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Job Title

English-Language Legal Translators

Employer

Court Of Justice Of The EU

Location

Luxembourg

Description

THE COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION regularly seeks to recruit English-language legal translators to assist with the increasing workload of its English-language Translation Unit in Luxembourg. The work of the unit consists in the translation into English of the Court's judgments and the Opinions of the Advocates General for publication in the European Court Reports, and of requests from national courts for preliminary rulings and other documents required for procedural purposes. To be eligible to perform these demanding duties, applicants must satisfy, in addition to the general conditions common to all the institutions, the following minimum requirements: Have successfully completed a suitable course in law (i.e. hold a degree in law or it equivalent awarded in the United Kingdom or Ireland) or have qualified as a barrister, advocate or solicitor in the United Kingdom or Ireland  Have a perfect command of English   Have a thorough Knowledge of French. Have a satisfactory knowledge of a third official language of the European Union. Have an interest in legal translation. Knowledge of other official languages of the European Union and relevant professional experience would be an advantage. Selection is by written test and interview. The test will consist in translation into English (without a dictionary) of a legal text drafted in French. Prior to recruitment, applicants are also required to pass a medical. Conditions of employment: Those selected to work as legal translators will be offered renewable temporary contracts. Starting grade and salary will depend on age and experience, but remuneration will be commensurate with the duties and responsibilities of these graduate positions in an international institution. If you are interested in this challenging work, please send your application, in the form of a CV with a covering letter explaining your suitability for the posts, to Mrs C Pinto at the following address: For further information please send an e-mail to the following address: recruitment.tradEN@curia.europa.eu. Working as English-language lawyer-linguist: https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2009-03/brochure_en.pdf.   Application details/procedure: https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo2_10298/fr/#EN.     Closing date: 16/03/2022.   Please note that this advertisement is being hosted by the Public Appointments Service on publicjobs.ie. The Public Appointments Service has no involvement in, or responsibility for, the recruitment and selection process or the terms and conditions which relate to this post.                          .

Date Added

976 days ago

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