Generally, UK tax-domiciled & Vienna resident. Published poet, Anthology, Regency Press London and New York, 1968.
Also a keen critic of sloppy legal thinking, including but not confined to gaffes made and clangers dropped by ProZ regulars such as: 'a Roman Civil-Law Notary {doubling as a 'sworn translator'} is the same as an English Common-Law Notary & a debtor-novation agreement is the same as a contract renewal' and even by a self-professed relative of a famous English judge: 'the meaning of land doesn't include the buildings thereon'.
Born British into a military RAF+WAAF Franco-Gibraltarian & Austro-family, with an ex-Life Guards/London Met Police & private investigator step-father - all diversifying, post-demob, into gallego-staffed hotel & catering.
Equity = Chancery Barrister called to the Bar with an ENG/British Commonwealth Bar Exam Hons. 'Learnèd in the Law Degree' & out of retirement to help with terminology.
Logical reasoning tests - with a focus on lateral thinking - passed to progress to law finals. Once 'reading' for the Scottish Bar (Faculty of Advocates in Edinburgh).
Seasoned UK, US, Austrian, Spanish & *Italian* conveyancer-cum-probate practitioner, including advising on Scots Letters of Confirmation. Former Commissioner for Oaths.
Qualifications in England & Wales Solicitors(') Book-Keeping & A/Cs + post-Call Forensic Accounting for Barristers. Accounting Technician Course at BPP (Uni.) Tax & Law School Holborn, Central London.
Education:
O-Level Ancient Greek / A-Level LAT+FRE (Oral Prize)+GER+ENG at Epsom College, Surrey. Exchange student at (my cousins') Lycée Alexandre Dumas de Saint Cloud, Acad. de Versailles, Paris.
Berlitz School German diploma from Munich-Schwabing & Spanish from Berlitz when on Av. d’Alemanya aka Via Alemania, Palma de Majorca.
Int'l, AUT, DEU & SPA law taken at Vienna Uni. + Senior Status (postgrad. Law) LLB London Uni. External (now Int'l Program).
CPD: UK ITI (Inst. of Transl. & Interpreting) Paris Bourse FR/EN workshops 1990-95. Notarial-led (CH) FR, SP & DE seminars, Central London (Law Soc. on Chancery Lane & ITI on Russell Square).
PCL (Polytechnic of Central London, Holborn - now Westminster Uni.) Legal Norwegian/English weekend seminar.
Goethe Inst. Kensington DE Law Terminology one-term evening course.
2008 pre-Brexit: Anglo-Italian Law Conference in Rome of Italian Bar Associations hosting the European Circuit of the Bars of England & Wales, Ireland & Scotland.
Training & vocational:
Gap-year & student-job export clerking in London at Harrods of Knightsbridge, John Lewis on Oxford St. & pre-Wales: Morganite Carbon (tractionware rods) Factory on Battersea Wharf.
Uni. Swedish subsid-lingo, sandwich-course stint/ 'industrial placement' abroad: Göteborgs Bank (Götebank) foreign exchange clerk in Sweden at T-Centralen railway terminal in Stockholm.
Uni. German major-lingo stint aka 'industrial placement' abroad:
IP Rechtspraktikant (law trainee) in Hamburg, freelance translating for the Max Planck Int'l Law Inst. on Mittelweg & signalling the start of a regular commute 1970-1990 to East & West Berlin / the ex-GDR.
2 years(') Articles split between Solicitors Clifford-Turner & Co.'s City HQ & its Madrid bufete de abogados (de empresa) as a Paris satellite on Goya. UCM Facultad de Derecho researcher.
Time spent in sets of - Inner Temple insolvency & Devereux reinsurance law - Barristers' & Judges' Chambers, both Central London.
England & Wales CCJ/County Court Judgment - Scottish Sheriff Court Judgement in civil debt cases. High Ct. bills of sale/chattel mortgage reg. AUT Bezirks- & DEU Amtsgericht debt-recovery cases.
'European Intelligence' FT spin-off, Euro-business & corporate mag. editor, proverbially 'disgusted' of Tunbridge Wells of Green + Agri-Europe, last in Brussels (Belgium: turn North-East in France for 'French' fries).
Linguistic range & unemployability:
Languages include a smattering of 'disco-dancing', night-school, Linguaphone & Teach Yourself Polish, Russian, Finnish, Hungarian & (Bukov/wina = Ukrainian + Moldavian family) Romanian.
Arm(s) twisted inhouse - at a Central London Notarial-cum-T&I Office - into NL, Afrik. & 'Belgian Flemish', ICE/FAR, Latin of Welsh Uni. Degree Certs., (Andorra) CAT, ITA & POR.
Unavailable for T&I or allied work, incl. surveys or tel. canvassing, save for 'Counsel's Opinions' on pig's ears = suspected professionally negligent translations or Turkish (!) etc. court (mis-)interpreting.
