JUSTice in CASEs
Polish and English Legalese: A Case by Case Overview
Every legal language boasts catchy, intriguing, and emotion arousing phrases that even those not in the legal profession recognize. The real problem starts when one begins to analyze those phrases’ true meaning, use, and translatability into another language and legal system. JUST in CASEs is not a manual, but rather a guide for examining the language of authentic legal cases and documents taken directly from legal offices and courtrooms. It aims at discovering both the possibilities and impossibilities of equivalency between common and civil law, and at showing how to navigate the meanders of legal texts to catch the slightest nuances of their meaning and use. Everything in the book comes from credible Polish and English sources, authentic legal problems, and actual situations documented through properly anonymized paperwork, and adapted for learning and teaching purposes.
