The Impact of Legal Mistranslation: Three Examples

Mistranslation can derail trials, mislead the public, or deny justice. This article highlights three real-world cases where legal translation errors — human or machine-made — had serious consequences.

Honte Majeure

In a recent LinkedIn post, Miryam Seers, a lawyer-linguist and Chair of the ICC Canada Arbitration Committee, highlighted a rather egregious instance of mistranslation caused by the use of unrevised automatic translation by the French Ministry of Justice.