This Legal Translation Arabic-English: Contracts, Legislation and Machine Translation Post-Editing session in Dubai runs from Monday 5 April to Friday 9 April 2027 (week 14, Q2 2027). It is the 2nd of 2 dates in Dubai in 2027, at a fee of 19,500 SAR, the same for each of them. Registration is open for this date. It is held in person at Five-star CBD venue.
DatesMonday 5 Apr – Friday 9 Apr 2027
Week14 of 2027
Duration5 days
Fee19,500 SAR
StatusOpen for registration
FormatIn person
VenueFive-star CBD venue
Programme overview
Introduction:
Legal translation errors between Arabic and English rarely look dramatic on the page, yet a shifted condition, an inconsistent defined term or an unchecked machine output can change who must do what and when. This Core Concept course builds a repeatable legal translation workflow for contracts, legislation and official documents, from source analysis and terminology equivalence to termbases, machine translation post-editing and structured revision. Participants work on authentic document types and leave with a Legal Translation Quality Pack: a bilingual termbase, a house style sheet and a quality assurance checklist.
Course Objectives:
Analyse a legal source text for its legal system, function and status as an authentic or convenience translation before translating it
Select full, partial or descriptive equivalents for legal terms that have no direct counterpart in the other legal system
Translate contract clauses, defined terms, contractual duties and conditions between Arabic and English without altering their legal effect
Translate articles of legislation, regulations and official documents while preserving numbering, cross-references and register
Post-edit machine translation and large language model output of legal text to a full human post-editing standard
Run a documented revision and quality check using an error typology, a termbase and a confidentiality routine
Target Audience:
Translators responsible for rendering contracts, regulations and official papers between Arabic and English
Legal staff responsible for checking bilingual versions of agreements and filings before signature or submission
Government and corporate language units responsible for translating circulars, decisions and official correspondence
Revisers and reviewers responsible for second-person checking of translated legal documents
Terminology and localisation staff responsible for glossaries, termbases and translation memories
Course Outline:
Day 1: Legal Translation Foundations and Legal Systems
Legal Translation Scope Map: Authentic Texts Versus Convenience Translations
Literal, Functional and Communicative Approaches Applied to Legal Source Texts
Legal Systems Comparison Grid: Civil Law, Common Law and Islamic Law Concepts
Terminology Equivalence Scale: Full, Partial and Zero Equivalents
Translator Self-Assessment Against a Legal Text Difficulty Matrix
Day 2: Translation Standards, Workflow and Terminology Management
ISO 17100 Translation Workflow: Translation, Check, Revision and Final Verification
Translation Brief and Client Specification Sheet for Legal Assignments
Bilingual Glossary Entry Design: Term, Definition, Context and Source
Termbase Build in a CAT Tool: Fields, Status and Forbidden Terms
Translation Memory Alignment of Previously Translated Agreements
Day 3: Translating Contracts, Legislation and Official Documents
Contract Translation Method: Recitals, Operative Clauses and Schedules
Defined Terms Consistency Log Across Arabic and English Versions
Rendering Contractual Duties, Permissions and Conditions Without Shifting Legal Effect
Legislation and Regulation Translation: Articles, Paragraphs and Cross-References
Court Judgments, Powers of Attorney and Notarial Deeds at Overview
Day 4: Register, Machine Translation, Quality Assurance and Ethics
Arabic-English Register, Sentence Length and Punctuation Conversion Rules
Machine Translation and Large Language Model Output: Risk Screening for Legal Text
ISO 18587 Full Post-Editing Procedure and Post-Editor Competences
MQM Error Typology: Accuracy, Fluency, Terminology and Style With Severity Levels
Confidentiality Controls, Data Handling in Online Tools and Translator Ethics Code
Day 5: Legal Translation Case Lab and Quality Pack
Services Agreement Case: Translating and Revising a Clause Extract
Regulation Case: Translating a Set of Articles With Internal Cross-References
Post-Editing Case: Correcting Machine-Translated Notarial Text Against the Termbase
Peer Revision Round Scored With an MQM-Based Scorecard
Return with a Legal Translation Quality Pack: a bilingual termbase, a house style sheet and a QA checklist ready for your next assignment
Use machine translation and large language models on legal text with a defined post-editing procedure instead of ad hoc correction
Catch inconsistent defined terms, shifted conditions and broken cross-references before a translated document is signed or filed
Compare translation practice with translators, legal staff and language units from law firms, public bodies, banks and energy companies
Conclusion:
Reliable legal translation between Arabic and English depends on a controlled process, not on fluency alone. The one week move from legal systems and terminology equivalence, through translation standards, termbases and translation memories, to translating contracts, legislation and official documents, and then to register, machine translation post-editing, error-based quality checks and confidentiality. The final day applies this workflow in a case lab and closes with a Legal Translation Quality Pack that participants reuse across their legal translation work.
Legal Translation Arabic-English: Contracts, Legislation and Machine Translation Post-Editing runs in Dubai over 5 days, with 2 upcoming dates in Dubai. The course fee is 19,500 SAR.
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