Forensic linguistic services
For years, Clinter has offered forensic linguistic services, including expert linguistic analyses in civil and commercial procedures, in accordance with the provisions of Article 244 of the Civil Procedure Act.
These services are provided by Sworn Translator-Interpreters appointed by the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who possess in-depth legal knowledge and at least a Bachelor’s Degree in Law.
Proven experience
CLINTER was picked by the Spanish Ministry of Justice to provide the official English translations for the general public, and these include the Spanish Criminal and Civil Codes, which are available on its website.
What do forensic linguistic services consist of?
Forensic linguistics or legal linguistics is a branch of applied linguistics that studies the connections between language and the judicial and legal spheres.
Within the expanded definition of forensic linguistics, this discipline covers all areas of language and law that are interconnected, and may be divided into three fundamental areas: language of the law, court language and language in evidence.
The more restrictive and commonly used definition refers exclusively to linguistic analysis, i.e., the use of texts as evidence in courts.
When are forensic linguistic services needed?
They are most frequently required in the civil and commercial fields, when issuing opinions regarding the accuracy of a translated contract or articles of association in the event that there are two or more contradictory versions.
It also includes other services such as linguistic profiling, author identification of a text or analysing recordings to determine whether they may have been prepared or agreed upon beforehand, transcription of recordings, detecting plagiarism, copyright, trademark and patent infringement, identity theft, and analysing ambiguities in a text to determine their possible consequences, as well as litigation for defamation and determining whether consumer and user rights are infringed by product labelling.