Certified translations for UK courts
The CPR, FPR and tribunal rules on translated evidence, statements of truth, and what opposing counsel can challenge.
How translated evidence is admitted in English and Welsh courts and tribunals, the certification and statement-of-truth rules, and document guides for contracts, powers of attorney and foreign judgments.
A court reads a translation differently from a caseworker. The Home Office wants to know what a document says; a court also wants to know whether the translation can be relied on when the other side disputes it, which is why the translator must be named, contactable and willing to stand behind the work with a statement of truth.
These guides set out the procedure rules once, in the courts guide, and then cover the settings where translated evidence comes up most: family proceedings, immigration appeals, foreign judgments, and the legal instruments that most often need translating. The last guide is a one-page reference and certificate template for solicitors who instruct translations regularly.
Official Translations: certified translations from £29.95 per page, delivered within 24 hours, accepted by the Home Office, UKVI, and UK courts.
For contested matters, ask at the outset for a translator who can give a witness statement if the translation is challenged. It costs nothing extra to arrange early and is difficult to arrange late.