Translating Administrative Decisions
Deadline for registration: November 28, 2025
This webinar is intended for generalists who would like to become more confident in translating decisions rendered by administrative tribunals. During the first half of the webinar, you will briefly learn about various provincial and federal administrative tribunals, for example, the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada or the CNESST, their function and jurisdiction and the laws and regulations governing them. You will also learn how to perform relevant legal research to help you translate decisions rendered by these tribunals. During the second half of the webinar, you will discuss and translate an actual decision rendered by an administrative tribunal.
It is highly recommended that participants take “Introduction to Legal Translation” before taking this workshop.
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Sabine Biasi is a certified translator for various language combinations and has over thirty years of experience in translation, including more than twenty-five years in legal translation from French to English. Fifteen years ago, after working as an in-house legal translator in the linguistic services departments of two major law firms in Montreal for more than ten years, she started her own legal translation business. Her clients include many of Canada’s largest law firms, the legal services departments of several large corporations and various government agencies. Since 2020, she has also been a subject matter expert and course lecturer in the Graduate Diploma in Legal Translation program at McGill University. Sabine holds an honours degree in French-to-English translation from Concordia University (co-op option) and a master’s degree in international business law from the University of Liverpool School of Law, both obtained with great distinction. She is a member of both OTTIAQ and CALT, the Canadian Association of Legal Translators. Since September 2019, she has served on the board of directors of CALT, where she is in charge of training, with a particular interest in the next generation of professional legal translators.
