Criminal law translation questions/Fragen zur Übersetzung von Strafrechtsbegriffen
am 05.03.2006 von Transblawg
I reopened the comments on the February 12th entry, Questions on translating criminal law. That entry just collected some questions that had come up in a criminal law translation seminar in Frankfurt. Now I have received a further comment and posted it as anonymous (it came from a criminal court in Germany). But maybe the discussion should continue here.
Here are some queries from the comment: how to translate the following. I will come back to this in the next couple of days, I hope, when not dealing with Ludwig der Bärtige.
Anklageprinzip
Offizialprinzip
Ermittlungsgrundsatz
Grundsatz der Mündlichkeit
Grundsatz der Unmittelbarkeit?
Legalitätsprinzip: I objected slightly to mandatory prosecution because it sounds as if everyone had to be prosecuted.
Suggestion in comment: mandatory investigation, because there has been some erosion of the term.
yes, I agree, mandatory investigation sounds good. It was the word mandatory we were considering in the seminar, not prosecution. The reason I didn’t like mandatory prosecution was because it sounded as if the public …
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