Legal translation and sworn interpreting
across the whole province of Liège
For the lawyers, notaries and bailiffs of the Liège Court of Appeal district. Case documents, authentic deeds, cross-border estates. Translators and interpreters from the national register.
1 h
Priced quote in return
24 h
To secure a sworn interpreter
70+
Working languages
3
Court divisions covered
Your documents: legal & notarial
The Court of First Instance of Liège sits in Liège, but also in Huy and Verviers, and the Court of Appeal additionally covers the provinces of Namur and Luxembourg. The documents circulating here often come from Germany or the Netherlands, carrying their own legal system with them: that system is what has to be rendered, not just the words.
Court documents
Writs, submissions, judgments and appeal rulings intended for the courts of Liège, Huy or Verviers.
Contracts
Commercial contracts, general terms, leases, shareholder agreements and distribution agreements signed with a Dutch or German partner.
Notarial deeds
Sales, gifts, wills, marriage contracts and powers of attorney executed before a notary in the province.
Cross-border estates
Certificates of inheritance, inventories and estate papers from Italy, Turkey or Morocco, common among families of the Liège basin.
Corporate law
Articles of association, company register extracts, minutes of general meetings and share transfers, including for subsidiaries of Rhineland groups.
Legalisation at FPS Justice
We have the sworn translator's signature legalised. If your file also calls for an apostille, we tell you where to apply for it.
The way we handle the legal & notarial sector
The Liège district is a wide one: the Court of First Instance sits in Liège, but also in Huy and in Verviers, and the Court of Appeal covers a territory reaching well beyond the province. Add to that the files coming from across the border, with Maastricht thirty kilometres away and Aachen forty. A badly translated pleading cannot be undone on appeal: our legal translators convey the function of an institution rather than its name, because a court of first instance has no word-for-word counterpart everywhere.
Anything filed with a court or produced before a public authority goes to a translator listed in the Belgian national register of judicial experts: stamp, signature and statement of conformity. When that signature has to be legalised, we have it done at the FPS Justice. If the file is heading abroad, an apostille from the FPS Foreign Affairs is often needed on top; we do not obtain it in your place, but we tell you from the quote onwards whether it is required and where to request it.
Estate settlements make up a good share of these files. The Liège industrial basin took in Italian, Turkish and Moroccan families whose civil status records still move between two countries a generation or two later. Every file is covered by a confidentiality agreement, and we will gladly sign yours before a single document is sent over.
- Pleadings, summonses, judgments and appeal rulings
- Contracts, articles of association, shareholder agreements and terms of sale
- Notarial deeds, gifts, wills
- International estates and matrimonial property regimes
The situations where an interpreter changes the outcome
Our sworn interpreters work where a badly rendered sentence becomes part of the case file itself.
Hearings
Civil, criminal, family and youth chambers, in Liège as well as in the Huy and Verviers divisions.
Investigative measures
Court-appointed expert meetings, site visits and service of documents by bailiff throughout the district.
Notarial signings
Deeds of sale, division of estates and marriage contracts executed before a notary.
Mediation
Family or commercial mediation, amicable settlements and adversarial meetings between counsel.
A bilingual relative, or even a member of your own staff, cannot act as interpreter in proceedings: they have taken no oath, they are not neutral, and the opposing party can challenge what was said. In family matters, that objection is raised almost every time.
Four steps, one contact person
The same person follows your legal & notarial file from the quote request to the moment the document is handed over.
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You send us the document
A phone photo is enough, even a crooked one. For an interpreter, give us the date, the place and the language.
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Priced quote within 1 h
Amount, deadline and format: sworn when an authority requires it, standard when it does not. Free, with no obligation.
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The file goes to a specialist
A translator used to legal & notarial vocabulary drafts it, a reviser goes over the text afterwards.
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Handover or on-site assignment
File by email, stamped copy by registered post if the counter asks for it. The interpreter, meanwhile, joins you at the agreed time.
A submission to file or a hearing to cover?
Translators and interpreters listed on the national register, contractual confidentiality, priced quote within the hour.
Six reasons to trust us with a legal & notarial file
Registration checked file by file
We verify the entry on the national register of judicial experts for the exact language pair your case requires, not for the language in general.
Your confidentiality agreement first
We sign your firm's NDA before a single document is sent over, without arguing about the standard clauses.
A linguist from your field
A specialised file never goes to a generalist translator, not even when the deadline is tight.
Contractual confidentiality
A confidentiality agreement signed by everyone involved, servers located in the European Union, files deleted on request.
A price fixed in advance
What appears on the quote is what appears on the invoice: translation, revision and delivery included, with no line added along the way.
Travel included across the province
Our interpreters come to Liège, Huy, Verviers, Eupen or Waremme with no mileage charge.
Frequently asked questions
Can a document drafted in German be filed as it is?
No. Before a French-speaking Belgian court it must be accompanied by a sworn translation bearing the stamp, signature and statement of conformity of a translator listed on the national register. We keep your pagination and exhibit numbering, so that filing with the registry needs no reworking.
Do you travel to the Huy and Verviers divisions?
Yes. The Court of First Instance of Liège also sits there, and our interpreters go with no mileage charge, as anywhere in the province. Give us the time the case is called rather than the sitting time: the interpreter arrives beforehand and reports to the registry.
Can a file of several hundred pages fit a procedural deadline?
Count on roughly 2,000 words per working day per translator. Beyond that we split the volume between several legal linguists working from a shared glossary, with a final harmonisation pass so the terminology does not shift from one volume to the next.
An estate opened in the Netherlands or Germany, what is needed?
Sworn translation of the deeds, then legalisation of the translator's signature at FPS Justice, which we take care of. If the destination country has signed the Hague Convention, an apostille is required on top: it is applied for at FPS Foreign Affairs and we flag it in the quote. Allow 3 to 5 working days for those formalities.
Get your free quote within the hour
Send us your document or your date: firm price, precise deadline, no obligation. You then decide, with everything in front of you.