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Translating legal documents from Arabic into English Department of English Introduction There are many problems face translators especially Legal translators One of these problems related to vocabularies of legal translation Legal translation is a type of technical translation which related to law and legal process Also it refers to the legal texts The aim of the study how pragmatic and functional considerations are important in legal translation and should be taken into account when determining translation strategies It will argue that legal translation involves more than terminological and syntactic issues Legal translation needs the services of an expert that is highly knowledgeable in legal terms and practices Mohammad Alawi and Fakhouri 2010 explained The approaches to legal translation have been mostly oriented towards the preservation of the letter rather than effective rendering in the target language legal texts having always been accorded the status of sensitive texts and treated as such
