Textos para la traducción especializada para la carrera de Derecho

1. Resumen
2. Text 1:. A Chinese
   Revolution
3. Text 2: Contempt of
   Court
4. Text 3:
   Bribery
5. Text 4: Waste not, want
   not
7. Text 6:
   Defences
8. Text 7:
   Independence and Impartiality are better
   assured
9. Text 8:
   Creation vs. Application of the Law: Truth and
   Evidence
10. Text
    9:.Officers and Magistrales
11. Text
    10:.Growing Internacional Regulation
12. Text 11:.
    Evidence in Court
13. Text 12:. The
    Legal Policy behind the Decision and its
    Explanation
14. Text
    13:.Being Informed on a Daily Base
15. Text 14:.Wolf
    Packs
16. Text 15:
    Infanticide
17. Text 16:
    Prisoners of War
18. Text 17: Due
    Process of Law
19. Text 18:
    Business Goes Green
20. Glosario

Resumen

En la actualidad es de vital importancia que todos los
graduados universitarios alcancen un nivel intermedio en la
asignatura de Inglés,
lo que incluye el dominio de
técnicas de traducción y traducción de textos
acordes a su especialidad. Es por ello, que esta monografía incluye textos de
traducción para la carrera de Derecho así como un
glosario de los
términos claves y palabras de difícil
comprensión para dicha carrera. Este trabajo ha
sido utilizado satisfactoriamente en la Universidad de
Granma proporcionándole una guía tanto para
profesores como para estudiantes, con el objetivo de
lograr un buen desenvolvimiento e impartición de la
asignatura Inglés con Fines Profesionales al no contar con
este tipo de bibliografía en cursos
anteriores.

TEXT – 1: A
CHINESE REVOLUTION

One of the many changes that has taken place in china over the
last few years is a change in television news programmes. Since
the communist party came to power in 1949, all newspapers,
television, and radio programs
have existed to promote the party’s point of view. Until a
few years ago, reporters were not allowed to publish stories
about social injustice or the mistakes of officials. But now this
has changed. Today china has 780 regional TV stations, all of
which have become obsessed with the capitalist idea of attracting
as many viewers as possible. Beijing TV, for example, last week
had an audience of over 7 million when Xu Tao, their 26 year old
crime reporter, managed to interview a notorious rapist. Xu
Tao’s ability to get exciting news stories always has
impressed her station manager. "Last year she won the title of
News Reporter of the Year", he says proudly. But the work can be
dangerous. Last month Xu made public the actions of a group of
unqualified "doctors". She went to their "clinic" as a patient,
using a mini-camera to photograph what was happening there. Since
then she has received a number of death threats. "I have been
threatened many times", she says fearlessly, "but bad must not be
allowed to overcome good".

TEXT – 2:
CONTEMPT OF COURT

It’s a technical expression which embraces a
variety of acts of disobedience to the court in opposition to its
authority or dignity and involving the elements of wilfulness.
Such acts are punishable by the court. Examples of conduct
generally held to constitute contempt are disorderly or insolent
behaviour committed during the siting of the court, in its
presence, and tending to interrupt its proceedings; unlawful
refusal to be sworn as a witness; disobedience to the
court’s mandates, orders and decrees.

Contempt of Court is classified as criminal and civil
contempt, depending upon whether the offence is treated as being
primarily against public justice, the penalty for which is
punitive or as being an invasion of private rights. When a
contempt is treated as a civil one, a fine by way on indemnity to
the injured party is often imposed with the alternative of
commitment if the fine is not paid. Generally one adjudged guilty
of civil contempt for not doing a required act will be released
from commitment upon performing the act required.

TEXT – 3:
BRIBERY

The public offence of bribery may be defined as the
offering of payment or giving of payment in some shape or form
that it may be a motive in the performance of functions for which
the proper motive ought to be a conscientious sense of duty. When
this is superseded by the sordid impulses created by the bribe, a
person is said to be corrupted, and thus corruption is term
sometimes held equivalent to bribery.

In English law, bribery of a privy counsellor or a juror
is punishable as a misdemeanour, as is the taking of a bribe by
any judicial or ministerial officer. The buying and selling of
public offices is also regarded at common law as a form of
bribery. The giving or receiving, promising, offering, soliciting
or agreeing to receive any gift, fee, loan or advantage by any
person as an inducement for any act or forbearance by a member
officer or servant of a public body in regard to the affairs of
that body is made a misdemeanour in England and Ireland and crime
offence in Scotland. Prosecution requires the consent of the
attorney or solicitor general in England or Ireland and of the
lord advocate in Scotland. Conviction renders liable to
punishment with or without hard labour for a term not exceeding
two years, and to a fine not exceeding 500 (steerling pounds), in
addition to or in lieu of imprisonment. On a second conviction he
may be judged forever incapable of holding public office.

In the United States, the offence of bribery is very
severely dealt with. In many states, bribery or the attempt to
bribe is made a felony, and is punishable with varying terms of
imprisonment, in some jurisdiction it may be with a period not
exceeding ten years.

TEXT – 4: WASTE
NOT, WANT NOT.

Disposing of the garbage we produce every day is a major
problem in cities around the world. In the United States, over
160 million tons of garbage are produced every year. Ten percent
is burned, and the rest is put in landfills. But finding land for
new landfills is becoming more difficult.

A city that has solved this problem in an unusual way is
Machida in Tokyo, Japan. They have developed a totally new
approach to garbage disposal. The key to the operation is public
cooperation. Families must divide their garbage into six
categories:

(1)- Garbage that can be easily burned (that is,
combustible garbage), such as kitchen and garden
trash.

(2)- Non-combustible garbage, such as small electronical
appliances, plastic tools, and plastic toys.

(3)- Products that are poisonous or that cause
pollution, such as batteries and fluorescent lights.

(4)- Bottles and glass containers that can be
recycled.

(5)- Metal containers that can be recycled.

(6)- Large items, such as furniture and
bicycles.

The items in categories (1) to (5) are collected on
different days. (Large items are only collected upon request)
then the garbage is taken to a center that looks like a clean new
office building or hospital. In side the center, special
equipment is used to sort and process the garbage. Almost
everything can be reused : garden or kitchen trash becomes
fertilizer; combustible garbage is burned to produce electricity;
metal containers and bottles are recycled; and old furniture,
clothing, and other useful items are cleaned, repaired, and
resold cheaply or given away, the work provides employment for
handicapped persons and gives them a chance to learn new
skills.

Nowadays, officials from cities around the world visit
Machida to see whether they can use some of these ideas and
techniques to solve their own garbage disposal
problems.