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Find-a-Linguist - Mrs Gwendolen CLAYTON

Name: Mrs Gwendolen CLAYTON BA (Oxon) FCIL CL
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Native language(s): ENGLISH
Language(s) of qualification: JAPANESE, GERMAN
CIOL number: 27781
Membership number (pre-Autumn 2016): 024382
Membership grade: Fellow
Membership status: Current
Chartered?: Yes
Chartered Linguist section(s): CL (Translator)
Telephone number: +44(0)7841 387 526
Subject Area: General, Legal, Translation
Levels: GCSE, Degree, Postgraduate, Can teach children
Statement: A city-trained commercial lawyer with 10+ years' experience in Tokyo, London and Zurich in commercial law, I now translate legal documents from Japanese and German into English. I studied Japanese at Oxford (1996, 2:1) and with a German mother I have been bilingual since childhood. I have been working as a freelance translator since 2008 but translation and interpreting, as well as the analysis and use of materials in these languages, has formed part of my work as a lawyer since 2000. I work with agencies and private clients on legal and academic texts and I have translated books and published articles. I have been teaching on the DPSI (Law) preparation course at London Metropolitan University since 2018.