Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
inflation législative
English translation:
legislative inflation
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Lara Barnett
Mar 13, 2012 00:08
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inflation législative
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Finance (general)
Presentation of legal mgt consultancy
This appears at the beginning of a presentation document explaining the services provided to SMEs by a legal management consultancy. The full text reads:
"Un certain nombre de freins empêchent aujourd’hui les dirigeants d’entreprises de petite ou moyenne taille d’appréhender pleinement la dimension juridique au cœur de leur stratégie de développement : inflation législative, complexité croissante de leur environnement juridique, technicité du droit et de sa pratique, difficultés à choisir son avocat, coût des prestations juridiques."
I have attempted:
"These days a fair number of obstacles can prevent Directors of small and medium-sized companies from fully comprehending the legal aspects of their development strategy. Such aspects include ***??? ***???, the growing complexities of their legal environment, legal technicalities and practice, the difficulties of choosing a lawyer, and legal costs. "
All I can think of for my phrase is "legislative inflation" but I have no idea if this means anything.
"Un certain nombre de freins empêchent aujourd’hui les dirigeants d’entreprises de petite ou moyenne taille d’appréhender pleinement la dimension juridique au cœur de leur stratégie de développement : inflation législative, complexité croissante de leur environnement juridique, technicité du droit et de sa pratique, difficultés à choisir son avocat, coût des prestations juridiques."
I have attempted:
"These days a fair number of obstacles can prevent Directors of small and medium-sized companies from fully comprehending the legal aspects of their development strategy. Such aspects include ***??? ***???, the growing complexities of their legal environment, legal technicalities and practice, the difficulties of choosing a lawyer, and legal costs. "
All I can think of for my phrase is "legislative inflation" but I have no idea if this means anything.
Proposed translations
(English)
| 3 +5 | legislative inflation |
aricb
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| 4 | increasing legislation |
Nikki Scott-Despaigne
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| 3 | legislative overdrive |
cc in nyc
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| 3 | balooning/snowballing [quantities of] legislation |
B D Finch
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Change log
Mar 13, 2012 00:24: Laurel Clausen changed "Term asked" from "legislative inflation" to "inflation législative"
Mar 13, 2012 08:43: writeaway changed "Field (specific)" from "Law (general)" to "Finance (general)"
Proposed translations
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51 mins
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legislative inflation
inflation législative refers to the proliferation of laws over time, which makes it increasingly harder to identify all the laws that apply in a given situation.
"legislative inflation" seems to be a common translation for this term:
http://www.linguee.fr/francais-anglais/traduction/inflation ...
Alternatively, you might say "the proliferation of laws over time", "an ever-expanding legal code" or something similar.
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Note added at 57 mins (2012-03-13 01:05:25 GMT)
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Some examples of "legislative inflation" in context:
"The term 'legislative inflation' is widely used by various European legal and political scientists and means an increase in the amount of legal norms. Issuing a considerable number of new legal norms consequently raises the question about the balance between the quality and quantity of the work of the legislator(s)." http://versita.metapress.com/content/j09nkl7467714hk5/
"The country suffers from what Jean-Louis Debré, president of the National Assembly, calls 'legislative inflation'. The yearly statute books have grown in size from 1020 pages in 1989 to 1600 in 2002." http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/10/2/124.full
"Even more generally, legal security postulates that the normative authority not abuse its function, by which I mean that it not exercise its authority unthinkingly in making laws. I am referring here to legislative inflation, the first consequence of which is to present legal practitioners with the alternatives of knowing everything about a little or a little about everything. And since citizens cannot resort to specialists all the time, they act in ignorance of the law." http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/pi/icg-gci/norm/index.html
"legislative inflation" seems to be a common translation for this term:
http://www.linguee.fr/francais-anglais/traduction/inflation ...
Alternatively, you might say "the proliferation of laws over time", "an ever-expanding legal code" or something similar.
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Note added at 57 mins (2012-03-13 01:05:25 GMT)
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Some examples of "legislative inflation" in context:
"The term 'legislative inflation' is widely used by various European legal and political scientists and means an increase in the amount of legal norms. Issuing a considerable number of new legal norms consequently raises the question about the balance between the quality and quantity of the work of the legislator(s)." http://versita.metapress.com/content/j09nkl7467714hk5/
"The country suffers from what Jean-Louis Debré, president of the National Assembly, calls 'legislative inflation'. The yearly statute books have grown in size from 1020 pages in 1989 to 1600 in 2002." http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/10/2/124.full
"Even more generally, legal security postulates that the normative authority not abuse its function, by which I mean that it not exercise its authority unthinkingly in making laws. I am referring here to legislative inflation, the first consequence of which is to present legal practitioners with the alternatives of knowing everything about a little or a little about everything. And since citizens cannot resort to specialists all the time, they act in ignorance of the law." http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/pi/icg-gci/norm/index.html
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thank you."
1 hr
legislative overdrive
Let's pump it up a little! Even though this term is not so much coined. ;-))
6 hrs
Nikki Scott-Despaigne
Native in English
Psychologist, Court-certified legal
Native in: English
Works in: French to English
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162
increasing legislation
"Legislative inflation" is quite understandable although it does get fewer hits than "growing legislation" or "increasing legislation". You already make use of "growing" in the part which follows, as the complexities too are on the increase. You could use that to your advantage :
Such aspects include "the growing/incraasing legislation and complexities of their legal environment..."
and forget the idea of using "inflation" or of using two different words for the same idea at all.
By the way, you might like to consider something different for "appréhender" where you have used "...from fully comprehending...".
Suggestion : get a complete grasp on
This might seem a little familiar in register but I think it conveys the idea of "appréhender" quite well here. (Might think differently later on today, but that is what comes to mind now!)
Such aspects include "the growing/incraasing legislation and complexities of their legal environment..."
and forget the idea of using "inflation" or of using two different words for the same idea at all.
By the way, you might like to consider something different for "appréhender" where you have used "...from fully comprehending...".
Suggestion : get a complete grasp on
This might seem a little familiar in register but I think it conveys the idea of "appréhender" quite well here. (Might think differently later on today, but that is what comes to mind now!)
12 hrs
balooning/snowballing [quantities of] legislation
If you want something more colloquial.
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