When translating legal documents, what specific challenges arise from the different legal systems and how do you account for them in your translation?

Translating legal documents presents unique challenges stemming from the inherent differences between legal systems. Legal systems, such as common law (used in the UK and US) and civil law (used in Russia and much of continental Europe), operate on different principles, leading to disparities in legal concepts, terminology, and structures. One key challenge is the lack of direct equivalents for legal terms. For example, a 'trust' in common law has no exact counterpart in the Russian legal system. Instead of a direct translation, the function and consequences of a 'trust' mus....