Thursday, 12 July 2012

Donoghue v Stevenson eat your heart out!

I am editing a legal textbook about product recall and safety. I am now in the 'Argentina' chapter, written by a lawyer whose first language is Spanish. His English is 'not good'. And I have to do 20,000 words a day of this for the next month !!!!! Amusing cases in Argentina though!

For example. Donoghue v Stevenson eat your heart out!

Argentinian lawyer: Anyway, it is worth mentioning that in a recent precedent, a judge ordered a beer company to pay AR$ 2,000,000 (400,000 approximately) to a consumer who find a package of an intimate gel inside the bottle of beer.[1]     

My rewrite

but note here that in a recent case, a court ordered a beer producer to pay AR$ 2,000,000 (400,000 approximately) to a consumer who found a pack of intimate gel inside a bottle of beer.[2]     

stopped short of typing the word ‘lube’- !!!!


[1] Juzgado de 1a Instancia en lo Civil y Comercial de 5a Nominación de Córdoba, 23/03/2011, “Teijeiro ó Teigeiro, Luis Mariano c. Cervecería y Maltería Quilmes Sy G.” AR/JUR/12898/2011.
[2] Juzgado de 1a Instancia en lo Civil y Comercial de 5a Nominación de Córdoba, 23/03/2011, “Teijeiro ó Teigeiro, Luis Mariano c. Cervecería y Maltería Quilmes S