The table below gives rates per 1,000 words (or characters) of each foreign or English language source text. Because each language can be translated into or from English, into rates and from rates are given for each group of languages. Each standard rate is followed by a rate for translating patent texts and by our minimum charge.

	Rate into English £				Rate from English £
	Standard	Patent	Minimum		Standard	Patent	Minimum
French, Italian, Spanish	89	108	35		115	139	40
German	102	125	35		115	143	40
Portuguese	97	118	35		120	150	45
Danish, Dutch, Norwegian,Swedish	104	128	40		147	179	50
Polish, Russian	112	138	50		120	166	45
Albanian, Bulgarian, Estonian, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Serbo-Croat, Ukrainian	112	138	50		135	166	65
Czech, Slovak	147	182	50		120	166	45
Finnish	147	182	50		133	166	65
Chinese†, Japanese†	110	138	60		165	206	65
Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, Turkish	144	180	60		165	206	65
Bengali, Farsi, Gujarati, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu	150	184	75		179	224	85
Indonesian, Kurdish, Malay, Tagalog	158	198	80		194	243	85
Korean†, Thai†	248	310	80		248	310	85

Effective from 1st January 2008

†Per 1,000 Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Thai characters

Our rates include printing your translation on paper and sending it to you by email and/or fax, post, or DX.  VAT is excluded. We may decline to translate a text. We may charge more if it is hand-written or has poor legibility. We can usually format to your requirements.  Our standard and patent rates include check-reading each translation against its source text, when it reaches our office, for a maximum of five minutes per page.

Variations.  Add 12.5% to our standard rate if you opt for secure translating which includes procedures to ensure secrecy – either an undertaking binding HLL and an undertaking binding the translator or a Deed of Confidentiality executed by the translator and by HLL.  Both stipulate the transmission of the text and the return of the translation (on paper and/or disc) together with all final and draft copies of each by Special or Recorded Delivery Post and the erasure of all relevant, computer-stored material.

Add 80% to our rates if you would like two independent translations of your text, each of them check-read.