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	72	85	40		92	108	50
German	90	106	40		92	114	50
Portuguese	76	90	40		96	113	50
Danish, Dutch, Norwegian,Swedish	88	103	40		116	136	50
Polish, Russian, Ukrainian	92	108	40		100	118	50
Albanian, Bulgarian, Estonian, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Serbo-Croat, Slovene	92	108	50		108	127	60
Czech, Slovak	116	136	50		96	113	60
Finnish	118	138	50		126	149	60
Chinese†, Japanese†	88	103	60		128	150	70
Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, Maltese, Turkish	116	136	60		132	155	70
Bengali, Farsi, Gujarati, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu	120	141	60		144	170	70
Indonesian, Kurdish, Malay, Tagalog	128	150	80		156	183	90
Korean†, Thai†	200	235	80		200	235	90

Effective from 1st June 2010

†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.