Legal Translation Cost in Ireland

Pricing

Every price on this page is the price you pay. Legal translation in Ireland is priced per page, not per document, not per hour, and not per line of parties involved. We do not add a certification fee, a handling fee, or a notary fee where notarisation is not required by the receiving authority.

What Legal Documents We Price at €39.99/page

The €39.99/page rate applies across the full legal document category. There is no separate rate for civil, commercial, criminal, corporate, or private legal work. The document below is priced the same as any other document at the same page count and language pair.

Court and tribunal documents. Judgments and rulings from the District Court, Circuit Court, High Court, Court of Appeal, and Supreme Court. Foreign judgments filed for recognition or enforcement in Ireland (Polish sądowe, French jugements, German Urteile, Spanish sentencias, Ukrainian судові рішення, and equivalents). Case files for the Chief State Solicitor. IPAT (International Protection Appeals Tribunal) bundles including country-of-origin material and personal statements. WRC (Workplace Relations Commission) complaint and response bundles. Family Court and childcare filings with the required schedule of documents.

Notarial and civil-status documents. Notarial acts in the source-country format (akt notarialny, act notarié, escritura pública, notarielle Urkunde, atto notarile). Powers of attorney (pełnomocnictwo, procuration, plena potestas, Vollmacht, procura). Affidavits sworn before a foreign notary. Statutory declarations made under the Statutory Declarations Act 1938. Marriage settlement deeds. Wills and probate documents including grants of representation from foreign jurisdictions.

Corporate and commercial documents. Articles of association and constitutions filed under the Companies Act 2014. Memoranda of association from pre-2014 filings still on record. Board minutes and shareholder resolutions. Commercial contracts (supply, distribution, licensing, franchising, employment) between parties in different jurisdictions. Arbitration awards under the Arbitration Act 2010 for enforcement in Ireland. Tenders and RFP responses translated for a Revenue-compliant filing. Letters of credit. Insurance policies. IP filings including patent claims and trademark abstracts for Intellectual Property Office of Ireland (IPOI).

Immigration and enforcement case files. Full case files for the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) and Immigration Service Delivery (ISD), including source-country identity documents, police clearance certificates, birth and marriage records, professional qualifications, and correspondence with foreign authorities.

What Determines the Price

Legal translation cost in Ireland comes down to five variables. Four are already priced above. The fifth (turnaround) is included in the €39.99/page rate for standard windows.

1. Page count. Counted as 250 source words or one A4 side, whichever gives the lower count. A one-side notarial certificate is one page. A dense 300-word A4 legal opinion is still one page. The second page only starts at 501 words. Court bundles are counted by translation pages, not by exhibit pagination.
2. Handwriting. Older notarial acts, hand-annotated court exhibits, and manually completed civil-registry records take longer to transcribe accurately and add €5/page for the affected pages only. Typed originals with a handwritten signature block do not attract the add-on.
3. Bundling and pagination. Where the translation is destined for a court exhibit, we can deliver it in court-exhibit format: signed and numbered pages, bound and tabbed to match the original exhibit index. This adds €15 flat for the whole order. Standard PDF certification with page numbering is included in the base rate.
4. Legalisation chain. Whether the translation needs only a Statement of Accuracy, or a Statement of Accuracy plus apostille from DFA Consular Section, or the embassy chain for a non-Hague country, depends on the receiving authority. This is a separate legal step, not a translation cost. We price it at the actual DFA or embassy rate, passed through at cost.
5. Turnaround. Standard turnaround (24 hours for 1 to 3 pages, 36 hours for 4 to 6 pages, 48 hours for 7 to 10 pages) is included in the €39.99/page rate. We do not operate an 'urgent' premium tier in Ireland. Documents over 10 pages are quoted individually with an agreed timeline the solicitor can commit to a client on.

Per-Page vs Hourly: Why We Quote Per Page

Solicitors in Ireland bill hourly, typically €200 to €350 per hour for legal analysis. It is the correct model for legal work: the deliverable is judgement, drafting, and advocacy, and the time each of those takes cannot be known in advance.

Certified translation is a different product. The deliverable is a translation of a document that already exists. The variable that matters is the volume of source text, not the time it takes to render. Per-page pricing lets a law firm quote the client accurately at intake, before the file has been assigned to a translator, and lets the client agree a fixed budget before the work begins.

Three consequences of that model:

• No scope creep on the invoice. The page count is fixed on the quote. If the translator finds the source runs to more pages than initially estimated, we come back with a revised quote before proceeding, not with a revised invoice after delivery.
• Confidentiality is included, not billed. The Statement of Accuracy, translator credentials, and confidentiality NDA are included in the €39.99/page. We do not attach a separate certification line item.
• Comparable to the source-country model. Certified translations in Poland, France, Germany, Spain and most EU jurisdictions are priced per page (or per standardised page unit). A Polish sworn translator (tłumacz przysięgły) prices per 1125-character page. A French traducteur assermenté prices per page. Per-page pricing is the norm your source-country translator uses; we align to it.

What 'Certified' Means for Court and Notary Use in Ireland

Ireland does not maintain a state sworn-translator register in the way Spain (TIJ MAEC), France, or Poland do. There is no Irish equivalent of the Spanish traductor jurado or the Polish tłumacz przysięgły. A certified translation for use in Irish courts, before a notary, at the Chief State Solicitor's office, at the WRC or IPAT, or at ISD, is certified by the translator or translation service directly under the following minimum requirements:

• An accurate and complete translation of the source document, with no omission or summarisation.
• A signed Statement of Accuracy from the translator or translation service.
• The translator's or provider's name (in our case, 'Tatkowski Certified Translator'), contact address, and date.
• A visible physical stamp on the hard copy where the receiving authority requires one.
• Where the document is a court exhibit, pagination and binding per Courts Service filing rules for the relevant court list.
• Where the source document originates outside Ireland and is destined for a foreign receiving authority, apostille under the 1961 Hague Convention (issued in Ireland by DFA Consular Section) or embassy legalisation for a non-Hague country.

Every certified translation we issue carries all applicable elements. The certification page shows 'Tatkowski Certified Translator' as the certifying name, our contact address, the date, and the stamp on hard-copy orders. This format has been accepted by every Irish court list, notary, tribunal and government department we have submitted to.

How to Order (Our Process)

Four steps from upload to certified legal translation delivered.

Honest Price Comparison

The Irish legal translation market runs from about €35/page at the low end (a freelance translator without a review step or a formal certification format) to €90/page at the high end (large legal-services agencies with fixed corporate overheads and account managers). Some Irish agencies quote hourly, which suits internal legal review work but confuses translation buyers who are pricing a document, not commissioning legal analysis. Our €39.99/page sits in the middle of the market with a review pass on every document and a certification format accepted by every Irish court list we have submitted to.

What you should be careful about when comparing legal translation quotes in Ireland:

• 'Starting from' pricing. A price shown as 'from €29/page' almost always has a minimum order fee, a certification surcharge, or a court-exhibit fee that appears at checkout. Ours is €39.99/page, add-ons published above.
• Per-document quotes without a page count. A '€180 for a court judgment' is fine if the judgment is four pages. If it runs to nine pages, the extra will be silently added on the invoice. We always show the page count on the quote before you pay.
• Notarisation surcharges. A certified translation for Irish courts or Irish notarial use does not require the translator to notarise. If a provider adds a €30 to €50 notary fee by default, ask what receiving authority requires it before agreeing.
• Turnaround claims on 15+ page bundles. 'Same-day' is meaningful for a two-page notarial extract. It is a marketing line on a 15-page cross-border acquisition bundle. Ask for the written turnaround commitment before the order is placed, not after.
• Hourly quotes disguised as flat. A quote of '€250 for a short legal document' with no page count is priced at the translator's estimated hour. If the document takes longer than estimated, the invoice can move up. Per-page pricing removes this risk.

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