Certified Translation Services Across the UK
Find the certified translation service for your town: the courts, register offices, councils and universities that receive documents there, the languages spoken locally, and a signed, stamped translation delivered by email, with same-day completion available for most documents when payment is confirmed before 4pm on a working day.
DHCTranslations prepares certified translations for clients in every town listed below, across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Choose your location to see the courts, register offices, councils and universities that receive documents there, the languages requested most often, and what a certified translation costs.
Your document is translated by a qualified human translator and carries that translator's name, signature and the date of translation, so the office receiving it can see who stands behind the work. Translators are matched to your language pair and to the type of document, and many live and work in the region they cover, which is why the marginal notes on a birth certificate, the exhibit numbering in a court bundle and the grading scale on a transcript are familiar rather than novel.
If the translation is for a court or tribunal, it helps to mention that when you order, as those filings need a signed Statement of Truth, which is a separate service priced to the requirements of the case. Finished work is emailed to you as a PDF in whatever format the receiving office requires, and tracked hard copies can be posted to any address in the UK or overseas, including directly to the court, council or embassy once you have confirmed where it should go.
Every town on this page is served the same way: documents are sent in electronically and the certified PDF comes back by email, so nothing depends on reaching an office. If you searched for a translator near you, how a remote order works explains the process from upload to delivery.
East Midlands
5 locationsDerby, Leicester, Northampton and Nottingham anchor the East Midlands group, a set that mixes a large footwear and logistics base with two universities and a busy county court network.
East of England
12 locationsEleven pages cover the east, from Cambridge, Luton, Norwich and Peterborough to the Essex and Hertfordshire towns: Basildon, Chelmsford, Colchester, Ipswich, Southend-on-Sea, St Albans and Watford. Research institutes, an airport corridor and county administration all generate paperwork that needs certification.
London
14 locationsThe capital has its own hub plus thirteen borough pages, chosen for the highest non-English main-language shares in the city, and filings there run through borough councils and inner London courts. Romford in Havering and the other boroughs without their own page are covered from the London hub, with documents uploaded and returned as certified PDFs.
North East England
6 locationsSix pages cover the north east: Newcastle upon Tyne and Sunderland alongside Gateshead, Middlesbrough, Stockton-on-Tees and Hartlepool. A smaller caseload than the national average, but with steady demand from NHS registration and university admissions.
North West England
13 locationsTwelve pages cover Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Lancashire and Cheshire, the largest group outside London and the one with the widest spread of language pairs.
Northern Ireland
6 locationsBelfast carries the Northern Ireland coverage, where the courts are administered by the Northern Ireland Courts and Tribunals Service rather than HMCTS, and registration goes through Belfast City Hall. The rest of the province is served remotely from the same page.
South East England
15 locationsThirteen pages cover the south east, from Oxford, Reading, Slough and Milton Keynes to Portsmouth, Southampton, Brighton and the Kent and Sussex towns, a group that between them handles a heavy share of student and family documents.
Wales
3 locationsCardiff, Newport and Swansea carry the Welsh coverage, where bilingual Welsh and English records sit alongside Polish, Arabic and Somali paperwork.
West Midlands
11 locationsTen pages cover the region, with Birmingham, Coventry, Wolverhampton, Walsall, Dudley, Solihull, West Bromwich, Stoke-on-Trent, Telford and Worcester all feeding documents into the same few courts.
Yorkshire and the Humber
12 locationsTen pages cover Leeds, Sheffield, Bradford, Hull, York and the South Yorkshire towns, a region where Polish, Urdu and Romanian certificates arrive every week.
Where the court and language data comes from
Reviewed 22 October 2026.
Frequently asked questions
DHCTranslations takes certified translation orders from any UK postcode without an appointment. Upload a scan through the secure portal and a qualified translator returns a signed, stamped PDF, with same-day completion available when the order is confirmed before 4pm on a weekday. The pages below show which court, council and register office each area files with.
England and Wales are covered town by town on this page, and the service itself reaches every postcode by secure upload. Scotland has twenty pages, from Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Dundee and Inverness to the sheriff court towns, and Belfast carries the Northern Ireland page.
A single certificate starts from £40 per document, and longer files are priced from £0.09 per word after 400 words. A Statement of Truth for court filings, notarisation and apostille steps are quoted separately, because each depends on the document and the deadline rather than the address. A fixed quote is issued before translation begins.
Yes. The certification is identical wherever you are: a signed, stamped translation naming the translator with the date of translation. What changes is the office your document goes to, so tell us where it is being filed and the wording is prepared for that office.
There is no branch to visit, but that rarely matters: everything travels by email, with your finished translation returned as a PDF in the format the receiving office accepts. Tracked hard copies can be posted to any address in the UK or overseas, and our translators are based across the UK, many in the regions they cover.
Geography does not change the turnaround: most orders can be completed the same day when payment is confirmed before 4pm on a working day. Anything confirmed later, or on a weekend or bank holiday, starts the next working day. Only the courier time for hard copies varies by address.
Yes. Court bundles carry a signed Statement of Truth, while council and register office paperwork is certified and stamped. It is worth mentioning when you order if the translation is for a court or tribunal, since the Statement of Truth is a separate, chargeable addition, and the receiving office still decides what it will accept.
Polish and Romanian appear on nearly every town page, followed by Arabic, Urdu, Portuguese and Punjabi, with Lithuanian, Bengali, Farsi and Chinese close behind. Individual language pages cover the pairs we translate most, and any other pair can be quoted on request.
Yes, all three. Wales is covered, with Cardiff, Newport and Swansea carrying their own pages. Scotland has twenty pages and Northern Ireland has Belfast, so every part of the UK has a page naming the courts, register office and council that receives documents there.
Open the town you are filing in, or the nearest one that has a page. Each lists the courts, register office, council and universities for that place, plus the languages requested locally. If your town is not listed, send the document and the receiving office and we will confirm the wording and price.
Still have a question?
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Not sure which page covers your town?
Send the document and the office you are filing with. The quote confirms the certification wording, the deadline and whether notarisation is needed.