Spanish term
Mexico
Academic/corporate/literary 25 yrs
Native in: English (Variants: British, UK, Irish, US, Australian, Canadian, New Zealand, Scottish) , Spanish 
Works in: Spanish to English, English to Spanish, French to English
sin perjuicio de la responsabilidad
| 3 +4 | notwithstanding any responsibility* |
Giovanni Rengifo
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| 4 | A user may be held liable... |
philgoddard
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| 3 | without detracting from liability |
Adrian MM.
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Non-PRO (1): TechLawDC
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Proposed translations
Colombia
Traductores Oficiales Cali
Native in: Spanish
Works in: Spanish to English, English to Spanish, German to Spanish, and 2 more.
notwithstanding any responsibility*
In any event, the translation I'm providing is what I've often seen in standard legalese. I hope you'll find it useful.
United States
Six languages into flawless English
Native in: English
Works in: German to English, French to English, Spanish to English, and 4 more.
A user may be held liable...
I think it's as simple as that, and you don't need to dress it up in legalese. There's an increasing trend towards plain English in consumer documents like this.
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AllegroTrans
: Whilst this is not wrong I strongly disagree with transforming legalese in a source text to "plain English" just because you like it and see it as a trend; legal in - legal out
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I know some translators think that way, and regard legal documents as holy writ. But our job is to produce documents that ordinary people can understand, and no one says things like "notwithstanding" any more.
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Austria
Retd.T&I, Barrister & Austro-Advokat
Native in: English (Variants: British, Scottish)
Works in: Spanish to English, English to Spanish, French to English, and 5 more.
without detracting from liability
A non-pro question for those unconversant with detractions.
Otherwise, Plain Legal English is, in my experience, usually advocated - as a diversionary tactic - by second-rate English judges, bare-pass law students or law finals failures.
Related to Without detracting from the liability and obligations
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Andrew Bramhall
: " second rate,bare-pass law students or law finals failures" - autobiographical??
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