Court Interpreters and Fair Trials

• Main Author: Dingfelder Stone, John Henry (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Human rights.; Criminology.; Social justice.; Trials.; International criminal law.; Criminal justice, Administration of.; Natural language processing (Computer science).; Human Rights and Crime .; Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights.; Juries and Criminal Trials.; International Criminal Law .; Criminal Justice.; Natural Language Processing (NLP).

 Globalization has increased the number of individuals in criminal proceedings who are unable to understand the language of the courtroom, and as a result the number of court interpreters has also increased. But unsupervised interpreters can severely undermine the fairness of a criminal proceeding. In this innovative and methodological new study, Dingfelder Stone comprehensively examines the multitudes of mistakes made by interpreters, and explores the resultant legal and practical implications. Whilst scholars of interpreting studies have researched the prevalence of interpreter error for decades, the effect of these mistakes on criminal proceedings has largely gone unanalyzed by legal scholars. Drawing upon both interpreting studies research and legal scholarship alike, this engaging and timely study analyzes the impact of court interpreters on the right to a fair trial under international law, which forms the minimum baseline standard for national systems. 

 Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The Right to an Interpreter -- Chapter 3. Courtroom Interpreting -- Chapter 4. The Right to a Fair Trial -- Chapter 5. Interpreter Error and its Implications -- Chapter 6. Systemic Issues -- Chapter 7. Analysis -- Chapter 8. Conclusions and Proposals.