Videoconference and remote interpreting in criminal proceedings
By: Sabine Braun and Judith L. Taylor, editors
Publisher: Intersentia
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge, United Kingdom
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9781780680972
Subjects: Court interpreting and translating; Technological innovations; Conduct of court proceedings; Videoconferencing; Criminal procedure
Description: "In response to increasing mobility and migration in Europe, the European Directive 2010/64/EU on strengthening the rights to interpretation and translation in criminal proceedings has highlighted the importance of quality in legal translation and interpreting. At the same time, the economic situation is putting pressure on public services and translation/interpreting service providers alike, jeopardizing quality standards and fair access to justice. With regard to interpreting, the use of videoconference technology is now being widely considered as a potential solution for gaining cost-effective and timely access to qualified legal interpreters. However, this gives rise to many questions, including: how technological mediation through videoconferencing affects the quality of interpreting; how this is related to the actual videoconference setting and the distribution of participants; and ultimately whether the different forms of video-mediated interpreting are sufficiently reliable for legal communication. It is against this backdrop that the AVIDICUS Project (2008-11), co-funded by the European Commission's Directorate-General Justice, set out to research the quality and viability of video-mediated interpreting in criminal proceedings. This volume, which is based on the final AVIDICUS Symposium in 2011, presents a cross-section of the findings from AVIDICUS and complementary research initiatives, as well as recommendations for judicial services, legal practitioners and police officers, and legal interpreters"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Materials from the AVIDICUS project, EU Criminal Justice Programme Project JLS/2008/JPEN/037, 2008-2011.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The new European Directive on the rights to interpretation and translation in criminal proceedings  -- Caroline Morgan; title: Videoconferencing in criminal proceedings  -- Evert-Jan van der Vlis; title: Video-mediated interpreting : an overview of current practice and research  -- Sabine Braun and Judith L. Taylor; title: Video-mediated interpreting in criminal proceedings : two European surveys  -- Sabine Braun and Judith L. Taylor; title: AVIDICUS comparative studies, part I : traditional interpreting and remote interpreting in police interviews  -- Sabine Braun and Judith L. Taylor; title: AVIDICUS comparative studies, part II : traditional, videoconference and remote interpreting in police interviews  -- Katalin Balogh and Erik Hertog; title: AVIDICUS comparative studies, part III : traditional interpreting and videoconference interpreting in prosecution interviews  -- Joanna Miler-Cassino and Zofia Rybińska; title: The police interview using videoconferencing with a legal interpreter : a critical view from the perspective of interview techniques  -- Dirk Rombouts; title: Here or there? : An assessment of video remote signed language interpreter-mediated interaction in court  -- Jemina Napier; title: True-to-life requirements for using videoconferencing in legal proceedings  -- Ronald van den Hoogen and Peter van Rotterdam; title: Conference interpreting with information and communication technologies : experiences from the European Commission DG Interpretation  -- José Esteban Causo; title: Training in video-mediated interpreting in criminal proceedings : modules for interpreting students, legal interpreters and legal practitioners  -- Sabine Braun .. [et al.]; title: AVIDICUS : conclusions and implications  -- Ann Corsellis; title: Recommendations for the use of video-mediated interpreting in criminal proceedings -- Sabine Braun.