Law Practice
Mar. 2, 2016
Must we interpret everything said in a courtroom?
To say that "interpreting everything that's being said" is an "established interpreting standard" is quite a stretch, to say the least. By Hiram Torres
Hiram Torres
Interpreter
Alameda County Superior Court
Hiram is a state and federally certified court interpreter and a former member of the Judicial Council's Court Interpreters Advisory Panel.
An email from the California Federation of Interpreters (CFI) sent last October asked its members, myself included, to report certain "language access incidents," among them: "Violations of established interpreting standards, such as not providing team interpreting or prohibiting interpreters from interpreting everything that's being said." (Emphasis added.) Since defendants and relatives of minors cannot "prohibit" anythi...
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