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Revista Linguagem e Lei
Guest Editor’s Introduction
Malcolm Coulthard & Sandra Hale
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brasil & UNSW, Australia
Two years ago we planned to publish a Special Issue on Translating and Interpreting in
Legal Contexts, however, the area is now so important and has become a major research
which this is the second – the rst, Volume 3.1, on Legal Translation guest-edited by
focus in so many countries, that we were able to produce not one but two volumes, of
Luciane Fröhlich, appeared in June 2016.
in both police stations and courtrooms and the di culties introduced by cost-saving
The authors come from ve continents and from jurisdictions with very di erent
kinds of interpreting provision. They discuss the problems of face-to-face interpreting
an interpreter located in a court-room along with the lawyers to an accused con ned
audio- and video-link technology, which may be used to link an interpreter located at
a distance to a face-to-face interview between a police o cer and a suspect, or to link
provided for all of the proceedings or only for the spells the accused spends in the witness
in prison. The topics of the articles range from provision – the question of who decides
whether there is a need for an interpreter and then whether interpretation should be
box and crucially if the interpreter is provided free – to: the training, evaluation and
As we write large numbers of people are eeing from Aleppo, many going to Turkey
accreditation of interpreters, the need for interpreters to work in teams for real-time
quality control and the advisability of compulsory audio-recording to order to facilitate
later checking of accuracy.
and a million refugees are struggling to settle into living in Germany. The need for legal
of interpreting services in our own countries.
interpreters is increasing exponentially, which makes this issue of the journal not only
timely but of even greater importance. The articles identify problems that all countries
need to address, but at the same time the authors provide examples of successes and
proposals for improvements which we can use to evaluate the quality of the provision
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil & UNSW, Australia
We hope you enjoy reading these papers as much as we did when editing them.
Malcolm Coulthard & Sandra Hale
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