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State courts must provide foreign-language interpreters under new rule -via...
In one court case in Michigan, a judge asked a man who had abused his non-English-speaking wife to interpret for her when she was asking for a personal protection order. In another, a child of parents...
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New Program Lets Interpreters Telecommute To Court–via Channel5.com
ALLATIN, Tenn. – Tuesday’s docket started off like any other. Sumner County General Sessions Judge James Hunter was before a packed crowd, but faced the same problem that plagues judges across the...
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Court interpreters picket amid talks on pay, work –via SF Gate
Evelyn Washington with the SEIU local yelled encouragement to the marchers in the rain Tuesday November 19, 2013 in San Francisco, Calif. Members of the California Federation of Interpreters union...
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Language barrier delays Merced sex-assault case — via Merced Sun-Star
MERCED — Language barriers and translation issues on Tuesday forced a Merced County judge to suspend a preliminary hearing for a man charged with sexually assaulting two college students. Juan J....
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Michigan courts seeking more interpreters after new policy requiring...
LANSING — The Michigan Supreme Court is seeking interpreters to provide translation services for court proceedings involving non-English speakers. Candidates will need to pass both a written English...
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Interpreter firm fined thousands — via Belfast Telegraph.co.uk
The Ministry of Justice withheld £46,139 of payments to Capita between May 2012 and November 2013 A private firm paid to provide court interpreters has been hit with thousands of pounds in fines and...
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New statewide service provides free language interpreters for court hearings...
CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Ohio Supreme Court now offers an all-hours language interpretation service that courts across the state can use at no cost. The telephonic service includes about 200 languages...
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State courts’ interpreters to help poor in civil cases — via SF Gate
Foreign-language interpreters, now provided by California courts in criminal and juvenile cases, will be available to low-income people in family law, housing and other civil disputes under a funding...
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Madame Justice, con permiso –via NY City Lens
Due to the city’s diverse population, court interpreters face challenges of dialects and cultural differences by Asha Mahadevan Hussean Hassan is not a lawyer. Nor is he a court officer or a law...
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Interpreter hits back at armchair critics –via iol news
Johannesburg – They sit in their offices translating their work with the help of a dictionary, and if there’s a word they are battling with, they can easily Google it or call around. Yet “they have...
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