Court proceedings are sensitive especially for the defendants and the victims. There needs to be clarity in the minds of all the participants on what is being said and decided. There have been efforts towards better language interpretation practices for the benefits of bilingual or multilingual participants. The victim’s rights should also be respected as it is through them that defendants are arrested and prosecuted.
Language Interpretation and Victim Rights
There have been concerns in the criminal system concerning issues of language interpretation and victim rights. In the nineteenth and twentieth century there has been an influx of people to the United States. ...
