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Guidelines and Resources for Practitioners

Below is a range of guidelines created by AUSIT for translation and interpreting practitioners, in order to obtain best outcomes. AUSIT strongly recommends that practitioners thoroughly review the guidelines to prepare for their interactions with clients.

Recommendations Official Translation
AUSIT’s Best Practices for the Translation of Official and Legal Documents
AUSIT’s Guidelines for Interpreters Signing Legal Documents
Protocols Telephone Interpreting
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AUSIT's Guidelines for Community Interpreters

Below are further guidelines and advice endorsed by AUSIT …

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Guidelines for Interpreting in Mental Health Settings
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Use of your NAATI stamp on already translated documents (ethics)

… plus a collection of other resources, produced by stakeholders in translation and interpreting, that may be of use to practitioners.

For legal settings:

Legal Literate

Legal Literate is a plain English glossary website with definitions of common legal and judicial terms, to assist interpreters working in Australian courts and tribunals. 

Legal Literate was created by the Judicial Council on Diversity and Inclusion, an initiative supported by The Social Policy Group. 

LawTermFinder

LawTermFinder is a free online dictionary of the words and phrases used in Australian Family Law and mediation services. It also offers translations in 8 community languages.

LawTermFinder was created by a team in the Linguistics Department of Macquarie University.

The Plain English Legal Dictionary

The Plain English Legal Dictionary explains legal terms in plain English to help lawyers, police, judges and other legal staff to communicate with Indigenous people who do not speak English as a first language.

The Plain English Legal Dictionary was produced by ARDS in partnership with the Aboriginal Interpreter Service (AIS) and North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency (NAAJA).

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for court interpreters to report incidents or issues that occur in court interpreting assignments.

Purpose and function of this information submission form.

This form enables you to report issues or problems that you encounter in the course of court interpreting assignments. These issues and problems will be collected by AUSIT to report to the JCCD (the Judicial Council on Cultural Diversity) to monitor the implementation of the Recommended National Standards. The reporting of these issues and problems enables AUSIT to work with the JCCD to suggest steps to address these issues and to avoid the repetition of these problems in the future.

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