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Risks of Not Using Qualified Translators
and Interpreters
Danger Ahead! There are inherent risks in not using qualified translators and interpreters. The below examples illustrate what can go wrong.
23 Apr 2019
Jen McMillan, writing in the Law Society Journal, explains the dangers for bilingual lawyers when they seek to act as interpreters and/or translators…
12 Apr 2017
An Aboriginal man with cognitive impairment has walked free from jail after almost five years behind bars, with WA’s highest court overturning his…
22 Nov 2016
ANU: Critical case analysis of adverse events associated with failure to use interpreters for non-English speaking patients.
29 Aug 2016
In the case of State v. Casarez-Hernandez, 280 Or App 312 (2016) (De Muniz, S.J.), the court concludes that the state failed to meet its burden…
9 Aug 2016
Lost in translation: Chinese tourist mistaken for asylum seeker in Germany (ABC News)…
15 Jun 2016
In the case of Biggs v George [2016] NSWCA 113, Ms Sandra George, a Macedonian-speaker with a poor grasp of English, underwent an operation…
28 Nov 2015
Migrant advocates are calling for specialised training of interpreters for family violence victims as cases emerge of those who fail to remain…
5 Nov 2015
Western Australian police officers have often failed to comply with the Criminal Investigation Act 2006 (CI Act) and their own Police Manual…
27 Sep 2015
Woman calling for inquest into son’s death fears man who confessed to murder without interpreter present is innocent…
16 Jun 2015
In the case of Police v Pithang [2015] SASC 88 (11 June 2015) an accused man walked free after police prosecutors failed to find an interpreter…
30 May 2015
The suspect was denied basic legal rights such as the use of an interpreter, and thus his admissions to police were not voluntary.
April 2010
Sara Bird’s case study in the Australian Family Physician Vol. 39, no. 4, April 2010 outlines the potential legal implications…
