Keep your distance? Remote interpreting in legal proceedings

Keep your distance ?

Remote interpreting, whereby the interpreter is physically separated from those who need the interpretation, has been investigated in relation to conference and healthcare settings. By contrast, very little is known about remote interpreting in legal proceedings, where this method of interpreting is increasingly used to optimise interpreters‟ availability. This paper reports the findings of an ...

Justice in Jerusalem — Interpreting in Israeli Legal Proceedings

This article discusses the background to present-day attitudes towards interpreting in the Israeli judicial system. It outlines traditional Jewish approaches to language issues in legal proceedings, as well as pragmatic solutions adopted in the early years of the Jewish state. A comparison is provided of interpreting arrangements at the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann, the mid-1980s proceedings ag...

Keep Your Enemies Close: Distance Bounding Against Smartcard Relay Attacks

As Alice inserts her card, Bob sends a message to his accomplice, Carol, who is about to pay $2 000 for a expensive diamond ring at honest Dave’s jewellery shop. Carol inserts a counterfeit card into Dave’s terminal. This card is wired to a laptop in her backpack, which communicates with Bob’s laptop using mobile phones. The data to and from Dave’s terminal is relayed to the restaurant’s counte...

Interpreting Legal Constructivism

Keep your eyes on sepsis.

For questions related to this article, contact Sandra Shiramizo at sandralima@ einstein.br. program became necessary as mortality rates for sepsis at the hospital nearly doubled from 2009 to 2010, increasing from 16% to 46%. Some evidence shows that educational programs are associated with improved bundle care and lower hospital mortality rates. This training was essentially an educational prog...