In the global village of today, more people have been moving and migrating than ever before creating a need for better communication. Thus community interpreting rose as a specialization serving the needs of members of the community who are unable to communicate with the system. Within this broad field of interpreting the specialist area of legal interpreting assumed a high position. However, l...

in the global village of today, more people have been moving and migrating than ever before creating a need for better communication. thus community interpreting rose as a specialization serving the needs of members of the community who are unable to communicate with the system. within this broad field of interpreting the specialist area of legal interpreting assumed a high position. however, l...

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 ...

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• The aim of the survey among legal practitioners and judicial institutions was to gauge the extent to which different forms of video-mediated interpreting are currently employed across different European countries and to elicit information regarding planned uses, as well as the underlying motivations for use on the part of the judicial services. • The survey among legal interpreters was intend...