Judges and the Understanding of Language Issues

International study days led by Agnès Whitfield (York University, Toronto, Canada – researcher in residence at Maison Suger) in collaboration with Maison Suger and the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme.

In French and English

At a time when the rights of linguistic minorities are increasingly under threat and when migration flows are confronting local judicial systems with litigants speaking an ever-wider range of languages, research and sensitisation efforts in the areas of legal translation and interpreting and linguistic rights are particularly urgent.

These study days bring together translation scholars, translators and interpreters, judges, lawyers and representatives of public institutions and organisations that assist litigants to explore how a better understanding of language, translation and interpretation issues by judges could improve access to justice for litigants who do not speak the majority language of the court. More specifically, by facilitating productive dialogue among the various stakeholders, they seek to identify:

1. What such an understanding on the part of judges should entail.
2. How effective training in this area could be designed and delivered.

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Programme for both study days coming soon