Centre for Translation Studies
Faculty of Arts & Human Sciences
University of Surrey
Guildford, Surrey
GU2 7XH
Tel: +44 (0)1483 686240
Fax: +44 (0)1483 689505
Email: lts-pg@surrey.ac.uk
AVIDICUS
Assessment of Videoconference Interpreting in the Criminal Justice Service
EU Criminal Justice Programme, Project JLS/2008/JPEN/037, 2008-2011
Questionnaire on videoconference interpreting/remote interpreting in criminal proceedings
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Background information: A survey conducted by the European Council Working Party on Legal Data Processing (e-Justice) in 2008 shows that videoconferencing (VC) is increasingly used in national and cross-border criminal proceedings to speed up co-operation, reduce costs or increase security. This entails two new forms of interpreting:
a) Videoconference interpreting (VCI) is used when the proceedings take place at two different locations, e.g. a court and a prison, that are linked via VC. The interpreter is situated either in the court or in the prison with the non-native speaker.
b) Remote interpreting (RI) is used to provide timely access to qualified legal interpreters. In this case, the proceedings take place at a single location (e.g. a court room), but the interpreter is integrated via VC link from a remote location (e.g. at another court house).
Very little is currently known about the viability and quality of VCI and RI, especially their reliability for evidential purposes. AVIDICUS is an EU-funded research project that aims to address this question through an empirical study of VCI and RI in criminal proceedings.
The questionnaire: If you have experience with VCI and/or RI, especially in criminal proceedings, we would appreciate your co-operation in completing this questionnaire. Please use the link below to enter the online survey.
Confidentiality: To protect your privacy, your responses will be SSL encrypted during their transmission to us. Furthermore, any information you provide will be released in anonymised form only (in reports to the EU and in academic publications). Our reports will not identify any specific individual in any way.
The AVIDICUS Project is co-ordinated by:
Centre for Translation Studies
University of Surrey
Guildford GU2 7XH
United Kingdom
Contact: Dr Sabine Braun
Phone: +44 (0)1483 682825
Email: s.braun@surrey.ac.uk
http://www.surrey.ac.uk/translation/avidicus/
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