INTERPRETERS staged a walkout at Bradford Asylum and Immigration Tribunals yesterday in protest at Ministry of Justice plans to contract with one supplier to provide language services at courts and tribunals.
Interpreters Film
Cambridgeshire Constabulary has produced an awareness film for police officers and court/community interpreters which can be downloaded from the below website.
ISIT colloquium: Translation Policy, Issues in the Strategic Management of Language Policy
Governments, intergovernmental organizations, institutions in the public and private sectors, and businesses operate increasingly in multilingual environments. These may be international, domestic, regional or local in scope. The need for the strategic management of comprehensive translation policies has emerged at the beginning of the 21st century as an imperative which can no longer be ignored as organizations devise and implement translation policies which are designed to meet the future needs of a wide variety of stakeholders.
AVIDICUS e-book now online
We are very pleased to announce that the electronic volume related to the AVIDICUS Project is now available via the LIT-section of the website.
The volume, entitled Videoconference and Remote Interpreting in Criminal Proceedings, contains papers presented at the Project Symposium in February 2011, together with the findings and recommendations of the AVIDICUS Project.
TRAFUT – Training for the Future
Details about the TRAFUT project, for which EULITA and Lessius University College have obtained EU funding and the endorsement of Vice-President V. Reding, can be found in the TRAFUT section of the EULITA website.
