Save the date of the launch conference for the QUALETRA (Quality in Legal Translation) project. The conference will take place in London, England, on Thursday, 4 April 2013. It will be hosted by London Metropolitan University, one of the project partners. A Call for Papers and details about the conference venue and programme will soon be published on the EULITA website.
“Interpretation services are vital for ensuring fair access to justice. Yet when the Ministry of Justice set out to establish a new centralised system for supplying interpreters to the justice system, almost everything that could go wrong did go wrong.
The Ministry awarded the contract to a company, ALS, that was clearly incapable of delivering. The Ministry had been warned that ALS was too small to shoulder a contract worth more than £1 million, but went ahead and handed them an annual £42 million contract covering the whole country.
The Association of Police and Court Interpreters has pleasure in announcing its first international conference, which will be held at No 1 Westferry Circus in London’s historic Docklands between 4 and 6 April 2013. The Conference will be followed by an Information Meeting and the third EULITA General Assembly, which will take place on the afternoon of 6 April 2013. Full details of the Conference can be found on the APCI website at www.apciinterpreters.org.uk.
QUALETRA (Quality in Legal Translation) – EULITA starts work on a new EU project that will focus on legal translation. So far, little attention has been paid to the problems of legal translation, as most projects have prioritized legal interpreting. However, EU Directive 2010/64 also calls for quality translation services for the essential documents in criminal proceedings and specifically also mentions the translations required for the European Arrest Warrant.
APCI (Association of Police and Court Interpreters) has invited EULITA to hold its next General Assembly in London, United Kingdom, on 6 April 2013 (afternoon). It will be preceded by the traditional Information Meeting and a conference on “The Challenges to Professional Translation and Interpreting in the Justice Sector” on 5 April (all day) and 6 April (morning).
EULITA (European Legal Interpreters and Translators Association) and Lessius University College Antwerp have been awarded EU funding for a project (TRAFUT – Training for the Future) which focuses on the specific aspects of the EU Directive on the right to interpretation and translation in criminal proceedings. EC Vice-President V. Reding has expressed her support for the TRAFUT project in a letter of endorsement to the TRAFUT project team.
UK court interpreters move forward to find a solution for interpreting services for the UK justice sector. Please find attached the interpreter bodies’ joint letter to Crispin Blunt, MP Minister for Justice.
This will be the fourth Lucentino International Symposium organized by the Department of Translation and Interpretation at the University of Alicante. Previous conferences were dedicated to topics related to literary translation, specialized translation and new technologies and their application to the translating process. This fourth session is dedicated to interpreting.
The AIIC Legal & Court Interpreting Committee in cooperation with the AIIC Netherlands Region organize a visit to the International Criminal Court and the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, followed by the 6th HAGUE LEGAL SYMPOSIUM “International Criminal Law and Its Development in Practice” from Friday 16 to Sunday 18 November 2012. For details see the attached announcement and registration form.
On 20 and 21 September 2012, DGT will organize the second edition of its Translation Studies Days in Brussels, the event where academia, public translation services and the language industry meet to discuss studies covering a wide range of topics regarding translation and multilingualism.