THE ROLE OF TRANSLATORS AND INTERPRETERS IN THE ACCESS TO JUSTICE. THE TRANSPOSITION OF EUROPEAN DIRECTIVE 2010/64/EU IN PORTUGAL AND FRANCE

• Autor(a) principal: Rocha, Cátia Alexandra Nunes
• Data de Publicação: 2024
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://parc.ipp.pt/index.php/Polissema/article/view/5650
• topic: Diretiva 2010/64/EU; Tradução e Interpretação em Processo Penal; Tradução Jurídica; Formação de tradutores;; Directive 2010/64/EU; Translation and Interpretation in criminal proceedings; Legal Translation; Translator training.

Access to justice is a well-established right of every citizen, but what happens when someone seeks justice in a country whose official language is not their own? Although the Portuguese Code of Criminal Procedure and its equivalents in the other EU Member States contemplate the need for a translator-interpreter in specific situations, these measures have not always proved sufficient or effective. Hence the draft Directive 2010/64/EU on the Right to Interpretation and Translation in Criminal Proceedings, whose transposition should be completed by 2013. The aim of this paper is to understand what measures have been taken and what may have changed over the ten years since the Directive was implemented, comparing measures taken in Portugal and in France. The results obtained made it possible to shed some light on the the importance of the role of the translator-interpreter, as well as on the training and opportunities offered in each of these countries.