Overview
- Pioneering work establishing language fair trial rights in international law
- Explores a longstanding but untreated subject that forms the core foundation for justice
- Illuminates, for the first time, the complexities of translation in a multilingual trial process
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
Language is the core foundation for justice. It is the means through which the rights of the accused are secured and exercised. Linguistic complexities such as misunderstandings, translation errors and cultural distance among participants in international criminal trials affect courtroom communication, the presentation and the perception of the evidence, hence jeopardizing the foundations of a fair trial.
The author concludes that language fair trial rights are priority rights situated in the minimum guarantees of fair criminal trial; the obligation of the court to ensure fair trial or accord the accused person a fair hearing also includes the duty to ensure they can understand and be understood.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Language and the Right to Fair Hearing in International Criminal Trials
Authors: Catherine S. Namakula
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01451-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-01450-0Published: 21 October 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-37741-4Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-01451-7Published: 07 October 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 146
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: International Criminal Law , Applied Linguistics, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Human Rights, Dispute Resolution, Mediation, Arbitration, Public International Law