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General Principles

Every person charged with a crime has a right to the assistance of an interpreter where they cannot understand the English or French language. Section 14 of the Charter states:

14. A party or witness in any proceedings who does not understand or speak the language in which the proceedings are conducted or who is deaf has the right to the assistance of an interpreter.

– CCRF

Interpretation must be continuous, precise, impartial and contemporaneous.

Evidence given through an interpreter in court is presumed to have provided an accurate interpretation unless the claimant can demonstrate otherwise.

Competence

This right requires that the interpreter be a competent one. This does not mean that s. 14 of the Charter extends guarantee to an accredited or certified interpreter. The interpreter must simply be a competent and qualified court interpreter. Unaccredited interpreters will often be held to be inadequate.

To determine whether an interpreter is sufficiently competent the court must look at "the nature of the accreditation and the validity of the test upon which it is based, the test results attained, the mode of interpretation required, the expected length of the proceedings, and the technical nature of the subject matters in the proceeding."

Procedure

Before an interpreter can testify, he must be sworn.