How Important Is Finding The Right And Qualified Arabic Interpreter?
Is An Arabic Interpreter Important?
Do You Need An Arabic Interpreter, or an Arabic Translator?
Arabic Interpreter Introducing Himself And Getting Ready To Interpret During A Hearing
People don’t think much sometimes of how they will conduct their business, or let's say, they don’t think or plan, particularly when it comes to unfamiliar territory. For example, an attorney who is supposed to depose a client during a deposition, an attorney who is defending a client that doesn’t speak any or very little English, or he or she is a native Arabic speaker.
In some cases, we watch some very good capable attorneys prepare hard for a case, they write statements, get affidavits, prepare, invest ample amount of time, and put up a well-thought off defense on behalf of their client, or a prosecutor preparing to put an alleged terrorist behind bars. Although a defense attorney might have tried to think of everything to exonerate their client, they always take it for granted that this next client or next case, and it is like the hundreds of clients that they had previously handled. Wrong, your next client is an Arabic speaker, doesn’t speak a word of English, you are meeting with that client tomorrow whom you have been working hard on his or her case, ready to put up a one of a kind unique defense. However, the one thing that can make or break the case, didn’t even cross the attorney's or persecutor's mind. Neither the attorney nor the client can communicate, when the attorney decides to put his client on the witness stand, he can’t question him, he can’t be cross-examined, since each of them speaks a different language.
Several years ago, and during a prep session for a court hearing, during an attorney-client meeting. The attorney was working on drafting a statement to be submitted to the court during the pretrial hearing. The attorney was so impressed with the Arabic Interpreter he was using his services to interpret for him, from English into Arabic, and from the Arabic language into the English language, to the point, that the attorney turned around, looked the Arabic interpreter who was assisting him in the eye, and told him, “I can’t exist without you”. Although the Arabic interpreter was ecstatic to hear this, it is very true. If the Arabic interpreter, a qualified or a certified Arabic interpreter wasn’t there to assist the attorney, how would that prep meeting have gone, how would the attorney be able to defend his Arabic speaking client in court, while neither can understand, communicate between each other, how would they then, would have been able to bridge the gap?
Arabic language interpreters, always work in the shadows, and a good Arabic interpreter is the one that neither a defense lawyer, a prosecutor, a government attorney, a judge, a court clerk, or even the respondent don’t feel that he is there. However, on the other hand, he is delivering his Arabic into English and English into Arabic interpreting flawlessly to both sides. This way the due-process of the law can happen easily, smoothly, effortlessly, and accurately.
Arabic language interpreters and translators have a massively important role to play in today's society. With too many immigrants coming to the United States, and plenty are elderly. Also, with at least a Middle Eastern community of 20-million individuals, legal aliens, illegal aliens, and U.S. citizens. They do and will need at some point assistance during a deposition, an asylum hearing, immigration court, a trial by a court, a Habeas Corpus hearing, providing a statement to a court of law, or a law enforcement state or federal officer, providing an affidavit, signing on a Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU), assisting at a hospital or medical facility, the list is endless. That is when an Arabic interpreter who is familiar with the legal and medical jargon comes in handy. Even if the respondent or the client can speak little or some English. However, this limited vocabulary the client has is no match to the legal terminology.
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Attorneys have to always prepare well for their court cases. However, to be fully prepared, they have to hire the right Arabic Linguist well, and they have to do that well in advance since Arabic is a scarce language, and a qualified Arabic interpreter is hard to find, and they are usually booked way in advance. Always remember, an Arabic Interpreter can either make or break a case.
Attorneys also defending terrorism cases, national security cases, department of homeland security cases will need to have an Arabic interpreter or an Arabic translator with a Top Secret Security clearance, most of the time referred to as TS/SCI or TS/SCI/SAP. Clearances in such cases, the Arabic interpreter has to go through a rigorous process, that can take up to 3-years to be cleared, to be able to access classified or privileged information, either being in the Arabic language or the English language. The Arabic interpreter will then need to interpret from source language to target language that can be during a classified hearing, a military court, military commissions tribunal, a federal courthouse. Also, this kind of work can take place in a government secure SCIF to interpret for the prosecutor or the defense team recorded tapes, voicemail messages, text messages, wiretaps, videotapes, DVDs, CDs, and the list goes on.
THE TAKEAWAY:
An Arabic Court Interpreter can be appointed free of charge by the courthouse, whenever the Court determines an individual cannot comprehend the English language and that person incapable of understanding the Court, or not being to communicate properly and fully understand his attorney, judge, jury, or prosecutor. The Judge then signs off an order granting interpreter services who get sworn to interpret and translate all the proceedings oral and written discoveries.
An Arabic language interpreter is a valuable asset and can cover a wide array of subjects in a court of law including but not limited to, trials, arraignments, detention both criminal and civil, dispositional, divorce, habeas corpus, among many others.
When you are searching for a qualified Arabic interpreter, an Arabic Linguist, or an Arabic Translator, we are always a phone call away.
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