Publication details
Soudní tlumočníci v proměnách věků – právněhistorické ohlédnutí za právní úpravou soudního tlumočení v českých zemích
| Title in English | Court Interpreters Throughout the Ages – A Legal Historical Overview of the Regulation of Court Translation in the Czech Lands |
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| Year of publication | 2021 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Časopis pro právní vědu a praxi |
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| Citation | |
| Web | Open access časopisu |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/CPVP2021-3-3 |
| Keywords | Court Interpreters; Court Translators; Expert Witnesses; Judiciary; Legal History. |
| Description | On 1st January 2021, the long-awaited Act on Court Interpreters and Court Translators came into effect. For the first time in history, court interpreters have received a specific statute regulating the exercise of their duties. This new statute also presents an opportunity to examine the almost 200-year-long history of court interpretation and the legal status of court interpreters in the Czech lands. This issue had been mostly omitted in most legal historical works and this article, which is based on archival research and an analysis of historical case law, presents the first systematic analysis of the historical development of the regulation of court interpretation since its inception in the first half of the 19th century all the way to the present. |