The Critical Link 5 -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Quality in Interpreting -- The Critical Link -- The papers -- Conclusion -- References -- Part I. A shared responsibility - the policy dimension -- 2. Forensic Interpreting - Trial and Error -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The jurisprudential basis of the role of the interpreter -- 3. The right to an interpreter -- 4. Consequences of communication failure -- 5. Quality through qualified interpreters -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Cases cited -- 3. The Tension between adequacy and acceptability in Legal Interpreting and Translation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The bilingual Hong Kong courtroom -- 3. Adequacy and acceptability in legal interpreting and translation -- 4. Conviction lost in translation -- 5. Semantic discrepancies in legal translation -- 6. Common law as the semantic reference scheme and its implications -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix 1: Use of Chinese in courts -- Appendix 2: Population aged 5 and over by usual language in 2006 -- Appendix 3: Ratio of English and Chinese trials at different court levels in 2006 -- 4. A discourse of danger and loss -- 1. Background -- 2. Theory: Critical links in professional interpreting -- 3. Methodology: Cultural communication and the matter of voice -- 4. A discourse of danger and loss -- 5. Digression: Transmission model, reprise -- 6. Resumption of the discourse of danger and loss -- 7. Turning to a new paradigm -- References -- 5. Is healthcare interpreter policy left in the seventies? -- 1. Policy background -- 2. The changing healthcare and diversity context -- 3. Research on language facilitation -- 4. Policy in the future -- 5. Where to in the future? -- References -- Part II. Investigations and innovations in quality interpreting.

6. Interpreter ethics versus customary law -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background to Aboriginal languages interpreting -- 3. The interpreter code of ethics -- 4. Aboriginal customary law -- 5. The principle of impartiality -- 6. The principle of confidentiality -- 7. The principle of accuracy -- 8. Quality and compromise - a shared responsibility -- References -- 7. A shared responsibility in the administration of justice -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Literature review -- 3. Research questions -- 4. Methodology -- 5. Results & discussion -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Appendix: Comprehension test questions -- 8. Interpreting for the record -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Legal and institutional context -- 3. Method, participants and corpus -- 4. Analysis -- 5. Discussion and conclusion -- References -- 9. Court interpreting in Basque -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The nature of the Basque language -- 3. The political situation in the Basque Country -- 4. The beginnings of court interpreting in Basque -- 5. Types and categories of interpreters working with the Basque language -- 6. The study -- 7. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix -- 10. Community interpreting in Spain -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 3. Methodology -- 4. Results -- 5. Discussion -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- Part III. Pedagogy, ethics and responsibility in interpreting -- 11. Toward more reliable assessment of interpreting performance -- 1. Background -- 2. The study -- 3. Results and discussion -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- 12. Quality in healthcare interpreter training -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Rules vs. norms -- 3. The ISMETT training project -- 4. Analysis of transcripts and interpreters' comments -- 5. Conclusions: From "undefining" to "redefining"? -- References -- 13. What can interpreters learn from discourse studies?.

1. Introduction -- 2. A brief overview of discourse analysis -- 3. Know where you are going -- 4. Interpreting the signposts -- 5. Feedback -- 6. Scale of certainty -- 7. Cohesion in interpreted exchanges -- 8. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Transcription conventions -- References -- 14. Achieving quality in health care interpreting -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Method -- 3. Results -- 4. Discussion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 15. Research Ethics, Interpreters and Biomedical Research -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methods -- 3. Three models of interpreting -- 4. The interpreter as conduit -- 5. The interpreter as cultural broker -- 6. The embedded interpreter -- 7. The research interpreter -- 8. The implications of language and language barriers for research -- 9. Interpreters, informed consent and research -- 10. Community consent -- 11. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Contributors -- Index -- The series Benjamins Translation Library.