On the legal liability of interpreters</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="On the legal liability of interpreters"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="On,the,legal,liability,of,interpreters"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">28-12-2004</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>On the legal liability of interpreters</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/img_news/img_Mq2BgYhXNIwJS5I5RQUZ_0.jpg" align="left" vspace="5" hspace="5" ><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Vermont, USA: Further to the resignation by Fred Burkes, chief interpreter for the White House in relations with Indonesian countries, over his refusal to sign a confidentiality clause [see our article dated 22.12.2004], a growing number of court interpreters are concerned about being obliged to testify in court on the content of their translations. <br>In Vermont, for example, at present foreign-language interpreters are not protected from being called as witnesses in cases in which they were first asked to translate words from one language to another. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://www.timesargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041228/NEWS/412280319/1003/NEWS02" target="blank">www.timesargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041228/NEWS/412280319/1003/NEWS02</a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show