Assistance by a foreign language or sign language interpreter may, where appropriate, be provided by means of telecommunication, in accordance with the provisions of the penultimate paragraph of Article 706-71.
The right of suspected or accused persons to the assistance of an interpreter pursuant to the provisions of this code also applies to persons with speech or hearing impairments. If their condition so warrants, such persons shall be assisted during the hearing, as well as in the case provided for in article D. 594-3, for their interviews with their lawyer, by a sign language interpreter or by any qualified person…
Without prejudice to the possibility for the public prosecutor or the investigating or trial court hearing the case to order, of its own motion or at the request of the person, the translation of a document considered essential to the exercise of the defence and to guaranteeing the fairness of the trial, must be translated pursuant to Article Preliminary and Article 803-5 : 1° Decisions to remand a person in…
The translation of essential documents may relate only to those passages of these documents that are relevant to the person’s knowledge of the facts of which he or she is accused. The relevant passages of these documents are determined, depending on the stage of the proceedings, by the public prosecutor, the investigating judge or the court hearing the case.
The translation must be completed within a reasonable timeframe that allows the rights of the defence to be exercised and takes into account the number and complexity of the documents to be translated and the language into which they must be translated.
If, by way of exception, the pleading has been the subject of an oral translation or an oral summary, in accordance with the provisions of the second paragraph of Article 803-5, this shall be mentioned in the minutes or in the notes of the hearings. This mention may, where appropriate, appear in the document itself, in particular in the convening minutes provided for in the last paragraph of Article 390-1,…
The provisions of this section and those of the preliminary article and article 803-5 relating to translation are not applicable to notices of fixed fines and notices of increased fixed fines delivered or sent to the offender pursuant to Articles 529 et seq.
Victims of offences are entitled to the assistance of an interpreter during their hearing in accordance with the procedures laid down by the provisions of articles D. 594-2, D. 594-4 and D. 594-5. If, exceptionally, the procedural document has been the subject of an oral translation or an oral summary, in accordance with the provisions of the third paragraph of Article 10-3, mention of this shall be made in the…
Where the victim does not understand the French language, he or she is entitled, at his or her request, to a translation of the information essential to the exercise of his or her rights, in particular of the receipt for the lodging of a complaint given to him or her pursuant to Article 15-3.
Without prejudice to the possibility for the public prosecutor or the investigating or trial court hearing the case to order, of its own motion or at the request of the civil party, the translation of procedural documents containing information considered essential to the exercise of the civil party’s rights and which are, as such, provided or notified to the civil party pursuant to this code, must be translated pursuant to…
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