The Role of Court Interpreters: Mohamed (Role of Interpreter) Somalia [2011] UKUT 337 (IAC)
by Katia Bianchini
Question(s) at stake
Whether the first-tier judge erred in law when he declined to allow the interpreter to give “evidence” in court concerning the language spoken by the appellant.
Outcome of the ruling
The first-tier judge did not err in law when he declined to allow the interpreter to give “evidence” in court concerning the language spoken by the appellant, as this is not part of the interpreter’s role. Accordingly, the appeal was dismissed.
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Mohamed (role of interpreter) Somalia [2011] UKUT 337 (IAC)
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Keywords:
Assessment Evidence Asylum procedures Asylum seeker Refusal of asylum Applicant's credibility
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Katia Bianchini (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Department Law and Anthropology, Germany)
Katia Bianchini is a Research Fellow of the Law and Anthropology Department of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle. She holds a law degree from the University of Pavia (Italy), an LL.M. in Comparative Laws from the University of San Diego (California, USA), and a Ph.D. in Law from the University of York (UK). Her doctoral thesis provided an empirical and legal analysis of how the 1954 UN Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons is implemented in ten EU states. She has also worked as a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (Göttingen). Before engaging in research, she practised immigration and refugee law for ten years in the UK and the USA.
Bianchini has published in the field of refugee law, statelessness, and the rule of law in the context of sea migration. Her current research builds on her expertise in human rights and Italian law and looks at the treatment of deceased sea migrants in the South of Italy.