Combining courtroom ethnography, discourse analysis and matched-guise experiments, the author powerfully rejects the popular view that interpreters do not affect legal proceedings.
It contains important papers by leading figures on the language of the courtroom, interpreting, court reporting, and forensic linguistics.
The results were rather meagre, most noticeably in the courtrooms.
The governors of hospitals also expected that their courtroom would be a closed institution.
The courtroom proceedings treated each party impartially and each view was subject to a degree of neutrality.
Thus, the registers may not be an accurate record of what was actually said in the courtroom.
Back in the courtroom, the coroner addressed the jury about the purpose of the proceedings.
The new adversarial system not only created the role of the expert witness, but also had a dramatic effect on its deployment in the courtroom.
