Comments on: Guidelines for communicating rights to non-native speakers of English

By: Romeo Paul Rozario

Romeo Paul Rozario — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 04:05:51 +0000

These guidelines are timely and will greatly benefit non-native English speakers in police interviews. It will safeguard their right to communicate and provide them with equal legal treatment. Another advantage is that interested individuals or organizations will be able to use the guidelines since there will be no copyright issues.

By: VinN

VinN — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 23:33:00 +0000

I hope this guidelines brings improvement in police interview. This guideline may benefit both police and non-native speakers by facilitating the communication between them. As it is stated in the post, interpreters will also benefit from this. Since non-native English speakers may be vulnerable in police interview, they may need some protection of their legal and humanity rights. If this guidelines works well, it should provide a protection to them. As a migrant from a non-English-spoken country, I am so glad to see this.

By: Diana Eades

Diana Eades — Wed, 02 Dec 2015 02:59:50 +0000

Thanks Laura. We are already getting some positive responses from police and lawyers in Western Australia. And the Bar Association in that state is including information about, and a copy of, the Guidelines in the next issue of their weekly bulletin to members (that is, barristers in Western Australia).

By: Laura Smith-Khan

Laura Smith-Khan — Wed, 02 Dec 2015 01:23:54 +0000

Thanks for sharing, Diana. The Guidelines promise to be a valuable and easily accessible tool that will hopefully help avoid situations like in WA v Gibson.