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- Ireland's District Court: Language, immigration and consequences for justice
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: Manchester University Press
summary
For the uninitiated, the Irish District Court is a place of incomprehensible, organised chaos. This comprehensive account of the court’s criminal proceedings, based on an original study which involved observing hundreds of cases, aims to demystify the mayhem and provide the reader with descriptions of language, participant discourse and procedure in the typical criminal case. In addition, the book captures a recent and important change in the District Court: the advent of the immigrant or the Limited-English-proficient (LEP) defendant. It traces the rise of these defendants and explores the issues involved in ensuring access to justice across languages. It also provides an original description of LEP defendants and interpreters in District Court proceedings, ultimately considering how they have altered the institution and how the characteristics of the District Court affect how limited English proficient defendants access justice at this level of the Irish courts system.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgements
- p. xii
- List of Abbreviations
- p. xiii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-6
- Part I: The Irish District Court: its role, function and day-to-day operation
- 1 Introducing the District Court
- pp. 9-30
- Part II: Immigration and the Irish District Court: changing context, new challenges
- 3 LEP immigrants in Irish courts
- pp. 63-96
- Part III: Processing LEP defendants: bilingual cases in the Irish District Court
- Conclusion
- pp. 154-160
- Appendix A: Methodology
- pp. 161-166
- Appendix B: Participants
- pp. 167-169
- Bibliography
- pp. 189-200
Additional Information
ISBN
9781847799395
Related ISBN(s)
9780719095276
MARC Record
OCLC
980547973
Pages
224
Launched on MUSE
2017-04-08
Language
English
Open Access
No