STATUS AND RECOGNITION OF LEGAL INTERPRETERS AND TRANSLATORS TODAY

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1 EUROPEAN LEGAL INTERPRETERS AND TRANSLATORS ASSOCIATION in cooperation with BULGARIAN ASSOCIATION OF INTERPRETERS & TRANSLATORS STATUS AND RECOGNITION OF LEGAL INTERPRETERS AND TRANSLATORS TODAY SOFIA, BULGARIA MARCH 2018 Conference language: English Aranjuezmedina - Freepik.com

2 CONFERENCE PROGRAMME FRIDAY, 16 MARCH 2018 PALACE OF JUSTICE, bul. Vitosha 2, 1000 Sofia Court room 15, 2 nd floor 14:00 15:00 Arrival, registration and security check Please bring appropriate photo identification for the security check at the Palace of Justice (no suitcases allowed). 15:00 17:30 Welcome and introduction Marianna Hill, AIT President Daniela Amodeo Perillo, EULITA President Rt.Hon. Justice Lozan Panov, President of the Supreme Court of Cassation Evgeni Stoyanov, Deputy Minister of Justice Legal framework, benefits of court interpretation, expectations and scope for improvement from a judge s point of view (in Bulgarian, with consecutive interpretation into English) Rt.Hon. Justice Daniela Borissova, Deputy President of Sofia City Court, Head of the SCC Criminal College Q&A session Palace of Justice tour Please note: Seating at the Palace of Justice is limited and will be restricted on a first come, first served basis. NOVOTEL SOFIA, 115 N Tsarigradsko Shosse Blvd., 1784 Sofia 19:00 20:00 Drinks reception in honour of the Bulgarian Presidency of the European Union 20:00 22:30 Networking dinner ROOM FOR NOTES:

3 SATURDAY, 17 MARCH 2018 NOVOTEL SOFIA, 115 N Tsarigradsko Shosse Blvd., 1784 Sofia 08:30 09:00 Arrival and registration 09:00 09:30 Welcome and introduction Daniela Amodeo Perillo, EULITA President Marianna Hill, AIT President, Bulgaria 09:30 11:00 SESSION 1 moderated by Ivana Bucko 11:00 11:30 Coffee break Italy in the forefront of refugee inflow: a pilot training course for humanitarian interpreters Mariachiara Russo, Department of Interpreting and Translation, University of Bologna at Forlì, Italy Legal interpreting between the booth and the prison cell International Committee of the Red Cross perspective Karim Bouarar, Red. ICRC Senior Arabic Reviser and Interpreter, Switzerland The Greek refugee crisis: a linguistic stress test Dimitra Stafilia, PEEMPIP President, Greece 11:30 13:00 SESSION 2 moderated by Rita Schmit 13:00 14:00 Lunch Language assistance for communication with counsel has the standard been raised? James Brannan, Senior translator, European Court of Human Rights, France A reality check: the work of LITs in the real world Liisa Laakso-Tammisto, court interpreter and authorised translator, past President of SKTL, Finland The market for legal translation in Austria: the financial markets supervision perspective Michael Bailey, Translator, Banking Supervision Department, Financial Market Authority (FMA), Austria 14:00 15:50 SESSION 3 moderated by Marianna Hill Folitex or Forensic Linguistic Tap Expert: why (s)he should take the place of the former wiretap interpreter Katalin Balogh and Heidi Salaets, KU Leuven, Sint-Andries campus, Antwerp, Belgium Joint training for police and interpreters in specific scenarios Irina Norton, APCI Vice Chairman, United Kingdom An update on EULITA s project of an ISO standard on legal interpreting (DIS 20228) Liese Katschinka, ISO standard project leader, Austria 15:50 16:00 Closing remarks 16:00 16:30 Coffee break Registration for the 8 th General Assembly of EULITA (for EULITA members only) Inscription à la 8 e Assemblée générale d EULITA (réservé aux membres d EULITA) For EULITA members only: Réservé aux membres d EULITA : With chuchotage interpretation English/French (whisper set) / avec chuchotage anglais/français (bidule) 16:30 18:30 8 th General Assembly of EULITA 8 e Assemblée générale d EULITA

4 In honour of the Bulgarian Presidency of the European Union The Directors of AIT and the President and members of the EULITA Executive Committee request the pleasure of your company at a On Friday 16 March 2018 at Novotel Sofia, 115 N Tsarigradsko Shosse Boulevard from 7.00pm to 8.00pm To be followed by Dinner, subject to separate registration RSVP by to sofia-conference@eulita.eu

5 USEFUL INFORMATION CONFERENCE VENUE Hotel Novotel Sofia 115 N Tsarigradsko Shosse Blvd 1784 Sofia, Bułgaria The Hotel is located approximately 7 kilometres from the city and 5 kilometres from Sofia International Airport: How to get to Novotel Sofia from Sofia International Airport: BY METRO: the closest Metro station to Novotel Sofia is Druzhba station (approx. 2 kilometres walk to the hotel or take bus no. 204 towards the city centre and get off at the third stop called The Mall Hermes Park you can see the hotel from the bus stop) BY SHUTTLE: the hotel runs a shuttle bus to and from Sofia International Airport (please ask at reception) BY BUS (approx. 45 minutes): take bus no. 84 from Terminal 1 or bus no. 184 from Terminal 2 (busses leave every 30 minutes), get off at the State Printing House station (Darzhavna Pechatnitsa), then take the Tsarigradsko shosse Blvd underpass to get to Novotel (approx. 500 metres walk to the hotel)

6 USEFUL INFORMATION How to get to the Palace of Justice from Novotel Sofia: PALACE OF JUSTICE bul. Vitosha 2, 1000 Sofia 1) Walk from Novotel Sofia to Druzhba station (approx. 2 kilometres) or take bus no. 204 in the outbound direction from the The Mall Hermes Park station and get off at the third stop called Metrostantsiya Druzhba 2) Take the metro from Druzhba station and get off at Serdika station (9 stops) 3) Walk to the Palace of Justice, bul. Vitosha 2 (about 350 metres)

7 STATUS AND RECOGNITION OF LEGAL USEFUL INFORMATION SOFIA UNDERGROUND MAPS