Language and Justice

Tatiana Grieshofer is Professor in Language and Law with an interdisciplinary research profile across socio-legal studies, administrative law and applied linguistics. Drawing on mixed methods approaches, her work explores access to justice pathways across civil and family proceedings. Kate Haworth is a visiting senior research fellow at the Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics, of which she is a founding member. Prior to her academic career she was a practising barrister. She has been an active researcher in the field of investigative interviewing for over twenty years.

• List of figures; List of tables; Notes on contributors; 1. Introduction: the role of language in law and justice Tatiana Grieshofer and Kate Haworth; Part I. Communication and Legal Process: 2. The principle of orality in county and family courts Tatiana Grieshofer; 3. Linguistic rituals in Faretta waivers Mel Greenlee; 4. Navigating the challenges of legal practice in lawful surveillance of multilingual communication Nadja Capus, Cornelia Griebel and Franziska Hohl Zürcher; 5. Process, procedure and professional practice in the creation of police interview evidence Kate Haworth; 6. Evidence and assessing verbatim transcription quality of Black English and standard American English L. Alexander Walker III; 7. Judicial exceptionalism and the potential for misinterpretation Michele Ruyters, Miranda Lai and Gregory Stratton; 8. Interpreting for jurors and defendants' right to a fair trial Eva N. S. Ng; Part II. Communication and Legal Profession: 9. 'Being sure': judicial practices in directing juries on the criminal standard of proof Chris Heffer and Malcolm Coulthard; 10. Signposting topics in the cross-examination of vulnerable witnesses David Wright, John Jackson, Jonathan Doak, Candida Saunders and Debbie Cooper; 11. The ambivalence of judicial interventions at the international criminal court Fabio Ferraz de Almeida and Elena Barrett; 12. Discourse and contingency in international criminal justice Sigurd D'hondt; 13. The politics of official language rights in the multilingual courtroom Janny H. C. Leung; 14. The co-construction of witness statements in a refugee family reunion case Judith Reynolds; 15. Intercultural communication in migration law education Laura Smith-Khan.