Briefings

The Interpreter Brief is a short monthly note on the points where Arabic interpreting and UK legal practice meet — written for practitioners rather than for other interpreters.

Editions

• Detained clients and the interview record — how detention affects an account, and six things to check in the record before relying on it.
• Three Arabic words to check in any Gulf extradition or Red Notice file — تعميم, بلاغ and حكم غيابي, and why loose English renderings matter.
• What “no comment” means for an Arabic-speaking client in a PACE interview — the caution, لا تعليق, and what to agree in the consultation.
• A solicitor’s checklist for instructing an Arabic interpreter — when to book, what to send, and how to avoid a dialect mismatch.
• Does the English interview record match what your client said in Arabic? — what an independent record review checks, when it changes a case, and the dialect points it catches in Gulf and asylum matters.
• When a “contradictory” date isn’t a contradiction — why Hijri-to-Gregorian date conversion produces credibility findings that are not inconsistencies at all.