New centre set up to ease justice process for foreigners
Thailand’s first “E-Justice Conference Centre” has been officially set up on the sixth floor of the Criminal Court building in a bid to boost public access to justice procedure as well as save people's time and money when attending hearings in criminal c
Supreme Court president Veerapol Tangsuwan presided over the centre’s launch yesterday, when envoys from Asean and other countries witnessed the event, including representatives from Cambodia, Japan, France, Bhutan, Malaysia, Russia, Laos, Singapore and the United States. The E-Justice Conference Centre aims to be a new alternative to support witness testimony by translating what is being said into foreign languages, the local language as well as in sign language through a video-conference system.
The Courts of Justice have provided interpreters of English and other languages such as Chinese, Turkish, Persian, Burmese, French, Russian, Lao, Vietnamese, Spanish and Italian including other tribal languages for the victims, the accused and the witnesses in criminal cases.
During the 2011-2015 fiscal year, interpreters for the victims, accused persons and witnesses had been provided approximately 1,500 times a year. The 2015 fiscal year saw interpreters being provided at 1,783 times (592 times of which were for English language and 1,191 times for other languages).
