The Unified Register of Court Interpreters as an Organizational and Legal form of Ensuring their Participation in Criminal Proceedings

The participation of an interpreter in criminal proceedings makes it possible to ensure the realization of the most important rights of participants in criminal proceedings, primarily the suspect and the accused—the right to protection and access to justice. However, ensuring the participation of an interpreter in criminal proceedings faces a number of problems, among which the most common are: the absence of an interpreter from the desired language at the place of criminal proceedings; insufficient competence of the translator; lack of translation skills; inability to promptly provide translation services. According to the author, their solution lies in the plane of a number of organizational aspects, the main of which is the organization of the formation of a unified register of court interpreters.