• About This Webinar

    This on-demand webinar covers interpreter ethics and the ethical dilemmas that arise during assignments. Suitable for: volunteer interpreters, inexperienced or experienced professionals.

  • Content Covered

    What are ethics? Ethical dilemmas and ways to avoid stepping outside our role. Code of Conduct, Code of Good Practice and what it all means. You will also learn why ethics are important on the job as well as between colleagues.

Helena El Masri

Course Tutor

Helena is a DPSI Law qualified interpreter with over 20 years of experience. She has been teaching the DPSI preparatory courses since 2000 and trained the interpreters registered with the Home Office between 2002 and 2006. She took the DPSI Portuguese/English Law and Diploma in Translation English <> Portuguese exams through the CIoL in 1998 and 2001 respectively. She is a qualified Paralegal/Legal Secretary, and she worked as a legal secretary for several years in Portugal. She is also the author & publisher of the Glossary for Public Service Interpreters (now available in 11 languages). Helena teaches the CI and DCI courses, the DPSI Online Portuguese (Law & Health), the DPSI Law Intensive course, the Rare Languages course as well as the DipTrans Online EN<>Portuguese. Helena is registered on the NRPSI and is a member of the CIoL, Critical Link and the President of ACIS – Association of Community Interpreters.

DPSI Online Webinar Reviews

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Maria Churchwell

Informative and to the point. Includes practical suggestions as well as the theory behind ethics.

Informative and to the point. Includes practical suggestions as well as the theory behind ethics.

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