Practice question
The only person able to interpret the child’s communication is a family member who also will testify. Is that person automatically disqualified as interpreter?
- The child must remain silent
- Yes; no relative may ever interpret
- Only a foreign-language professor may interpret
- No; Section9 permits it, with the interpreter-witness testifying first
- The interpreter may change the account freely
Legal references
- A.M.00-4-07-SC, Rule on Examination of a Child Witness, Sections1,4–5,9–10,13: https://lawphil.net/courts/supreme/am/am_004_07_sc_2000.html
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