37.2642, Books: Access to Justice for Minority Language Communities: McEvoy (2026)

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Subject: 37.2642, Books: Access to Justice for Minority Language Communities: McEvoy (2026)

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Date: 11-Aug-2026
From: Flo McClelland [flo at multilingual-matters.com]
Subject: Access to Justice for Minority Language Communities: McEvoy (2026)


Title: Access to Justice for Minority Language Communities
Subtitle: Experiences of Irish Speakers and Irish Sign Language Users
Series Title: Translation, Interpreting and Social Justice in a
Globalised World
Publication Year: 2026

Publisher: Multilingual Matters
           http://www.multilingual-matters.com/
Book URL:
https://www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/?K=9781800419094

Author(s): Gearóidín McEvoy

Hbk ISBN 9781800419094 £114.95 / US$155.95 / €136.95
EPUB ISBN 9781800419117 £20.00 / US$25.00 / €23.00
PDF ISBN 9781800419100 £20.00 / US$25.00 / €23.00

Abstract:

This book explores how minority language users experience access to
justice and the right to a fair trial when they use their language in
the criminal justice system. It investigates the lived experiences of
Irish speakers and deaf Irish Sign Language users who have directly
interacted with the criminal justice system. Treating identity as both
internally constructed and externally imposed, it focuses on the
issues raised when internally constructed identities are
misunderstood, oversimplified and misused by the majority or the
authority.
The two case studies presented here investigate three layers of access
to justice: procedural access, substantive access and symbolic access.
This lens reveals the areas where, in spite of legal protections to
safeguard fairness, minority language users still experience unequal
treatment.
The book provides a nuanced understanding of the experiences of
minority language users and will be of interest to researchers in
translation and interpreting, sociolinguistics and human rights law.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics
                     Translation




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