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Massachusetts Guide to Evidence 2025 Edition MA R EVID § 522

Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(a) Definitions. For the purpose of this section, the following words shall have the following meanings:

(1)Interpreter. An “interpreter” is a person who is readily able to interpret written and spoken language simultaneously and consecutively from English to the language of the non-English speaker or from said language to English.

(2)Non-English Speaker. A “non-English speaker” is a person who uses only or primarily a spoken language other than English and cannot speak or understand, or has difficulty in speaking or understanding, the English language.

(b) Privilege. Disclosures made out of court by communications of a non-English speaker through an interpreter to another person shall be a privileged communication, and the interpreter shall not disclose such communication without permission of the non-English speaker.

(c) Scope. The privilege applies when the non-English speaker had a reasonable expectation or intent that the communication would not be disclosed.

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