Rule 5 Policies for Interpreted Proceedings in the Courts of the State of Hawaiʻi

When someone applies to become a certified court interpreter in Hawaiʻi, they get a copy of the official rules that spell out how interpreters must act in court. These rules are called the Code of Professional Conduct for Court Interpreters, and the Hawaiʻi Supreme Court first put them in place back in 1995.

Learning this code is a required part of becoming certified. Applicants study it during their basic training, and they are tested on it too. Both the written English test and the ethics test check whether applicants understand these professional conduct rules.

Once someone becomes a certified interpreter, they must continue following this code every time they work in court. This applies even if the code gets updated or changed later on. In short, the rules of conduct are not just something interpreters learn once. They are a standard interpreters must follow for as long as they work in Hawaiʻi courts.