Fair Trials is the global criminal justice watchdog, campaigning for fairness, equality and justice

The right to interpretation and translation in criminal proceedings is fundamental to a fair trial, yet fifteen years after the adoption of Directive 2010/64/EU, significant and systemic failures persist across EU Member States. Our research showed that in 2020, the transposition of the Directive into the law of Member States had been broadly completed.

Fair Trials and the European Criminal Bar Association (ECBA) have intervened before the Supreme Court of Spain in a case that raises serious concerns about how compensation is awarded for wrongful pre-trial detention.