The accused was charged with impaired driving offences.
A pretrial voir dire was held to determine if three proposed unaccredited interpreters possessed the necessary skills to interpret the proceedings for the accused, whose primary language is the rare Digoron dialect of Ossetian.
Applying the principles from R. v. Tran, the court assessed the competency of the proposed interpreters.
The court found that none of the candidates, despite their qualifications in other dialects or languages, could provide the required level of continuous and accurate interpretation for the accused.
Consequently, the court ruled that the proposed interpreters were not suitable, necessitating a renewed search for a qualified interpreter.
