Question juridique clé
Whether the psychiatric expert opinion remained usable despite the appellant's daughter translating the interview.
Solution extraite
The report was still usable, but the use of a family member as interpreter generally reduces probative value; here the defect did not निर्णure the result because communication was in any event significantly impaired and the medical record otherwise supported the assessment.
Motifs extraits
Relatives are generally unsuitable as interpreters in psychiatric examinations due to lack of independence and risk of distorted translation. Yet the defect is not decisive when the examiner could not have carried out a materially better verbal assessment even with a professional interpreter and when the record independently supports the conclusions.