The papers in this volume serve to reinforce from many different perspectives the argument that achieving quality in interpreting must be a shared responsibility with the many actors and institutions interpreters work amongst. Taking these papers together, a slowly emerging perspective is that quality thus depends not only on the technical skills and ethics of interpreters, but equally upon the ethics and communication skills of all other professionals that serve multilingual populations. This fifth collection of Critical Link papers, like its predecessors, provides a useful map to see the extent to which this awareness is - even if unevenly - nevertheless growing in an increasing number of countries around the world.