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No Vietnamese interpreter was available for the hearing at Bradford Crown Court.
The Ministry of Justice is pressing ahead with a procurement process for new language services contracts, despite being told by parliamentarians conducting a major court interpreting inquiry to call a halt because the system has gone 'badly wrong'.
A Lords committee currently conducting a major inquiry into court interpreting services is so alarmed by what it has heard so far that it has taken the drastic step of urging the lord chancellor to halt a procurement process for new language services contracts until its concerns are addressed.
The company contracted by the Ministry of Justice to provide court interpreting makes a profit of only two pence per £1, a House of Lords inquiry has been told.
