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Daily Mail: Trials collapse as interpreter shortage cripples the courts
National Audit Office finds 182 magistrate trials between January and March have collapsed due to lack of interpreter
How many people are on remand because they did not have an interpreter? The Ministry does not know!
“There is no central record which goes into the level of detail you request"
Suppression of information by MoJ
'[...]although the MoJ is paying Capita big fat wads of taxpayers’ cash to gather this data, the MoJ is choosing not to ask for all of the data it is paying for, even though it is perfectly entitled to do so'
Examples of unqualified interpreters used by ALS/Capita
'Before 30th January these people would not have been allowed to interpret in a courtroom. Somehow, overnight, they become good enough.'
