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'In this building, we have been badly affected by the change to one contractor and I’ve ensured that the difficulties have been communicated to the senior presiding judge and to the management of the courts and tribunals service'
'A practical joke? It would be, if it wasn’t about justice, how many wake-up calls do ministers need?'
The Ministry of Justice’s privatisation and outsourcing of interpreting services is proving to be more costly and inefficient than the services they replaced according to Interpreters for Justice which represents professional interpreters who are members of the Association of Police and Court Interpreters (APCI) and the Society of Public Service Interpreters (SPSI)
'If one can’t conceive the idea that one becomes a judge just because one can read law books and have a good sense of fairness, one shouldn’t be capable to believe that one can become a court interpreter just because one can speak more than one language and went on to attend one-day interpreting ‘non-accredited’ certification course.'
