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Comment: Outsourcing interpreters has turned the courts into a freak show

politics.co.uk   /   News   /   04 April 2012

Professional interpreters will not work under slavery conditions, subsidising the criminal justice system and being forced to sit unaccredited tests well below standard

ALS used my details and allocated a booking without consent

Marta   /   HMCTS Interpreting Reports   /   04 April 2012

'It is very disturbing, the more so as it is apparent that they had used my details without my knowledge or permission and in the process even given me a fictitious address'

Urdu or Punjabi - no difference, ALS linguist can only say one sentence every 5 minutes

ILT   /   HMCTS Interpreting Reports   /   03 April 2012

'How can ALS claim that they only employ qualified linguists, all RPSIs apparently, if this particular linguist is not even aware of this crucial interpreting technique and still gets to interpret for Crown Courts?!'

A welcome opinion

Bradford Telegraph and Argus - Readers' Letters   /   Opinions and Concerns   /   03 April 2012

'Hats off to Judge Durham Hall for having the courage to state the obvious, which is that the new Ministry of Justice framework for supplying court interpreters through a private monopoly contractor is a complete disaster, and that the old system “worked perfectly well'


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