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More relatives act as interpreters in courts
'[...] Applied Language Solutions promised the Court that they would be able to provide an interpreter next week. Given their utter failure to provide one on two consecutive occasions nobody believed them [...]'
Applied Language Solutions supplies a Lithuanian interpreter who speaks broken Russian instead
It's shocking that ALS "stars" can get away with such poor performance on a daily basis
ALS Vietnamese interpreter: a complete joke. Appeal is underway
'The ladies were convinced that the Vietnamese defendant had no chance of fully understanding the sentencing guidelines that were discussed, the explanation behind his imprisonment, or any other aspects of his future'
Courts need to be clearly understood
Judge Jonathan Durham Hall did not hold back when he criticised failings in the new system to provide translators during court proceedings for both defendants and witnesses, branding one particular instance a ‘disgrace’
