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CrimeLine survey reveals extent of problem with arranging interpreters in criminal cases
'CrimeLine asked its 18,000 readers to report back in relation to criminal cases involving the use of an appointed interpreter during the week 12th – 16th March 2012'
Ex-ALS: No longer interested
'ALS has contacted me many times and I have informed them many times that I do not wish to work for them but they keep calling me'
Applied Language Solutions: I say ‘Tomato’
I say ‘Tomato’, interpreter says ‘Potato’. I say ‘Potato’, interpreter says ‘Tomato’. Tomato. Potato. Potato? Tomato? Everyone thinks I’ve given inconsistent evidence, my credibility is shot to pieces, I’ve lost my case.
Lost in Translation
't some point my Polish client asked what he'd been sentenced to, because an interpreter booked for him at court "could not speak English, he just stood there, mute"
