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Missing interpreter costs day in court case

Yorkshire Post   /   News   /   07 March 2012

A High Court judge has apologised to a jury after a whole day was lost in a trial because an interpreter failed to turn up

Defendant turns out to be ex-ALS ‘linguist’

Anka   /   HMCTS Interpreting Reports   /   07 March 2012

'[...] the defence interpreter told me that his friend - the defendant (who needed an interpreter), used to work for ALS, but they never paid him, so he stopped providing his services to them'

Declining court jobs

Sadoon   /   Letters   /   06 March 2012

'Let's fight for our profession and defend our jobs and let us not allow anyone to belittle our skills and experience which we earned through professional qualifications, working over many years so we definitely deserve better than what ALS has to offer'

More Wasted Costs

Collator   /   HMCTS Interpreting Reports   /   06 March 2012

'Applied Language Solutions are a commercial company which procured a multi-million pound contract. They need to be held accountable when they accept a booking to attend court; failure to attend is a clear breach of the contract.'


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