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Grantham court: Friend takes place of translator in court

Grantham Journal   /   HMCTS Interpreting Reports   /   29 December 2014

A Romanian man who admits theft and attempted theft of more than £2,000 worth of chewing gum and other items from two supermarkets had to rely on his English speaking friend to translate in court when no interpreter turned up

Costs questioned over 5,532 police interpreter requests for help in 75 languages

Telegraph and Argus   /   News   /   28 December 2014

Police had requests for interpreters able to translate 75 different languages in West Yorkshire during the last year, force statistics have revealed

Complaints about Capita's Framework Agreement (or lack of)

Brendan Pells   /   Analysis and Comment   /   13 December 2014

Whenever apologists for the failings of Capita TI appear before Parliamentary Committees, they always present the declining number of complaints as evidence that the contract is getting better and better. I've done some analysis of the published statistics, and it throws up some interesting figures. 

E-mail to Public Accounts Committee

Brendan Pells   /   Letters   /   13 December 2014

Capita TI would not have so many Tier 3 linguists if HMCTS was not prepared to turn a blind eye to their inappropriate usage


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