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Yorkshire Post   /   News   /   05 June 2014

Taxpayers have been left with a £3,000 bill when a Lithuanian was prosecuted for stealing two plastic bags worth 10p each - and a Latvian speaker was sent to translate for him

Artemis   /   HMCTS Interpreting Reports   /   30 May 2014

Three Capita failures in Harrow Crown Court on Wednesday 29/05/14

Law Society Gazette   /   News   /   28 May 2014

The head of the Family Division has branded arrangements for providing court interpreters ‘unacceptable’ after he was forced to abandon a final adoption hearing as no one attended to translate for Slovak-speaking parents

Hugh Muir, the Guardian   /   Analysis and Comment   /   27 May 2014

Last year, MPs castigated the Ministry of Justice for its "shambolic" handling of the court translation contract, which was given to Capita. Interpreters failed to turn up, leading to the cancellation of trials, and others turned up but botched the job. Since then, the news has continued to be sorrowful.