Analysis and Comment
'Reforms are supposed to improve standards and quality, not to diminish them, and if there is any common sense left within the current government and civil service, it’d better prevail and soon'
The new court interpreting service outsourced to Capita’s Applied Language Solutions continues hitting news publications all over the country
'I have now no doubt in my mind that the MoJ’s refusal to release details of court interpreting figures for this year, i.e. while ALS has been in operation, under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, is nothing but an attempt to hide a picture which looks ugly, if not incredibly bad'
'Despite the largely publicised story and ALS’s disciplinary procedures following bad quality of interpreting, the interpreter was not suspended or removed from their register'
