Analysis and Comment
'We are looking at a real opportunity. No longer do the media label interpreters as scroungers, the courts can recognise an interpreter of quality and work can be done with government on ensuring trained, registered interpreters are in court working for fair pay, and being respected for it.'
'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'
