HMCTS Interpreting Reports
'Fiasco' in case of six men arrested over Bradford cannabis farm
No Vietnamese interpreter was available for the hearing at Bradford Crown Court.
The interpreter, for some reason, was cancelled
The interpreter, for some reason, was cancelled. We need an interpreter.
Case for Romanian defendant adjourned
A man accused of stealing items from a Newtown company will appear at court later this month after an interpreter could not be secured for his initial appearance this week.
Courtwatchers expose a 'wild west'
A mass court observation project which sat in on more than 1,100 hearings has reported that more than a fifth of hearings (230) involved a defendant for whom English was not a first language. An interpreter was not provided in 104 of those cases. Defendants who needed interpreters were ‘some of the worst served by the court’, the report said.
