HMCTS Interpreting Reports

Solicitor gets a Lithuanian speaker from the street to interpret in court

MSamuel   /   HMCTS Interpreting Reports   /   05 April 2012

How can the Ministry of Justice and the HMCTS possibly explain this overnight drop in their requirements for court interpreting? Do walls have ears? Do people have eyes?

ALS used my details and allocated a booking without consent

Marta   /   HMCTS Interpreting Reports   /   04 April 2012

'It is very disturbing, the more so as it is apparent that they had used my details without my knowledge or permission and in the process even given me a fictitious address'

Urdu or Punjabi - no difference, ALS linguist can only say one sentence every 5 minutes

ILT   /   HMCTS Interpreting Reports   /   03 April 2012

'How can ALS claim that they only employ qualified linguists, all RPSIs apparently, if this particular linguist is not even aware of this crucial interpreting technique and still gets to interpret for Crown Courts?!'

More relatives act as interpreters in courts

Gowerdale   /   HMCTS Interpreting Reports   /   03 April 2012

'[...] Applied Language Solutions promised the Court that they would be able to provide an interpreter next week.  Given their utter failure to provide one on two consecutive occasions nobody believed them [...]'


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