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Cambridgeshire courts were left in “chaos” when a private contractor failed to provide adequate numbers of interpreters for defendants at trials and other legal hearings, a Parliamentary committee has ruled
"Almost everything that could go wrong did go wrong." So said Margaret Hodge, chair of the Commons public accounts committee (PAC), in a scathing report on the Ministry of Justice's disastrous decision to outsource court interpreting services
Ministers' outsourcing of court interpreting through a £42m contract with a private provider has resulted in "total chaos" while providing an "appalling" service, a watchdog has found
A courtroom translation firm that had a dog listed on its books has been fined 'a risible' £2,200, despite letting cases collapse and criminals walk free because it could not provide qualified interpreters
