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Suffolk: Parliamentary inquiry into court interpreter shambles welcomed
A top-level inquiry into the shambolic new court interpreter system – highlighted by The Star earlier this year – was welcomed today
High profile case gets adjourned as ALS provides no interpreter
ALS fails to supply an interpreter to Peterborough Magistrates' Court
Law Society calls for evidence of court interpreting failures
The Justice Select Committee has announced an inquiry into the provision of interpretation and translation services since Applied Language Solutions (ALS) began operating as the Ministry of Justice's sole contractor for language services in February 2012, and has called for evidence
Private Eye: Well-done, Wheeldon
'So. Farewell then Gavin Wheeldon, who sold his foreign language interpreting firm first to the Ministry of Justice and then to Capita - even though it was being boycotted by hundreds of the interpreters needed by the court service'
