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MPs to probe interpreter deal

Law Society Gazette   /   News   /   19 July 2012

A high-profile parliamentary committee has launched an inquiry into the controversial deal between the Ministry of Justice and the private company contracted to provide court interpreters

Courtroom interpreter 'savings' evaporate

Law Society Gazette   /   News   /   19 July 2012

The Ministry of Justice has admitted that £12m of savings predicted for the first year of controversial new arrangements for courtroom interpreting ‘will probably not be achieved’

Man kept in cells for days as translator unavailable

Ashford Herald   /   News   /   19 July 2012

An asylum seeker who broke into an empty house to find somewhere to sleep was kept in jail for two nights as police tried to find an Arabic translator

New Inquiry: Interpretation and Translation services and the Applied Language Solutions contract

Justice Committee   /   News   /   18 July 2012

The Justice Select Committee is launching a call for written evidence on 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


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