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'In this building, we have been badly affected by the change to one contractor and I’ve ensured that the difficulties have been communicated to the senior presiding judge and to the management of the courts and tribunals service'
The Ministry of Justice’s privatisation and outsourcing of interpreting services is proving to be more costly and inefficient than the services they replaced according to Interpreters for Justice which represents professional interpreters who are members of the Association of Police and Court Interpreters (APCI) and the Society of Public Service Interpreters (SPSI)
'The interpreter was replaced by a volunteer from the public gallery, who told the court she was boycotting the agency but was willing to help'
Rather than the stance of continued denial of what all on the ground can see is happening, at the very least the Ministry of Justice should forthwith consult the authentic interpreters’ groups
