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A judge has slammed the Government’s new interpreting service after a case had to be adjourned twice when a translator did not turn up
Courts were in chaos in the East and North of England and magistrates were claiming defendants’ rights were being compromised by interpreters failing to appear or offering a poor service, and the majority of existing interpreters were boycotting the low wages and poor quality privatised service
'[...]the ongoing crisis in court interpreting services led the shadow attorney general to urge Dominic Grieve to issue contempt proceedings against Applied Language Solutions, which holds the contract to supply interpreting services in England and Wales'
'I care about this issue because everyone deserves justice. Imagine how you would feel if you were on trial in a foreign country and you couldn’t make your defence because no one could be found who could interpret English correctly for you.'
