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‘Extremely poor’: Translator conned his way into court role based on bogus qualifications
An interpreter with “extremely poor” translation skills conned his way into a job in London’s courts and tribunals on the basis of forged qualifications, a court heard.
Fake court interpreter earned £65,500 from 140 cases including grooming gang trial
Mirwais Patang forged qualifications and stole a legitimate interpreter’s identity
Translation work for foreign crime suspects costs UK £450,000 a week
Ministry of Justice spent £23.4 million in just over a year, much of it on Polish, Lithuanian and Romanian speakers
House of Lords on NHS interpreters
The care of interpreters is an incredibly complex question and entirely depends on where they are sited. It is the responsibility of individual trusts to look after interpreters in hospital settings but, in other settings, it may be that of other organisations.
