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Trial of 10p plastic bag thief costs taxpayers £3,000 after translator mix up
“Criminals must always be brought to justice, but this seems a remarkable amount of taxpayers’ money to spend on a rather minor case.”
L of a farce as taxpayer faces £3,000 translation bill over theft of 10p carrier bags
Taxpayers have been left with a £3,000 bill when a Lithuanian was prosecuted for stealing two plastic bags worth 10p each - and a Latvian speaker was sent to translate for him
Court interpreter contract ‘unacceptable’ – top family judge
The head of the Family Division has branded arrangements for providing court interpreters ‘unacceptable’ after he was forced to abandon a final adoption hearing as no one attended to translate for Slovak-speaking parents
Court translator costs double in a year: Taxpayers' bill now more than £15million after service was outsourced in move branded as shambolic by MPs
The cost to the taxpayer of hiring court interpreters has almost doubled to £15.5million in just one year, according to official figures
