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labour.org.uk   /   News   /   13 September 2012

'The NAO has revealed a web of incompetence and complacency at the heart of the Ministry of Justice. The Ministry knew all along that ALS could not deliver the contract but still allowed it to proceed, unleashing chaos in the magistrates and Crown Courts for months.'

The Times, Frances Gibb   /   News   /   13 September 2012

The Ministry of Justice has been castigated over a £90 million contract to a company to provide courts with interpreters that led to chaos in courtrooms

Financial Times   /   News   /   13 September 2012

Courtrooms experienced chaos after the Ministry of Justice awarded a contract for court interpreters to a company clearly unable to deliver, said the chairman of an influential committee of MPs

Law Society Gazette   /   News   /   13 September 2012

The Ministry of Justice has come under fire from public spending watchdogs for awarding a £90m contract for court interpreters to a company that lacked the ability to deliver it