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Inquiry announced into ALS/Capita contract for court interpreting
Professional interpreter bodies have welcomed the official inquiry announced into the outsourced contract for court interpreting services operated by Applied Language Solutions, owned by Capita
MPs to probe interpreter deal
A high-profile parliamentary committee has launched an inquiry into the controversial deal between the Ministry of Justice and the private company contracted to provide court interpreters
Courtroom interpreter 'savings' evaporate
The Ministry of Justice has admitted that £12m of savings predicted for the first year of controversial new arrangements for courtroom interpreting ‘will probably not be achieved’
Man kept in cells for days as translator unavailable
An asylum seeker who broke into an empty house to find somewhere to sleep was kept in jail for two nights as police tried to find an Arabic translator
