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It was a bad week for solicitor-general Edward Garnier, starting with a ticking-off from the speaker for his "eccentric" habit of turning his back on the House while he was trying to reassure MPs concerned about the state of the monopoly contract on foreign language interpreting in courts (Eyes passim).
'Shafi, from Pakistan, was not asked to confirm his address or date of birth as an interpreter had not been provided'
The shadow justice minister has criticised as 'self-serving' performance data released on the company contracted to provide court interpreters
The Judiciary has begun to speak out against the private contract for court interpreting awarded by the Ministry of Justice to Applied Language Solutions, owned by Capita, which came into operation on 30th January 2012
