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'[...]the ongoing crisis in court interpreting services led the shadow attorney general to urge Dominic Grieve to issue contempt proceedings against Applied Language Solutions, which holds the contract to supply interpreting services in England and Wales'
'I care about this issue because everyone deserves justice. Imagine how you would feel if you were on trial in a foreign country and you couldn’t make your defence because no one could be found who could interpret English correctly for you.'
Further to our statement on 22 March regarding ALS and interpreters’ details we would like to provide additional clarification
'The Ministry of Justice are receiving daily management information from the contractor concentrating on priority areas of interpreter availability and fulfilment of bookings. I have no plans to place these reports in the Library.'
