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ALS Webinar: what a tangled web we weave, when we are trying to… deceive?

Yelena   /   Video and Audio Content   /   13 October 2012

Capita’s ALS (now redundant and transformed to Capita Translation and Interpreting) has received immense national coverage over the last 8 months for all the wrong reasons: they kept getting their facts wrong: failing to send interpreters to courts, sending them late, sending wrong language interpreters, failing to vet and assess them. Yet, they claimed everything was hunky dory.

Al Jazeera: Selling off Britain: Lost in translation?

Al Jazeera English   /   Video and Audio Content   /   10 October 2012

Legal experts in Britain are warning there may have been a breach in the criminal justice system, due to failures in the courts' translation service, one of several key public services that has been privatised

Audio: Full BBC Radio Report on ALS with Follow-up Interview

BBC Radio Lincolnshire   /   Video and Audio Content   /   09 August 2012

You would expect the information used in our courts to be the best quality possible, but it seems that some translation services are not up to standard

VIDEO: BBC - Court interpreter checks 'non-existent'

BBC News   /   Video and Audio Content   /   09 August 2012

It has been revealed that interpreters from a private firm have been working in courts in England and Wales without criminal record checks


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