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Courts: Interpreting Services

UK Parliament   /   News   /   20 November 2025

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what data his Department holds on the number of interpreters used in the court system in each of the last fives years; and what languages these interpreters were for.

No Kurdish interpreter available

Daily Mirror   /   HMCTS Interpreting Reports   /   13 November 2025

A plea hearing was adjourned today after no Kurdish interpreter was available for Ahmadi. A three-week trial is scheduled for March 2026.

Google translate used by court to explain to defendant what's happening

Daily Mirror   /   HMCTS Interpreting Reports   /   13 October 2025

A district judge instructed the court clerk to type into Google Translate 'Can you type in ‘probation need extra time to prepare your report, your case is being adjourned to October 22 when you will be produced at court and an interpreter will be present’?

Lost for Words

Private Eye   /   Analysis and Comment   /   17 September 2025

Global translation firm The Big Word promises its services are "eradicating the final barrier of global communication". But not, it seems, with the help of happy translators.


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