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Legal Aid Scheme: Translation Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Legal Aid Agency in ensuring solicitors use qualified and security‑vetted interpreters in legally‑aided family proceedings.
Number of court interpreter requests since 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many court interpreters have been requested for translation services in each year since 2020, broken down by the language requested.
Man charged after Churchill statue vandalism has hearing adjourned for an interpreter to attend
The case was adjourned to Monday at the same court so a Dutch interpreter can be provided.
Failed asylum seeker’s sex assault trial abandoned after no interpreter found
The judge said that The Big Word, the firm responsible for supplying interpreters to the courts, was unable to source an interpreter because “one is ill and one is not answering his phone”.
