HMCTS Interpreting Reports
A chat with an ALS linguist: courts may use NRPSI direct again
'I managed to talk to the court staff, too. They said they'd never seen such an astonishing number of double bookings, no shows and other cock-ups in the whole of their working life.'
Court Interpreting Statistics Collected by ALS
'This simply beggars belief and shows yet another fundamental flaw in this whole absurd system'
ALS interpreter dismissed from court only to return on another case
'[...] to my astonishment and disgust the person present at court was no other than the same Hindi ALS worker who had been dismissed by the judge from another case I observed earlier in the week'
ALS interpreter sent home by Crown Court Judge for being incompetent
Qualified interpreter steps in to save the day
