HMCTS Interpreting Reports
Does it take a human death to get rid of ALS?
'Question: How long are ALS going to get away with it? Answer: Until someone dies!'
Has the MoJ given their staff an instruction to hush up ALS failures?
When my colleague tried to draw the usher's attention to the fact that the defendant's interpreter was not really interpreting, the usher did not seem interested and just said, 'Yes, we know'
Incomplete interpretation by an ALS linguist
The linguist was also confused whether waiting times should be signed off by the court
ALS linguist travels 470 miles, refuses to interpret in cells
'The well-known ALS statement about the numbers of qualified interpreters and their ability to supply every court with all language interpreters within 25 miles radius is not even funny any more'
