Judge lost for words as trial halted over lack of interpreter
A JUDGE has criticised a new cost-cutting language translation scheme recently introduced in the courts after he had to halt a trial because no interpreter was provided.
Judge Robert Bartfield yesterday apologised to those affected in the case of a Czech man at Leeds Crown Court, describing it as inexcusable.
“Apart from the waste of time for the jurors, the distress caused to witnesses and the defendant himself, the cost of this now aborted trial is likely to run into thousands of pounds,” he said
