HMCTS Interpreting Reports

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’?

Hearings adjourned due to interpreter issues

Lancashire Telegraph   /   HMCTS Interpreting Reports   /   22 June 2025

Bo Yang, 40, appeared at Burnley Crown Court on Thursday (June 19) and entered his pleas after previous hearings had to be adjourned due to interpreter issues.

'Dine and dash' homeless man 'missing' amid court confusion

Jon Austin, Sunday Express   /   HMCTS Interpreting Reports   /   09 June 2025

A farce resembling a scene from a Carry On film saw a judge told that neither the prosecution nor defence had any idea where the defendant was after a string of aborted hearings due to a lack of interpreters.


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