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Translation services in criminal courts have been a farce ever since Ken Clarke outsourced it all in 2011. Every day interpreters fail to turn up at court, causing huge delays.
But let’s be angry instead at the very notion of ensuring people understand criminal proceedings.
But let’s be angry instead at the very notion of ensuring people understand criminal proceedings.
Also, at the risk of being a stickler, not all of these “foreign criminals” are foreign; this includes Welsh speakers and BSL. And not all of them are criminals. A number will have been found not guilty. Thanks to being able to present their case through an interpreter.
No doubt were it a UK national accused of a crime while on holiday in Romania, The Sun would be quite happy for him to be tried in a Romanian court with no English interpreter. And with no lawyer, natch, given how dreadful the principle of legal aid is.
