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MoJ ditches new court interpreting system in face of major backlash

This is just a sorry mess, and it needs sorting, quick. Applied Language Solutions cannot deliver what it has promised and simply does not have the capacity to cope. ALS is so desperate it has been making all sorts of ridiculous offers to try to get interpreters to sign up. Most still refuse. It's costing the courts service a fortune, there are no savings, just cases piling up, wasted cost orders flying around, people held in custody longer than they should be. Major disruption. You get what you pay for. A bargain basement deal which sends (when they turn up) boil-in-the-bag mostly unqualified and inexperienced people. The problem is not with short notice appointments. It is a contract with structural flaws, a company seriously out of its depth and a Government department with its head in the sand.

23-Feb-2012

1:20 pm