Thursday 11 July 2013

Legal Aid debate - 11 July 2013

http://www.theyworkforyou.com/lords/?id=2013-07-11a.444.1 

Legal Aid — Motion to Take Note 
11 July 2013

[…] "If the Government want to see the kind of chaos that price-competitive tendering brings to justice, they need only look at the issue of interpreters. Barristers wait for days in court for Serco, which now deals with the interpreter system, to deliver an interpreter. I have heard of young barristers storing multilingual phrases in their phones so that they can explain to their clients that the interpreter has not turned up. Also, the defendant is often not produced by Serco. The waste in the criminal justice system is often about large companies bidding for and securing a contract at prices on which they cannot deliver. We then end up with no cost savings at all." […]


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