25th January
2020
[…] "7. On 4th
November the independent social worker did not attend Court as he was double
booked. In any event the hearing could not be effective because the translation
company, Translation Express, instructed to translate the local authority
evidence for the parents in good time for them to read it and respond to it,
had only provided those documents the Saturday before the hearing. On
inspection by the Court appointed interpreters, it appeared they had been
translated using a computer programme, and whole sections of the documents made
little sense. I had no option but to adjourn again to afford the parents the
chance to understand the case against them and to prepare statements in
response." […]
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