https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/23014898.prosecutors-drop-charges-oxford-cannabis-farmer-teen/
4th October 2022
Prosecutors dropped charges against a cannabis farmer who claimed to have been enslaved into the drugs trade - and whose lawyer was forced to use Google Translate after an interpreter failed to show-up for a second time. […]
As no interpreter had turned up at court, defence barrister Lyall Thompson had struggled to communicate with his client at a pre-hearing conference in the cells.
“He suggested we communicate through Google Translate. He seems to rather expect that to be the way the courts operate, because there wasn’t an interpreter on a previous occasion,” the barrister said.
At that previous hearing, the advocate then representing Hoang said he had tried speaking to the teenager in French – the former colonial language of what is now Vietnam – before turning to the Google translation app. […]
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