Use of language interpreter and translation services in courts and tribunals statistics: 30 January 2013 to March 2016

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/use-of-language-interpreter-and-translation-services-in-courts-and-tribunals-statistics-30-january-2013-to-march-2016 
21 July 2016

Use of language interpreter and translation services in courts and tribunals statistics: 30 January 2013 to March 2016

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/use-of-language-interpreter-and-translation-services-in-courts-and-tribunals-statistics-30-january-2013-to-march-2016

Double killer’s hearing put off after interpreter fiasco

http://courtnewsuk.co.uk/double-killers-hearing-put-off-interpreter-fiasco/ 
20 July 2016

Double killer’s hearing put off after interpreter fiasco

An Albanian double murderer saw his extradition case put off for a week after it emerged that none of his hearings have been attended by an interpreter, a court heard today (Weds). Avni Metra, 53, faces 25 years behind bars for the brutal murder of two brothers in 1997 following his conviction by an Albanian court in 2001. […]

"court’s struggle to find an interpreter"

http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/local/14628630.Man_pleads_guilty_to_being_drunk_and_disorderly/ 
19/07/16

[…] This was dropped, however, after magistrates decided that Opoku, who was unable to speak English, simply didn’t understand what the officers were asking.

Wayne Hardy, defending, said: “Mr Opoku fully accepts he was in a drunken state on Sunday evening and he accepts his behaviour was disruptive when the police were trying to sort out the situation.”

Mr Hardy described his client as “a writer with no regular income who lives hand-to-mouth each day as it comes”.

Opoku was given a £90 fine and told that the two nights he had already spent in custody, due to the court’s struggle to find an interpreter, was enough time served.