UK Parliament Inquiry into the Interpreting and translation services in the courts - Oral evidence

https://committees.parliament.uk/event/22444/formal-meeting-oral-evidence-session/

20 November 2024 - Interpreting and translation services in the courts - Oral evidence

Committee Public Services Committee
Inquiries Interpreting and translation services in the courts, Homecare medicines services - follow-up

Meeting details

At 11:00 am: Oral evidence

Inquiry Interpreting and translation services in the courts

Mrs Raisa McNab Chief Executive Officer at Association of Translation Companies

Bernadette Byrne Council Member at Association of Translation Companies

Mark Rice Global Managing Director at thebigword

At 12:00 pm: Private discussion

Inquiry Homecare medicines services - follow-up 

 

Public Services Committee

Wednesday 20 November 2024

https://parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/8f67de3e-a3e7-4141-a43c-9f22d3203b0b

"an interpreter had not been arranged"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy1v39xgz1o

14 November 2024

Inmate was 'isolated and depressed' before death

[…] Karbauskas, a Lithuanian national, was first remanded into custody at HMP Lincoln on 19 March 2022, at which point he had a suicide and self-harm warning on his records.

It came to light six months later that a mental health referral that was made for him at the time was never actioned.

The jury inquest heard the inmate "spoke very little English" and required an interpreter for appointments and assessments. […]

That referral - which the court heard should have been actioned within 48 hours -did not happen because an interpreter had not been arranged, despite specific notes on the system in which the referral was logged. […]

A Quaker chaplain at the prison also tried to help the inmate, and noted in a statement read to the jury that Karbauskas "spoke no English at all".

Despite efforts to find an interpreter, the chaplain said nobody who spoke Lithuanian could be found, when she saw him. […]

UK Parliament Inquiry into the Interpreting and translation services in the courts - Oral evidence

https://committees.parliament.uk/event/22280/formal-meeting-oral-evidence-session/

13 November 2024 - Interpreting and translation services in the courts - Oral evidence

Committee Public Services Committee

Inquiry Interpreting and translation services in the courts

Meeting details

At 11:00am: Oral evidence

Inquiry Interpreting and translation services in the courts

Larysa Booth Head of Sales at LingvoHouse Translation Services

Reggie Mitchell Strategic Partnerships at Speechmatics

Frankie Williams Chief Legal Officer at DeepL

At 12:00pm: Private discussion

Inquiry Interpreting and translation services in the courts

 

Public Services Committee

Wednesday 13 November 2024

https://www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/a333fe8f-99ec-40af-947b-9b4b986db11b