7 February 2013 by Frances Gibb
‘Shambolic’ outsourcing of
court interpreters
Whitehall officials pushed ahead with a “shambolic”
outsourcing of court interpreting services that led to delays in trials and
lower standards, MPs said yesterday.
In a damning report, the Ministry of Justice is
castigated for failing to heed repeated warnings about the new centralised
service, which has been widely criticised.
It also condemns the Ministry for instructing
officials not to cooperate with an online consultation by the MPs, members of
the Commons Justice Committee.
That obstruction amounts to a contempt of
Parliament which MPs say they “deplore”, adding: “there should be no repetition
of them in future.”
Read more here: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/law/article3679924.ece
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