Saturday 25 January 2020

"translated using a computer programme"


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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