Judge highlights cost of interpreter...

https://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/crime/judge-highlights-cost-of-interpreter-as-he-adjourns-case-of-polish-man-charged-with-voyeurism-5024280

9th Mar 2025

Judge highlights cost of interpreter as he adjourns case of Polish man charged with voyeurism

[…] At Antrim Magistrates' Court, sitting in Ballymena, where the defendant was assisted by a Polish language interpreter, the case was set to be adjourned to April 1 for a Preliminary Enquiry - the legal step to send the matter to the Crown Court.

District Judge Nigel Broderick asked if a four week adjournment was realistic "as the taxpayer has to pay for an interpreter every time the defendant comes to court" and instead the case was adjourned to April 15.

PQ: 4 March 2025

https://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2025-02-25.33694.h

Department for Work and Pensions: Translation Services

Department for Work and Pensions written question – answered at on 4 March 2025.

Rupert Lowe Reform UK, Great Yarmouth

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 18 February 2025 to Question 30518 on Department for Work and Pensions: Translation Services, what the spend in social security benefits was on people receiving those interpretation services by language of interpretation.

Andrew Western The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

This information is not collected by DWP, and thus is not available.

"sentencing adjourned because interpreter was only booked for half a day"

https://www.lincsonline.co.uk/boston/factory-worker-was-almost-three-times-legal-drink-drive-limi-9406617/

04 March 2025

[…] However, sentencing was adjourned because his interpreter was only booked for half a day. […]