It has recently been revealed that court translators are costing the British tax payer £60,000 a day. Such services were privatised in 2012 and the Ministry of Justice has said that this privatisation has enabled them to save £38million to date. However, a recent talking point on LBC radio posed the question, why do we bother employing the services of translators at all?
Not really anything called British Law, Scotland has always had its own legal system and still does. Other than that agree with main points…
Capita was taken to court by a Local Authority, after if failed to provide interpreters for a hearing.
http://www.lawgazette.co.uk/law/law-reports/costs/5047398.fullarticle
Quite right, Scottish law has indeed always been separate, but what I meant by British law is the law which was formed in (and applied in) England and Wales collectively – which is often based on statutes laid down in the British parliament.
I think a fine is the least they were due. They should have lost the contract altogether.