{"id":1065,"date":"2013-01-13T11:13:47","date_gmt":"2013-01-13T11:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=1065"},"modified":"2013-07-06T08:42:25","modified_gmt":"2013-07-06T08:42:25","slug":"court-interpreting-fiasco-rumbles-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=1065","title":{"rendered":"Court interpreting fiasco rumbles on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2013\/01\/scales_of_justice-150x150.png\" alt=\"image of scales of justice\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1066\" \/>The Capita\/ALS court interpreting fiasco (<a href=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=829\" title=\"\u201cAn object lesson in how not to contract out a public service\u201d\"><em>posts passim<\/em><\/a>) is a story that seems set to run for some time yet.<\/p>\n<p>The crossbench (i.e. independent) peer <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jean_Coussins,_Baroness_Coussins\">Baroness Coussins<\/a>, who is also a Vice-President of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.org.uk\/\">Chartered Institute of Linguists<\/a>, has tabled an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publications.parliament.uk\/pa\/ld\/ldordpap.htm\">oral question for the government in tomorrow&#8217;s House of Lords business<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Her oral question is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Baroness Coussins to ask Her Majesty\u2019s Government what quality criteria they are using to assess the performance of Capita in delivering interpreting services to the criminal justice system.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Many of us either in or associated to the language and legal professions, as well as those interested in the administration of justice will await the Government&#8217;s answer with interest.<\/p>\n<p><em>Hat tip: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Barsacq\">Richard McCarthy<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Capita\/ALS court interpreting fiasco (posts passim) is a story that seems set to run for some time yet. The crossbench (i.e. independent) peer Baroness Coussins, who is also a Vice-President of the Chartered Institute of Linguists, has tabled an oral question for the government in tomorrow&#8217;s House of Lords business. Her oral question is: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15],"tags":[31,22,20],"class_list":["post-1065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-politics","tag-crapita","tag-language","tag-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1065"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2289,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions\/2289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}