{"id":1746,"date":"2013-05-03T11:34:36","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T11:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=1746"},"modified":"2013-07-06T08:27:14","modified_gmt":"2013-07-06T08:27:14","slug":"capita-interpreter-perverting-the-course-of-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=1746","title":{"rendered":"Interpreter perverting the course of justice?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipswichstar.co.uk\/news\/ipswich_interpreter_could_face_prosecution_after_trial_collapses_1_2179145\">Ipswich Star reports<\/a><a><\/a> today that interpreter is under investigation following the collapse of a trial, in which she was said to have coached a victim of alleged grievous bodily harm while he was giving his evidence in a case at Ipswich Crown Court.<\/p>\n<p>The trial was in its third day when Recorder Peter Wallis discharged the jury, stating that the interpreter was not reliable.<\/p>\n<p>One of the 3 defendants in the dock clearly heard the Tamil interpreter from 25 feet as witness Niruban Amirthalingham was about to resume his testimony.<\/p>\n<p>The female interpreter could now face possible charges of contempt of court or perverting the course of justice.<\/p>\n<p>The incident took place after the trial resumed after lunch on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Some 5-10 minutes into the cross-examination of Mr. Amirthalingham by Matthew Jewell, representing defendant Karunanidhy Nallathamby &#8211; one of 3 defendants in the case &#8211; the barrister\u2019s attention was drawn to his client wishing to speak to him.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Jewell subsequently asked for an adjournment, requesting that the jury, witness and interpreter leave the court.<\/p>\n<p>The barrister then told Recorder Wallis his client had heard the interpreter tell Mr. Amirthalingham in Tamil before the jury returned to court: &#8220;If you get a chance tell them they snatched the bar from you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Crown brought its own interpreter to court yesterday (Thursday) to verify what was being alleged by Mr. Nallathamby.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Jewell pointed out the court did not know if any other exchanges had previous taken place between the the interpreter and the witness.<\/p>\n<p>Recorder Wallis remarked that on the face of things the interpreter&#8217;s action it was not merely contempt of court and could constitute a case of perverting the course of justice.<\/p>\n<p>Crown Court trials are believed to cost at least &pound;3,000 a day, so this trial had already cost the public purse &pound;9,000 before collapsing due to an unprofessional interpreter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ipswich Star reports today that interpreter is under investigation following the collapse of a trial, in which she was said to have coached a victim of alleged grievous bodily harm while he was giving his evidence in a case at Ipswich Crown Court. The trial was in its third day when Recorder Peter Wallis [&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-1746","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\/1746","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=1746"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2265,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions\/2265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}