{"id":2563,"date":"2013-08-27T11:41:55","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T11:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=2563"},"modified":"2013-08-27T11:42:27","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T11:42:27","slug":"replacement-interpreter-has-to-leave-after-half-and-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=2563","title":{"rendered":"Replacement interpreter has to leave after 30 minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/linguistlounge.org\/all-articles\/court-and-tribunal-interpreting-reports\/932-a-replacement-interpreter-has-to-go-half-an-hour-after-the-booked-start-time\">Reposted from RPSI Linguist Lounge<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Barbara Hecht writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I represented a 52 year-old woman of good character needing an interpreter, first appearance 10 am start &#8211; she was in virtual court so she was in the police station. The interpreter was there early and promptly (and spoke the language required well) but&#8230;there was a part heard trial in another court where no interpreter had been arranged. So they took my interpreter, and my woman in the police station who had already been there from 6 pm the night before had to wait.<\/p>\n<p>When I raised this with the trial <acronym title=\"District Judge\">DJ<\/acronym> and said she was diabetic, she took the view that she could wait a bit because the police would look after her and carried on hearing submissions a bit longer in the part heard trial. A replacement interpreter was booked to come at 1.45 pm. When I found the replacement interpreter at 2.15 pm because the matter was put back to 2.30, he said he had to go!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reposted from RPSI Linguist Lounge. Barbara Hecht writes: I represented a 52 year-old woman of good character needing an interpreter, first appearance 10 am start &#8211; she was in virtual court so she was in the police station. The interpreter was there early and promptly (and spoke the language required well) but&#8230;there was a part [&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-2563","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\/2563","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=2563"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2566,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563\/revisions\/2566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}