{"id":5288,"date":"2014-12-31T10:30:43","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T10:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=5288"},"modified":"2014-12-31T10:30:43","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T10:30:43","slug":"friend-deputises-when-capita-interpreter-fails-to-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=5288","title":{"rendered":"Friend deputises when Capita interpreter fails to show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2013\/01\/scales_of_justice.png\" alt=\"image of scales of justice\" width=\"204\" height=\"208\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1066\" \/>On 29th December the Grantham Journal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.granthamjournal.co.uk\/news\/local\/grantham-court-friend-takes-place-of-translator-in-court-1-6494155\">reported<\/a> on the case of a Romanian man appearing before Grantham Magistrates Court charged with the theft of &pound;2,000 worth of chewing gum and other items from two Lincolnshire supermarkets.<\/p>\n<p>31 year-old Ionut Dumitru Nae of Coventry, had pleaded guilty on 24th November to attempting to take &pound;900 worth of gum and other items from Morrisons in Stamford and then stealing more packs of chewing gum, champagne and other products to the value of pound;1,500 from Asda in Grantham.<\/p>\n<p>However, the defendant had to rely on the assistance of his English-speaking friend to translate in court when no interpreter turned up.<\/p>\n<p><em>Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/linguistlounge.org\/all-articles\/court-and-tribunal-interpreting-reports\/1053-grantham-court-friend-takes-place-of-translator-in-court\">Linguist Lounge<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 29th December the Grantham Journal reported on the case of a Romanian man appearing before Grantham Magistrates Court charged with the theft of &pound;2,000 worth of chewing gum and other items from two Lincolnshire supermarkets. 31 year-old Ionut Dumitru Nae of Coventry, had pleaded guilty on 24th November to attempting to take &pound;900 worth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,32,15],"tags":[31,22,33,20],"class_list":["post-5288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-media","category-politics","tag-crapita","tag-language","tag-media-2","tag-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5288","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=5288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5289,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5288\/revisions\/5289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}