{"id":5490,"date":"2015-02-04T09:03:36","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T09:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=5490"},"modified":"2015-02-04T09:16:30","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T09:16:30","slug":"capita-ordered-to-pay-nearly-16000-over-interpreter-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=5490","title":{"rendered":"Capita ordered to pay nearly &pound;16,000 over interpreter failure"},"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\" \/>Capita Translating &amp; Interpreting has been ordered to pay costs of &pound;16,000 by judge <a href=\"http:\/\/www.judiciary.gov.uk\/about-the-judiciary\/who-are-the-judiciary\/biographies\/biography-pfd\/\">Sir James Munby<\/a>, president of the family division, over its failure to provide interpreters seven times in the course of a single adoption case, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2015\/feb\/02\/capita-failure-provide-interpreters-family-courts\">The Guardian reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The case in question was initiated in the family court in 2012. On six occasions at Dover Family Proceedings Court and Canterbury County Court, Capita T&amp;I&#8217;s interpreters failed to appear or arrived too late, forcing the abandonment of hearings at which the Slovak-speaking parents were contesting the removal of their children. When the case was transferred to the High Court in London in May 2014 to be heard by Sir James, Capita T&amp;I&#8217;s interpreters once again failed to appear. He was forced to adjourn the proceedings and ordered that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/hm-courts-and-tribunals-service\">HM Courts and Tribunal Service<\/a> (HMCTS) should provide interpreters instead.<\/p>\n<p>In his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.judiciary.gov.uk\/judgments\/in-the-matter-of-capita-translation-and-interpreting-limited\/\">judgement<\/a> (PDF) Sir James states:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There have been serial failures by Capita in this case against a background of wider systemic problems&#8230; [These were] not minor but extensive, and, at two different stages of the litigation, they had a profound effect on the conduct of the proceedings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sir James ordered Capita to pay Kent County Council &pound;15,927.36.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capita Translating &amp; Interpreting has been ordered to pay costs of &pound;16,000 by judge Sir James Munby, president of the family division, over its failure to provide interpreters seven times in the course of a single adoption case, The Guardian reports. The case in question was initiated in the family court in 2012. On six [&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-5490","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\/5490","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=5490"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5495,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5490\/revisions\/5495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}