Bath resident Jaroslaw Nowacki was appearing at Bristol Crown Court on Wednesday 30th August to answer a charge of possession of a kitchen knife in a public place without good reason or lawful authority.<\/p>\n
However, His Honour Judge Euan Ambrose was unaware until the hearing that Nowacki would need the services an interpreter.<\/p>\n
After confirming the defendant was originally from Poland, the judge decided to adjourn the plea hearing until 6th September to arrange for an interpreter to be in attendance.<\/p>\n
But due to Nowacki’s limited grasp of English, he did not understand what he was being told and Judge Ambrose turned to Google Translate to get his message across.<\/p>\n
“Whether Google Translate will accurately translate what I want to say I don’t know,” said the judge.<\/p>\n
After spending several minutes typing out a message, Judge Ambrose printed it off and it was handed to Nowacki for him to read in the dock.<\/p>\n
Nowacki then confirmed that he understood the message and the case was adjourned.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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The shambles that is the Ministry of Justice’s outsourcing of court interpreting services continues, although it does not have such a high media profile these days.<\/p>\n