Portuguese Interpreter in London
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Chartered Linguist. Portuguese interpreter & translator in London, qualified & vetted NRPSI registered interpreter
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Pamela Fraher from RTE has a very well researched article about how a court interpreter continued to work on 240 cases after their interpreting was found to be inadequate by the Court of Appeal in 2021.
www.rte.ie/news/investi...
www.rte.ie/news/investi...
Interpreter in overturned FGM conviction worked on over 240 cases
A court interpreter who worked on Ireland's first and only FGM case that was overturned on appeal over translation errors assisted in more than 240 other cases for the Irish Court Services
www.rte.ie
November 15, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Pamela Fraher from RTE has a very well researched article about how a court interpreter continued to work on 240 cases after their interpreting was found to be inadequate by the Court of Appeal in 2021.
www.rte.ie/news/investi...
www.rte.ie/news/investi...
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I vaguely remember some comments on the now-deleted hellsite back in the day. I also remember that the Scottish & Welsh briefings always had an interpreter & Downing Steet sometimes didn't. I didn't know the Government was taken to court over it!
January 11, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I vaguely remember some comments on the now-deleted hellsite back in the day. I also remember that the Scottish & Welsh briefings always had an interpreter & Downing Steet sometimes didn't. I didn't know the Government was taken to court over it!
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I'm reminded of how the UK government had to be taken to court after failing to provide sign language interpreters at Covid briefings.
abilitynet.org.uk/news-blogs/c...
abilitynet.org.uk/news-blogs/c...
Compensation for lack of BSL at Covid briefing
A deaf woman has won a high court ruling against the UK government over the lack of British Sign Language interpreting at official Coronavirus briefings in England.Self-employed actor and writer,
abilitynet.org.uk
January 11, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I'm reminded of how the UK government had to be taken to court after failing to provide sign language interpreters at Covid briefings.
abilitynet.org.uk/news-blogs/c...
abilitynet.org.uk/news-blogs/c...
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A court has requested a Latin interpreter for today's sentencing hearing
LATIN (AMERICAN) INTERPRETER REQUIRED
Luckily they added (American), and someone who speaks Spanish has turned up.
Otherwise the interpreter might have spent the day translating legal asides, but not much else
LATIN (AMERICAN) INTERPRETER REQUIRED
Luckily they added (American), and someone who speaks Spanish has turned up.
Otherwise the interpreter might have spent the day translating legal asides, but not much else
October 24, 2025 at 9:35 AM
A court has requested a Latin interpreter for today's sentencing hearing
LATIN (AMERICAN) INTERPRETER REQUIRED
Luckily they added (American), and someone who speaks Spanish has turned up.
Otherwise the interpreter might have spent the day translating legal asides, but not much else
LATIN (AMERICAN) INTERPRETER REQUIRED
Luckily they added (American), and someone who speaks Spanish has turned up.
Otherwise the interpreter might have spent the day translating legal asides, but not much else
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#49
Intimacies (Katie Kitamura, 2021).
After moving to The Hague for a new job at the Criminal Court the protagonist, an interpreter, faces challenges that are both very intimate and universal. Solitude, finding your place, revealing yourself to people around you if you can. Masterful
#booksky 📚🖋️
Intimacies (Katie Kitamura, 2021).
After moving to The Hague for a new job at the Criminal Court the protagonist, an interpreter, faces challenges that are both very intimate and universal. Solitude, finding your place, revealing yourself to people around you if you can. Masterful
#booksky 📚🖋️
November 17, 2025 at 2:04 AM
#49
Intimacies (Katie Kitamura, 2021).
After moving to The Hague for a new job at the Criminal Court the protagonist, an interpreter, faces challenges that are both very intimate and universal. Solitude, finding your place, revealing yourself to people around you if you can. Masterful
#booksky 📚🖋️
Intimacies (Katie Kitamura, 2021).
After moving to The Hague for a new job at the Criminal Court the protagonist, an interpreter, faces challenges that are both very intimate and universal. Solitude, finding your place, revealing yourself to people around you if you can. Masterful
#booksky 📚🖋️
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It didn’t escalate to violence, but this reminds me of that time ICE agents in Chicago wrongfully tried to arrest a court interpreter.
Agents just approached a man and tried to detain him.
He was a court interpreter. They let him go.
He was a court interpreter. They let him go.
November 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
It didn’t escalate to violence, but this reminds me of that time ICE agents in Chicago wrongfully tried to arrest a court interpreter.
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"The interpreter already messed up one child's age in their translations, which we heard & caught & corrected in the court record. If we hadn't, that child could be deported for 'lying about their age in court.' But the child didn't correct the interpreter, because they're terrified and silent." 34/
December 3, 2025 at 3:18 AM
"The interpreter already messed up one child's age in their translations, which we heard & caught & corrected in the court record. If we hadn't, that child could be deported for 'lying about their age in court.' But the child didn't correct the interpreter, because they're terrified and silent." 34/
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I sat them down to explain. "Not one of those children understands what is happening to them. They all speak indigenous Mayan languages, which is why you heard an interpreter on speakerphone repeat the judge's instructions/questions. They're nodding and staying silent bc they don't want trouble. 33/
December 3, 2025 at 3:17 AM
I sat them down to explain. "Not one of those children understands what is happening to them. They all speak indigenous Mayan languages, which is why you heard an interpreter on speakerphone repeat the judge's instructions/questions. They're nodding and staying silent bc they don't want trouble. 33/
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A lot of societal breakdowns had to go into this situation. Phone call scams, immigrant and language stuff, the lying machine, etc
December 2, 2025 at 8:58 PM
A lot of societal breakdowns had to go into this situation. Phone call scams, immigrant and language stuff, the lying machine, etc
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A patient's family was using an AI phone call screening service and my coworker called with the official hospital interpreter service who listened as the AI told the patient's husband in Chinese that he was going to have to go to jail.
OBVIOUSLY they helped ensure he knew what was going on but?!?
OBVIOUSLY they helped ensure he knew what was going on but?!?
December 2, 2025 at 8:56 PM
A patient's family was using an AI phone call screening service and my coworker called with the official hospital interpreter service who listened as the AI told the patient's husband in Chinese that he was going to have to go to jail.
OBVIOUSLY they helped ensure he knew what was going on but?!?
OBVIOUSLY they helped ensure he knew what was going on but?!?
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A decade of Brexit: Britain falls behind peers in trade & growth…businesses most deeply integrated into European supply chains,including many of the UK’s most productive exporters, felt the sharpest blow, weakening sectors that historically powered national growth.”
www.euronews.com/business/202...
www.euronews.com/business/202...
A decade of Brexit: Britain falls behind peers in trade and growth
Economic analysis shows UK GDP per capita grew up to 10% less than similar nations as firms froze spending and productivity slipped.
www.euronews.com
December 6, 2025 at 7:53 AM
A decade of Brexit: Britain falls behind peers in trade & growth…businesses most deeply integrated into European supply chains,including many of the UK’s most productive exporters, felt the sharpest blow, weakening sectors that historically powered national growth.”
www.euronews.com/business/202...
www.euronews.com/business/202...
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I have other much weirder stories, but the interpreter Code of Ethics guarantees confidentiality and I would have to give too many personal details
November 25, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I have other much weirder stories, but the interpreter Code of Ethics guarantees confidentiality and I would have to give too many personal details
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See also File on Four's investigation of the enshittening of interpreting in healthcare that has led to the death or serious birth injury of some 80 babies in the past 5 years www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - File on 4 Investigates, Lost in Translation
Public service interpreting service accused of failing people who don't speak English.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 2, 2025 at 10:50 AM
See also File on Four's investigation of the enshittening of interpreting in healthcare that has led to the death or serious birth injury of some 80 babies in the past 5 years www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Who have such derisory T&Cs for the interpreter that no one will take it up (especially NRPSI registered interpreters). Another thing the thread above implied - Interpreters are not just for defendants - but witnesses (including victims).
December 2, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Who have such derisory T&Cs for the interpreter that no one will take it up (especially NRPSI registered interpreters). Another thing the thread above implied - Interpreters are not just for defendants - but witnesses (including victims).
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Public service interpreting getting privatised, farmed out to big agencies and enshittified
November 28, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Public service interpreting getting privatised, farmed out to big agencies and enshittified
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As a former military linguist, I always preferred the label "interpreter" because we… weren't linguists.
At least half the reason I pursued a degree in linguistics is because I was called it so often and didn't want to be a fraud.
At least half the reason I pursued a degree in linguistics is because I was called it so often and didn't want to be a fraud.
December 1, 2025 at 6:42 PM
As a former military linguist, I always preferred the label "interpreter" because we… weren't linguists.
At least half the reason I pursued a degree in linguistics is because I was called it so often and didn't want to be a fraud.
At least half the reason I pursued a degree in linguistics is because I was called it so often and didn't want to be a fraud.
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What’s the worst question someone can ask after you tell them your profession? For linguists, it’s definitely “how many languages do you speak?”, but I’m curious what else is happening to the rest of y’all out there?!
November 30, 2025 at 11:58 PM
What’s the worst question someone can ask after you tell them your profession? For linguists, it’s definitely “how many languages do you speak?”, but I’m curious what else is happening to the rest of y’all out there?!
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3. The Witness Care Unit forgetting to tell witnesses to attend trial. Meaning the whole trial has to be adjourned.
November 27, 2025 at 8:02 PM
3. The Witness Care Unit forgetting to tell witnesses to attend trial. Meaning the whole trial has to be adjourned.
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10. Not enough barristers to cover cases. Often - especially in serious, specialised and difficult work such as Rape and Serious Sexual Offences - the CPS will not be able to find an available barrister, due to so many having quit. www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/barrist...
Barristers to quit RASSO work, survey suggests
Barristers cite poor pay and emotional exhaustion for wanting to quit rape and serious sexual offences work.
www.lawgazette.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 8:04 PM
10. Not enough barristers to cover cases. Often - especially in serious, specialised and difficult work such as Rape and Serious Sexual Offences - the CPS will not be able to find an available barrister, due to so many having quit. www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/barrist...
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8. A lift being broken (lying unfixed for weeks because no engineer can be found/afforded), meaning that a disabled witness cannot attend a trial.
November 27, 2025 at 8:03 PM
8. A lift being broken (lying unfixed for weeks because no engineer can be found/afforded), meaning that a disabled witness cannot attend a trial.
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9. Queues to enter the court building taking over an hour, due to insufficient numbers of security staff to conduct the on-the-door checks. Meaning jurors, witnesses, interpreters and defendants are stuck outside the building while the hours tick by.
November 27, 2025 at 8:03 PM
9. Queues to enter the court building taking over an hour, due to insufficient numbers of security staff to conduct the on-the-door checks. Meaning jurors, witnesses, interpreters and defendants are stuck outside the building while the hours tick by.
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7. The ancient court plumbing giving up, meaning no running water or flushing toilets, meaning everybody is sent home.
November 27, 2025 at 8:03 PM
7. The ancient court plumbing giving up, meaning no running water or flushing toilets, meaning everybody is sent home.
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6. The nationwide breakdown of the Crown Court Digital Case System and/or Common Platform.
Happens pretty much weekly. All cases are now digital. When the abysmal infrastructure (which has been in Beta for years) freezes or breaks, everything grinds to a standstill.
Happens pretty much weekly. All cases are now digital. When the abysmal infrastructure (which has been in Beta for years) freezes or breaks, everything grinds to a standstill.
November 27, 2025 at 8:03 PM
6. The nationwide breakdown of the Crown Court Digital Case System and/or Common Platform.
Happens pretty much weekly. All cases are now digital. When the abysmal infrastructure (which has been in Beta for years) freezes or breaks, everything grinds to a standstill.
Happens pretty much weekly. All cases are now digital. When the abysmal infrastructure (which has been in Beta for years) freezes or breaks, everything grinds to a standstill.
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5. The Crown Prosecution Service failing to serve key evidence or critical disclosure until the day of trial, giving insufficient time for the defence to consider it, and causing the trial to be adjourned.
November 27, 2025 at 8:02 PM
5. The Crown Prosecution Service failing to serve key evidence or critical disclosure until the day of trial, giving insufficient time for the defence to consider it, and causing the trial to be adjourned.
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4. Judge having extra hearings shoved into their courtrooms during a trial, meaning that the trial overruns. Or, if the trial cannot overrun - because jurors or the judge have immovable commitments - the trial collapses and is adjourned for a year or two
November 27, 2025 at 8:02 PM
4. Judge having extra hearings shoved into their courtrooms during a trial, meaning that the trial overruns. Or, if the trial cannot overrun - because jurors or the judge have immovable commitments - the trial collapses and is adjourned for a year or two