Save the date of the launch conference for the QUALETRA (Quality in Legal Translation) project. The conference will take place in London, England, on Thursday, 4 April 2013. It will be hosted by London Metropolitan University, one of the project partners. A Call for Papers and details about the conference venue and programme will soon be published on the EULITA website.
“Interpretation services are vital for ensuring fair access to justice. Yet when the Ministry of Justice set out to establish a new centralised system for supplying interpreters to the justice system, almost everything that could go wrong did go wrong.
The Ministry awarded the contract to a company, ALS, that was clearly incapable of delivering. The Ministry had been warned that ALS was too small to shoulder a contract worth more than £1 million, but went ahead and handed them an annual £42 million contract covering the whole country.