Saturday 27 February 2016

"case adjourned to arrange for an interpreter"

http://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/s-court-Latest-cases-North-Staffordshire-Saturday/story-28819581-detail/story.html 
27 February 2016

LONGTON: FORTY-YEAR-OLD Maris Dombovskis, of Kildare Street, Longton, faces charges of failing to provide a specimen of breath for analysis, driving without insurance and without a licence in Chaplin Road, Longton, on January 19.
District Judge Jack McGarva adjourned the case at North Staffordshire Justice Centre until February 29 to arrange for an interpreter.

Tuesday 23 February 2016

"case adjourned to arrange for an interpreter"

http://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/s-court-Latest-cases-North-Staffordshire/story-28789090-detail/story.html 
23 February 2016

SMALLTHORNE: 25-year-old Sebastian Szporak, of Regina Street, Smallthorne, is charged with assaulting Iwona Lapinska by beating at Smallthorne on December 22.
Magistrates at North Staffordshire Justice Centre adjourned the case until February 26 to arrange for an interpreter.

Monday 15 February 2016

Scotland: OAP remanded in custody to resolve translation complaint

http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/angus-the-mearns/oap-remanded-in-custody-to-resolve-translation-complaint-1.924302 
15 February 2016

OAP remanded in custody to resolve translation complaint
A pensioner who indecently assaulted a woman at an Angus bus station is awaiting his fate in jail.
Loi Li lost a six-month battle to retract a lost-in-translation guilty plea over repeatedly stroking a woman’s bottom in Arbroath’s Catherine Street station on September 14 2014.
But he did not comply with social inquiry reports because he “took umbrage” with a Chinese interpreter he had been assigned.
The 66-year-old appeared at Forfar Sheriff Court and was remanded by Sheriff Gregor Murray, who told him he was the “author of his own misfortune”.
Mr Loi had admitted the assault in March last year but it emerged the 66-year-old’s interpreter in the dock spoke a different Chinese language.
A legal application to withdraw his plea has been rejected by another sheriff.
Solicitor Ian Flynn said a new interview date had been set for reports with a different interpreter.
He said the original interview was with “a local interpreter that Mr Loi knew and took umbrage to”.
Sheriff Murray said: “Every part of this case has been delayed following your original plea of guilty. The latest delay I do not find to be acceptable in any way.
“Considerable money has been wasted to date in this case, and I want to be certain that there is an interpreter and you are there at the same time and place.
“For those reasons I will remand you in custody until that date.”
The court previously heard Loi, of High Street, Arbroath, spoke the Sino-Tibetan language Hakka and had been given an interpreter who spoke the more mainstream Cantonese dialect.
However, a sheriff on that occasion was told the opinion of another interpreter that the Cantonese for “guilty” and “not guilty” were sufficiently different that Loi could not have misunderstood his plea.
Solicitor Sarah Russo said the man had been in the UK for 45 years, worked in restaurant kitchens across Tayside in that time and has little English.
While he was “uneasy” that Loi understood everything that was said before his plea, the sheriff was sufficiently satisfied he was aware what he was doing.

Sunday 14 February 2016

"case adjourned for an interpreter to be arranged"

http://www.westerngazette.co.uk/men-accused-having-machete-possession-Yeovil-town/story-28733312-detail/story.html 
14 February 2016

Two Polish men accused of being in Yeovil town centre in possession of a machete with a large blade have had their case adjourned for an interpreter to be present.
[…]
Neither defendant entered any pleas and after the magistrates were told there was a language issue with both parties they adjourned the case until Tuesday (February 16) for an interpreter to be arranged to assist them.
Until their next court appearance Majewski and Wardaszko were released on unconditional bail.

"speaking through his daughter as an interpreter"

http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/14275852.Former_military_man_found_guilty_of_fly_tipping/?ref=rss 
14 February 2016

[…] The court heard from take-away owner Salam Abdus who – speaking through his daughter as an interpreter - told the magistrates he had only seen waste being taken away by three men in a white van, none of which were Bull. […]