The Ministry of Justice has spent nearly £70,000 on translators at Crawley Magistrates' Court over the last five financial years.They were used on a total of 716 occasions, at a combined cost of £68,923 and between them helped to translate court proceedings for defendants and witnesses into 39 different foreign languages. More than a quarter of those jobs (183) involved interpreting English into Polish and back again. The number of times proceddings have had to be translated into...
