Portuguese Interpreter in London
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Chartered Linguist. Portuguese interpreter & translator in London, qualified & vetted NRPSI registered interpreter
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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
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Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇
November 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇
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1. The defendant not being produced at court from prison. 🚚
A classic. It happens due to the private contractors simply not bothering, knowing that the contracts negotiated by government include no meaningful penalty for failure.
Trials every day in every court are affected.
A classic. It happens due to the private contractors simply not bothering, knowing that the contracts negotiated by government include no meaningful penalty for failure.
Trials every day in every court are affected.
November 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
1. The defendant not being produced at court from prison. 🚚
A classic. It happens due to the private contractors simply not bothering, knowing that the contracts negotiated by government include no meaningful penalty for failure.
Trials every day in every court are affected.
A classic. It happens due to the private contractors simply not bothering, knowing that the contracts negotiated by government include no meaningful penalty for failure.
Trials every day in every court are affected.
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2. The court forgetting to book an interpreter for a defendant.
Another perennial. Every day in every court building.
See also: the court booking an interpreter, and the interpreter just not turning up.
Another perennial. Every day in every court building.
See also: the court booking an interpreter, and the interpreter just not turning up.
November 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
2. The court forgetting to book an interpreter for a defendant.
Another perennial. Every day in every court building.
See also: the court booking an interpreter, and the interpreter just not turning up.
Another perennial. Every day in every court building.
See also: the court booking an interpreter, and the interpreter just not turning up.
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Sarah Winnemucca’s trailblazing life as a Northern Paiute author, activist and interpreter helped expose injustice and advocate for Native rights, leaving a legacy that continues to inspire today.
LEST WE FORGET: Sarah Winnemucca - ICT
Northern Paiute author, activist and interpreter worked to improve conditions for Native people
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December 1, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Sarah Winnemucca’s trailblazing life as a Northern Paiute author, activist and interpreter helped expose injustice and advocate for Native rights, leaving a legacy that continues to inspire today.
Interpreters are frequently not booked by the court, or are booked but fail to attend. This should be a once-in-a-year error. Not daily. If the problem is with the contract, it needs to be renegotiated.
thesecretbarrister.com/2025/12/02/a...
thesecretbarrister.com/2025/12/02/a...
Abolishing trial by jury: why is the government overlooking the obvious?
Today, the government has confirmed that it intends to remove the right to trial by jury in the vast majority of cases in the Crown Courts. Serious criminal allegations, carrying up to three years …
thesecretbarrister.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Interpreters are frequently not booked by the court, or are booked but fail to attend. This should be a once-in-a-year error. Not daily. If the problem is with the contract, it needs to be renegotiated.
thesecretbarrister.com/2025/12/02/a...
thesecretbarrister.com/2025/12/02/a...
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An Observer investigation reveals threats faced by immigration judges. “It is never acceptable to put people's safety, families, or homes at risk,” said Barbara Mills KC, chair of the Bar. Read on -
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Immigration judges targeted by far right after Tory MP’s campaign | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 8:06 AM
An Observer investigation reveals threats faced by immigration judges. “It is never acceptable to put people's safety, families, or homes at risk,” said Barbara Mills KC, chair of the Bar. Read on -
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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More than 100 MPs urge Streeting to approve prostate cancer screening
More than 100 MPs urge Streeting to approve prostate cancer screening
Rishi Sunak hands health secretary open letter calling for testing for men at the highest risk
More than 100 MPs, including Rishi Sunak, have urged Wes Streeting to introduce screening for prostate cancer.
The UK National Screening Committee, a government agency that advises ministers and the NHS about all aspects of screening, will recommend whether men at higher risk of the disease should be offered checks. It is due to write to the health secretary later this week, the Telegraph reported. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:03 AM
More than 100 MPs urge Streeting to approve prostate cancer screening
The Costs of Instant Translation
AI might soon rob us of the thrill and challenge of cross-cultural conversation
www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...
AI might soon rob us of the thrill and challenge of cross-cultural conversation
www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...
The Costs of Instant Translation
AI might soon rob us of the thrill and challenge of cross-cultural conversation.
www.theatlantic.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:25 AM
The Costs of Instant Translation
AI might soon rob us of the thrill and challenge of cross-cultural conversation
www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...
AI might soon rob us of the thrill and challenge of cross-cultural conversation
www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...
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based | adjective | unconcerned with what others think
The slang use of ‘based’ is widely credited to Berkeley, California rapper Lil B, whose 2007 album with hip-hop group The Pack was titled “Based Boys,” and who counts “The BasedGod” among his aliases.
The slang use of ‘based’ is widely credited to Berkeley, California rapper Lil B, whose 2007 album with hip-hop group The Pack was titled “Based Boys,” and who counts “The BasedGod” among his aliases.
November 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
based | adjective | unconcerned with what others think
The slang use of ‘based’ is widely credited to Berkeley, California rapper Lil B, whose 2007 album with hip-hop group The Pack was titled “Based Boys,” and who counts “The BasedGod” among his aliases.
The slang use of ‘based’ is widely credited to Berkeley, California rapper Lil B, whose 2007 album with hip-hop group The Pack was titled “Based Boys,” and who counts “The BasedGod” among his aliases.
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I just staumbled across ELDP, Endangered Languages Documentation Programme, "creating a repository of resources for linguistics, the social science, and language communities."
Lots to read here!
www.eldp.net
#endangered #languages #project #langsky
Lots to read here!
www.eldp.net
#endangered #languages #project #langsky
November 7, 2025 at 7:30 AM
I just staumbled across ELDP, Endangered Languages Documentation Programme, "creating a repository of resources for linguistics, the social science, and language communities."
Lots to read here!
www.eldp.net
#endangered #languages #project #langsky
Lots to read here!
www.eldp.net
#endangered #languages #project #langsky
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