I have just watched Channel 4 News, that has picked up the continuing interpreter story that seems to be going from bad to worse.
The report was a fair one, and included a fascinating clip from Dragons' Den in which the founder of ALS (the new agency that is supposed to have a monopoly on court work)failed to convince the panel of potential investors that he was worth backing.
The Chairman of the Peterborough Bench, Peter Beeke, gave a good and reasoned account of the problems, and came across as the sort of commonsense chap that a Bench Chairman is supposed to be. So ten out of ten to him, but only seven out of ten to C4 News because the idiots used clips of a gavel being banged to illustrate a court.
Note to each and every editor:-
NO -REPEAT NO - COURT IN ENGLAND AND WALES USES A GAVEL - EVER!
THAT'S RIGHT - EVER!
If that's too difficult, try 'COURTS DON'T USE GAVELS' and make every journo in your outfit repeat it a hundred times.
Harrumph!
Hear! Hear!
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