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We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to ensure that accredited and professional interpreters are used in legal proceedings, from time of arrest throughout the judicial system, and that 'language agencies' who provide unqualified so-called interpreters should be strictly monitiored and disqualified from providing interpreting services. More details
Submitted by DAGMAR COOK – Deadline to sign up by: 07 March 2008 – Signatures: 404
Petition update, 11 June 2008
You signed a petition asking the Prime Minister to "ensure that accredited and professional interpreters are used in legal proceedings, from time of arrest throughout the judicial system, and that 'language agencies' who provide unqualified so-called interpreters should be strictly monitiored and disqualified from providing interpreting services."The Prime Minister's Office has responded to that petition and you can view it here:
http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page15728.asp
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Unqualified interpreters are being employed at police stations and at Court, to provide a service that must be accurate and professionally undertaken.
Only interpreters from the 'Nation Register of Public Service Interpreters' should be used for judicial purposes (including the initial stages of an investigation). Members have proved themselves to be proficient, having passed stringent exams, and are monitored regularly.
Most agencies employ unqualified interpreters, many of whom cannot speak English; they are generally unqualified and do not meet the standard required, thus, foreign offenders 'get off', due to poor interpretation services from the outset.
The police, CPS, and Courts MUST use accredited interpreters.
With so many foreign migrant workers in the UK, the NRPSI network of accredited interpreters MUST be used, in order that foreign offenders can be treated in the same way as indigenous Britons.
Current signatories
DAGMAR COOK, the Petition Creator, joined by:
- John Symons
- Gordon Burns
- Robert Duncan
- vicky cheung
- Jeff Brattan-Wilson
- Melanie Jones
- Wayne Griffiths
- margo c m currie
- Hazel Rutherford
- Olivia Retter
- Linda Day
- Eva Fielding-Jackson
- David & Jennifer Johnston
- BERNADETTE FOSTER
- Lorraine Fletcher
- Helen Burdett
- Campbell McKee
- marie taylor
- Mira Goldberg
- Emma Mackay
- Darren Tobin
- Isobel Higgins
- Jill Hawes
- Omeima Mudawi
- Amanda Gorringe
- Ann McAllister
- Lynnne Cull
- Christine Martin
- Nadene Scott
- James Brown
- Sharron Pridham
- Marjorie Adamson
- Amanda Taylor-Service
- Jessica Lewis
- Grace Bannan
- Paul Saunders
- Sally Saunders
- Holly Saunders
- jon jeffreys
- Dawn Marshall
- heather Johnson
- Tony Beckett
- teresa crawford
- Lydia Boydell
- John Derby
- Paul Belmonte
- sarah campbell
- Sarah Green
- Anna-Marie Reilly
- Sarah Lawrence
- Alison Leach
- Angela Burgess
- Michelle Fowler
- Rachell Bastikar
- CHARLES MURPHY
- Andy Franik
- Sue Barry
- Jane
- Daniel Webster
- Siobhan O'Donovan
- Derek Rowley
- Elizabeth White
- Helen Dawson
- Cathie Gillespie
- Alan Wright
- Natalie Pollard
- Emma Clayton
- Doreen Mair
- Mary Whittaker
- Jennifer Ramsay
- Rachel Doidge-Harrison
- Yvette Beer
- angela small
- Michael Sadler
- Michael Down
- Karen Gowing
- Colin Bovis
- Melanie Mcdonagh
- Peter Llewellyn-Jones
- JOANNE FORTUNE
- Alison Bryan
- Steven Wynne
- Judith M Collins
- J. Barnes-Jones
- Claire Haddon
- Alex Duguid
- Julia Sumption
- Peter Mapstone
- Denise Coombs
- Nikki Beech
- Cheryl Mechan
- FJ Turnbull
- Linda Thomson
- James Porter
- Keith Reed
- Malcolm Wright
- Ann Davis
- Caroline O'Neill
- Sean Richards
- Elizabeth Jenkins
- Rose Hawes
- Iain Sutherland
- Henry Skinner
- Robin Herdman
- Simon Herdman
- Elizabeth Young
- Alison Spear
- Veronica Heague
- Marilyn Bueno Del Carpio
- Sarah Reed
- Alban Welch
- Victoria Carrabin
- P. Donovan
- Michael Quinlan
- Deirdre Aitken
- Lesley Holt
- Dawn Barker
- Christine Rowlands
- Clara Luz Aguirre de Gallantine
- Kong Luk
- Augusta Pearson
- Anne Lee
- Paul Pearson
- Norman Conroy
- Catherine Richardson
- Penelope Maclachlan
- Manzoor Ahmed Khan
- Helga Bateman
- Lucila Makin
- Zuzana Windle
- Ulrike Dehmel
- Nina Sampson
- Hulya Gray
- Christopher Windle
- Andrew M Cornell
- Jochen Dehmel
- MIKE DOVI-DOTSE
- Irina Moore
- Mustafa Karim
- Pedro Ramos
- Iain D Reed
- Agnieszka Pearson
- Peter Elins
- Guillermo A. Makin, Ph D, MCIL, NRPSI
- Diana Pinto
- Antra Lusina
- victoria bursa
- Edlira Gay
- Nadia Hussein
- Yasar Saglik
- Diana Cue
- Rasa Cuckson
- Selma Saglik
- Dr Dan Anton Ciomartan
- ivana roberts
- Zarina Bhatia, BA (Hons), MLitt (Oxon)
- Allyson Ng
- Sam Wong
- Irina Hutchinson, JP
- alain balanche-jacquet
- Madeleine Lee (DPSI RPSI)
- Klasiena Slaney
- Lalia White
- Ruta Balandyte-Smart
- Ligia Xavier
- Jurate Clarke
- George Balbino
- Nabil A. Jajawi
- Abbas Jabarooti
- Omer Turan
- Evelyn Malcolm
- Julian Vulliamy
- Ian NcGarr
- Sam Saleh
- Helena El Masri
- Izabella Radziwillowicz
- Alan Thompson
- Elena Edwards
- Matthew Edwards
- inmaculada Capín-Martino
- Iluta Fitzsimmons
- Justin Hoffman
- Elisa Gillogley-Mari
- Zdena Caris
- John N Caris
- Monika Rozanski
- Ana Herreros
- Camelia Jones
- Mohammad Rahimi
- Ahmed Mohmoud
- ahmed mustafa
- Pavlos Xirogiannidis
- Janina Pursa
- Marina Zaretsky
- Masoud Shahabeddin
- saima arooj
- Ayesha Farooq
- Luiz Grasso
- James Burns
- Margaret Jones
- Rafiq Undawi
- Kirstie Harris
- Craig Harris
- Kirstie Burns (BA Hons)
- Radka Seminova
- Marie Bayle
- Eva Poplova
- Helena Navratilova (LLB, DPSI)
- Fillipo Protani
- Manuel di Quesa
- Thilde van Norel
- Jan van Rijnsoever
- Ravi Chakra MA, DPSI
- Graham Burns
- Gregory Franklin LLB (Hons, Cantab)
- Dubais Abdulla
- solange jimi
- Asma Awan
- Magda Packova
- Saw Lee Teh
- Tim Clifford
- Yvonne Fowler
- Mike Evans
- Ponniah Swami Nathan
- Yilmaz Duzen
- Mehmet Tezer
- Agaath de Vries
- Ian Spashett
- Debora Chobanian
- mr m ghorani
- Gareth Ballard
- Garth Lee
- Yun Fuk Lau
- Simon Dunderdale (MSc)
- G M Burns (BSc Hons, GCM, BVMA)
- Marlena Kazmiruk
- Piotr Rosinski RPSI
- Neziha Kaya
- Fatih Aksoy
- Adam Turk
- Nina Tupper
- Cezmi Yurdagul
- Miroslav Bily
- Kevin Lai
- Rebecca Goh
- Amelia Naranjo
- Khalid Qureshi
- Ladislav Endl
- Penelope Dunderdale
- Gwennaelle Martine Ann Cook
- Michael Sommers
- Victoria Sommers
- Christina Laukkanen
- N Mirza
- Diane Osborne
- K Nazar
- John Thompson BA (hons)
- Sandra Jones
- Helen Fuller
- Julie Smyth
- Alison Crook
- linda masterson
- Hilary Hodgson
- Penny Brinkley
- Anne-Marie Marray
- Rachel Clifford
- Nick Palfreyman
- Paul Gomes
- Rekha Narula
- Elizabeth McGuinness
- Ying Malcomson
- Slavka B Cogley
- Peter Riches
- Kawa M Barzangi
- Davinder Singh
- Muhammad Yousafzai
- Dr Ibrahim SHARIF
- Sarunas Jarmalavicius
- George Sanderson, BA Hons
- Mecki Allen DPSI MITI
- Azad Hamid
- Tad Mandziej
- Mansoor Ahmad
- Blanka Rambouskova
- jolanta kozak
- Chris Bosson
- Masuda Raoufi
- Maha Humphreys
- Magdalena Kozub
- Eva Dabrowska
- Dorota Crates (NRPSI)
- Pawel Bawolec (NRPSI, APCI, CIoL)
- Marzena Grzyb (NRPSI)
- Bogumila Kolbus
- ROZA PISANO (NRPSI)
- Viv
- Amira Kadhum
- Nicoletta Comand
- Vance Mcghee
- Ari Goran
- John Cross
- j.m.barker
- A. R. Karamyar RPSI, MCIL
- Andy Tallis
- Susanna Garcia MA RPSI
- Guna Shields
- Vanessa Rennie
- Arian Taugozi
- A Weissman
- Ming Ming Dong MA, NRPSI, MITI
- Lydia Mary Koelmans
- GEORGE SERBANESCU
- Elizabeth R. Zendle
- jana bhunjun
- John Podvoiskis
- Roland Serani
- Mariya Nash
- M Dhifallah
- Josephine Bacon
- Barbara Turek NRPSI
- Hannan Duzen
- Gulay Webb
- Ziya Dikbas
- H. Didar Arslan
- David John Webb
- Ayda Yazgim Jennifer Webb
- Nina Browning
- Yi-Chun Grantham
- Raphael Hosea Nsemwa
- Roderick oliver
- Martine Gabriel
- Angelika Gershon
- Elena Goodwin
- Iftikhar Ahmed
- Harbans Ajeet
- Vicky Hedge (NRPSI)
- Paul Richard Smith
- Felicity Cornish
- Helen Koelmans
- Albert Koelmans
- laura orsini
- Arthur Rothwell
- Sayed Alemzada
- Manya Wayne née Romano
- Rosemary Coveney
- Katherine Coveney
- Natasha Day
- John A Newton
- Mimi McQuaid
- Lilian J. Riches
- Martina Brown
- Emma Greenley
- Matthew Jackson
- Joan Lee
- Caroline Camus
- Robin Lee
- Helen Soo, Ph D, NRPSI, MITI, MCIL
- Siân Hibbert
- Erdogan Kabadayi
- LIEGE BESCHOREN
- Robert T Finney
- Liza barreto
- barbara layzell
- Adam Newby
- Ana Frechoso
- Stepohen John Lee
- SILVIA O'BRIEN
- delphine bergsma
- Zelia Edwards
- fiona horrocks
- Larissa Heard (DPSI, NRPSI)
- Cilmara Lion RPSI, BA, MITI
- Mike Watkinson
- Lelia Galis
- Rodica Popescu
- Vera de Oliveira
- Boris Isarov
- Ian Turton
- Alex Allan
- Ruth Barwani-Rai
- Nobuko Primarolo
- Karl Thackham
- Puck de Raadt
- Eliza Cameron-Dyne
- Tanya Shatilova
- Anka Troitsky
- Tatiana Nousinova
- Taj Ahmed Sher
- E Sanders
- Kim Roberta Burns
- Ludmila Bloor
- Judith Lanyi
- Dr Carole Adamson
- Jean Meyer
- Natalia Ilieva
- Jose Reis
- Z Sharyf
- Abdullah Rhodes-Taylor
- Nawzad Baker
- B Cuninghame
- Jen Dodds
- MM Moniz-Pereira
- steve hallett
