[2013] EWCA Crim 326

A company which had a contract to provide interpreters for court hearings was not guilty of serious misconduct when due to an internal error it failed to provide an interpreter for a sentencing hearing, and therefore it should not have been ordered to pay costs under the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 s.19B. A case of serious misconduct might arise if there was evidence that non-attendance occurred where there had been a failure to remedy a defect in administrative systems that had caused non-attendance in the past or where a particular interpreter had failed several times to attend.

CA (Crim Div) (Sir John Thomas (President QBD) , Swift J, Cranston J)

25/03/2013