Remote interpreting for instructing solicitors

Why remote is the default

Remote interpreting removes the single largest cost and the single largest risk in a booking. There is no travel fee, no train delay, and no interpreter arriving at the wrong building. For conferences, asylum interviews, case management hearings and most tribunal work, it is simply the better mode.

I work daily on Microsoft Teams, Zoom, HMCTS Cloud Video Platform (CVP), Prison Video Link and ordinary telephone. Where your firm uses a secure client portal, I will work within it.

What you get as standard

• One named, accountable interpreter for the duration of your matter, so the client is not facing a different voice at each hearing.
• Papers read in advance. Send the bundle, the indictment or the statement and I will build dialect-specific vocabulary before the link opens.
• Itemised invoices and attendance notes provided as standard, to support legal aid claims.
• A same working-day response to booking requests, usually by email or telephone.

Booking

£50 per hour, one-hour minimum, all dialects excluding North African (Algerian, Libyan, Moroccan and Tunisian) and all settings. In-person attendance is not offered; where it is essential, I will refer you to an NRPSI-registered colleague. Firms with regular instructions can agree £45 per hour for blocks of 10 hours or more. Legally aided matters are charged at the LAA-prescribed rate. Cancellation requires 48 hours' notice.

A free 30-minute pre-instruction consultation is available to confirm the client's dialect and plan logistics before you instruct.

Dialect coverage

• Yemeni Arabic — specialist
• Gulf Arabic
• Sudanese Arabic — rare
• All seven varieties in active practice