Court interpreters in demand</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="Court interpreters in demand"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Court,interpreters,in,demand"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">06-06-2005</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>Court interpreters in demand</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Persekutuan, Malaysia (New Straits Times): The shortage of Tamil interpreters has been resolved but that of Chinese-dialects interpreter has been dogging court administrators since 1995. The shortage is so bad that to avoid a backlog of civil cases, some lawyers are bringing private interpreters to help the courts. They are paid RM250 a day for cases in the Sessions Courts and RM350 in High Courts. <br> The fear that an innocent person may be punished because of the lack of an interpreter has grown following the case of Nepali Mangal Bahadur Gurung. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Monday/National/20050606075426/Article/indexb_html " target="blank">www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Monday/National/20050606075426/Article/indexb_html </a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show