Interpreters in Bolton

Courts and tribunals across the UK see our interpreters regularly, the Royal Courts of Justice in London and the District Registry of the High Court in Manchester among them, and in Bolton, the Crown Court and the magistrates’ court. We work with NRPSI-registered interpreters, and LITS is an ATC Accredited Member – background checked by the Association of Translation Companies and bound by its Code of Professional Conduct.

Our interpreters hold enhanced DBS certification, and where an assignment requires it, Home Office Counter Terrorist Check or police vetting to NPPV3.

Bolton Crown Court and Bolton Magistrates’ Court share the Law Courts on Blackhorse Street: one address, two courts, with different facilities. The Crown Court has video links to prison by arrangement and interview rooms on its first and third floors; the magistrates’ court has no prison link, and its interview rooms can’t be booked ahead. Benefit appeals are heard nearby at Bayley House on St Georges Square, though the tribunal’s postal address is in Liverpool. There’s no county or family court in Bolton at all. A family or civil case goes to the venue on the notice, with Wigan County Court and Family Court and the Manchester Civil Justice Centre the nearest listed, and the listed venues for immigration appeals are in Manchester.

An interpreter who only knows “Bolton court” can end up at the Law Courts for a hearing in Wigan, or counting on an interview room the magistrates’ court doesn’t take bookings for. So each booking carries the venue from your notice, which court it is and whether the interpreter should attend in person or by video, and the interpreter has all of it before the day. Put the venue on the booking once, and you’re not the one relaying it on the morning.

The Royal Bolton Hospital is on Minerva Road in Farnworth, and not everything on the site belongs to the hospital’s own trust. Greater Manchester Mental Health runs the Rivington Unit and several wards alongside it, including Beech, Oak and Maple House, each with its own contacts. A booking for “the Royal Bolton” that is really a Rivington Unit assessment sends an interpreter to the wrong reception, and the start of a mental health assessment isn’t a moment anyone wants to lose. Bolton’s community health teams also see patients at more than 20 health centres around the borough, so an appointment with the trust isn’t always at the hospital.

So the unit, the service and the full address are copied from the appointment letter into your booking, and they reach the interpreter in advance. You don’t have to work out which trust runs which ward; the letter already says, and your booking carries it to the interpreter.