The head of the Justice Ministry, Moliei Simi Vaai, has dismissed a Supreme Court Judge’s urgent plea for more court translators, a shortage of which he said was putting justice at risk. 

Claims of an urgent shortage of translators were first made by the Supreme Court Justice Leiataualesa Darryl Clarke, who said the Ministry of Justice and Court Association (M.J.C.A.) was unable to retain experienced Court Registrars able to translate court matters.