In the ABA Journal eReport there is an article about the recent American case of United States of America and City of Bismarck, North Dakota (which settled out of court).

It transpires that the position in the USA in relation to lawyers’ duty to provide an interpreter for their clients is similar to that in the UK.

I quote from the article:

A trend common in the UK is the charges of BSL/English interpreters being pased on by law firms with a Legal Help franchise to the certificate of public funding. However, the Legal Services Commission?s current position is that they will not pay the cost of BSL/English Interpreters.
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