ABSTRACT
Courtrooms are organised by ritualised processes. These processes often do not consider the individual who has business before the court who is deaf or the interpreter who works to provide access in the courtroom. This chapter focusses on the incorporation of sign language interpreters into the courtroom and the challenges that this setting and these processes pose for them. These issues include deaf interpreters, video-mediated interpreting, social psychology issues in the courtroom, and the importance and role of research.
