2023 Code of Virginia
Title 8.01 - Civil Remedies and Procedure
Chapter 14 - Evidence
§ 8.01-400.1. Privileged communications by interpreters for the deaf (Supreme Court Rule 2:507 derived in part from this section)

Universal Citation:
VA Code § 8.01-400.1 (2023)
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Whenever a deaf person communicates through an interpreter to any person under such circumstances that the communication would be privileged, and such person could not be compelled to testify as to the communications, this privilege shall also apply to the interpreter.

1978, c. 601.

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