Law Practice,
Government,
Civil Rights
Feb. 26, 2020
Legislators, experts see long road toward improving court experience for unrepresented litigants
Helping litigants has become a matter of self-interest for overburdened courts, said Presiding Judge Kevin C. Brazile of the Los Angeles County Superior Court and co-chair of the Judicial Council's California Advisory Committee on Providing Access and Fairness.
Legislators and experts gathered in Sacramento on Tuesday to discuss ways to improve the experience of unrepresented litigants in California's courts and concluded they have a long way to go, though programs to address the issue exist in most of the state's courts.
"The notion that justice is and should be for everyone is something that I think all of us here, and the reason we're here, hold near and dear to our hearts," said Assem...
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