About this report
A review of the first five years of progress on access to justice since the Commission was founded. When the Commission started, access to justice for the poor was near the bottom of California's policy agenda: the state had no government funding for civil legal services, and some courts even posted signs discouraging litigants from asking for help.
The report describes how that changed and documents the needs that remained, including the finding that 72 percent of the legal needs of low-income families went unmet.
Commission History · PDF, 90 pages