Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman has named 28 people to a task force charged with spearheading a court-led effort to secure adequate state funding for the representation of low-income New Yorkers in civil cases.
Judge Lippman in a statement yesterday charged the task force to come up with permanent funding mechanisms to support “affordable representation” for the state’s low income citizens. An adequate level of state funding, he said, is indispensable to enable the courts to carry out their “constitutional mission” to ensure “justice for all.”
