AS THE JUDICIAL outcry for an increase in assigned counsel rates grows louder, the state’s chief judge yesterday called on the Legislature to respond immediately to an “intolerable” system that denies effective counsel to the indigent.
Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye also announced the appointment of Dianne B. Dixon, the deputy bureau chief of the Attorney General’s consumer fraud bureau, as the executive director of the Access to Justice Center. The newly created center, which will investigate and coordinate methods for improving legal representation provided to the poor, had been scheduled to open last fall, but was delayed by the Sept. 11 attacks.
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