Cal. Rules of Court, rule 10.58 · Chapter 2. Judicial Council Advisory Committees and Task Forces
Advisory Committee on Civil Jury Instructions
Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
(a) Area of focus
The committee regularly reviews case law and statutes affecting jury instructions and makes recommendations to the Judicial Council for updating, amending, and adding topics to the council's civil jury instructions.
(b) Membership
The committee must include at least one member from each of the following categories, and a majority of the members must be judges:
(1) Appellate court justice;
(2) Trial court judge;
(3) Lawyer whose primary area of practice is civil law; and
(4) Law professor whose primary area of expertise is civil law.
Notes and commentary — not rule text
History
(Subd (a) amended effective January 1, 2007.)
Rule 10.58 amended and renumbered effective January 1, 2007; adopted as rule 6.58 effective September 1, 2003.
Source of truth
- Edition
- As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
- Official file
- https://courts.ca.gov/cms/rules/index/ten/rule10_58
- Text hash
- sha256 a3b3fe8e1edfc6455695b089f79cb585d5a39dccf04a80aa8c3522fd7a8212e4
- Composed by
- compose_crc.py 2026-10-22: the Judicial Council's rule pages read paragraph by paragraph; verify_crc.py's second reading of the Council's per-title PDFs finds every paragraph
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