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The Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday released its official guidance for when trial judges should allow litigants, victims, witnesses and attorneys to attend proceedings virtually, but some members of the legal community are warning that judges continue to have too much discretion to allowing or disallow remote participation.
Virtual court proceedings enable lawyers to more easily represent clients at a lower cost, are less disruptive to the lives of litigants and are more technically demanding on judges and their courtrooms.Those were the broad messages contained in more than 200 pages of comments submitted to the Colorado Supreme Court on a pair of proposed directives governing remote access to judicial proceedings.