Changes to Illinois Pattern Instructions Now Online

From an Illinois Supreme Court press release:

Lawyers, judges and librarians will now have ready access to recent changes in proposed jury instructions for civil cases. No longer will they have to wait until advance sheets or periodic volumes are formally published and distributed.

. . . Recent changes in the instructions which are drafted by the Supreme Court Committee on Jury Instructions in Civil Cases will be available on the Illinois Supreme Court web site under the section headed "Circuit Court of Illinois", "Jury Information", "Jury Instructions."

Here is the link to the Supreme Court's press release (pdf format). The Supreme Court has already posted changes to the Construction Negligence, Strict Liability, and other instructions, which you can view here.

Thanks to the ISBA Illinois Trial Practice Update, from which I originally learned this news.

Comments

[tom]

Help: Where are the construction negligence proposed pattern instructions? I can't find them on that supreme court site.

Thanks.

[Evan]

Tom: Only the recent changes are online, so you still have to get the bound volume. The changes I posted about in the original post are now in a bound supplement (I guess) since I do not see them at the site either.