Summary: This episode of Sidebar, a podcast from the New Jersey State Bar Association, features a conversation with Victoria Pratt, former chief judge of the Newark Municipal Court. Pratt attracted international attention after her work in in New Jersey’s first community courtroom – Newark Community Solutions – was the subject of an article in The Guardian. She later recorded a TED Talk entitled “How Judges Can Show Respect,” which has been viewed on the TED site over 1 million times. In this interview, Pratt talks about practicing procedural justice, an approach that aims to increase public trust in the system.
