Legal Question in Administrative Law in California

Re: Calling witnesses at trail

Subpoena: You need to subpoena the witness to trial. There are problems having someone who not want to go; do what you can to encourge the witness to want to testify. You can pay them to attend as opposed to bribing them to appear.

Note: there are good reasons to subpoena all witnesses to appear even if they agreed to attend.

Re: Calling witnesses at trail

You should subpoena all non-party witnesses whose testimony you want, whether or not they have agreed to appear voluntarily. Since you are in pro. per., you will need the court clerk's assistance to issue the subpoenas, but you still have to prepare them, and serve them, along with the witness fee required by law. If you want them to bring evidence with them, use the "duces tecum" form of subpoena. There is no minimum pre-trial time to serve them, but you'd better get on it right away to be sure the papers are ready, approved and served before trial. A consistent problem in subpoenaing witnesses, especially unfriendly ones, is having them present at the right date and time. Obviously, you can't have a witness testify in the middle of jury selection. This is just one of the reasons retaining an experienced litigator is a better path than self-representation.

Re: Calling witnesses at trail

Subpoena them.