§ 2029.700.Uniformity of application and construction

This section ties a specific bundle of sections together under a shared label. Sections 2029.100, 2029.200, 2029.300, 2029.400, 2029.500, 2029.600, 2029.800, 2029.900, and this section itself collectively constitute what may be referred to as the California version of the Uniform Interstate Depositions and Discovery Act, the core group of provisions drawn most directly from the national model law.

Beyond naming that bundle, the section gives courts an interpretive instruction. When applying and construing this uniform act, a court has to give consideration to the need to promote uniformity of the law on this subject among the various states that have enacted their own versions of it. That instruction matters because the whole point of adopting a uniform act is predictability across jurisdictions; a California court reading these sections idiosyncratically would undercut the reason for adopting a uniform framework in the first place.