STATE IN INTEREST OF D.H.


153 N.J. Super. 490 (1977)

380 A.2d 295

STATE OF NEW JERSEY IN THE INTEREST OF D.H., JUVENILE.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division.

Decided November 9, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Stanley C. Van Ness, Public Defender and Public Advocate, attorney for the juvenile-appellant (Mr. Steven Zamrin, Assistant Deputy Public Defender, Child Advocacy Unit, of counsel and on the brief).

Mr. William F. Hyland, Attorney General of New Jersey, attorney for respondent State of New Jersey (Mr. Wayne J. Martorelli, Deputy Attorney General, of counsel and on the brief).

Messrs. Davis, Roth & Beck, attorneys for the respondent United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. (Mr. Nathan Beck on the brief).

Before Judges CONFORD, MICHELS and PRESSLER.


The opinion of the court was delivered by PRESSLER, J.A.D.

The question raised by this appeal is the extent to which, if at all, the principle of confidentiality of juvenile records, vouchsafed both by statute and court rule, should yield in favor of a prospective civil litigant who, but for intrusion upon that confidentiality, would be unable to discover the identity of juveniles by whose conduct he has allegedly...

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