IN RE AMEND. TO CODE — SENIOR JUDGES

No. SC16-63.

194 So.3d 1015 (2016)

In re AMENDMENTS TO the CODE OF JUDICIAL CONDUCT — SENIOR JUDGES SERVING AS VOLUNTARY TRIAL RESOLUTION JUDGES AND ARBITRATORS.

Supreme Court of Florida.

July 7, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Judge Barbara Lagoa , Chair, Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee, Third District Court of Appeal, Miami, FL; Judge Rodney Smith , Chair, Committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution Rules and Policy, Eleventh Judicial Circuit, Dade County Courthouse, Miami, FL; David Robert Hoyle , Chair, Alternative Dispute Resolution Section, D. Robert Hoyle, P.A., Bradenton, FL; and Susan Carolyn Marvin and James Calvin Goodlett , Office of the State Courts Administrator, Tallahassee, FL, Responding with Comments.


The Court, on its own motion, amends the Code of Judicial Conduct (Code) to prohibit a senior judge from serving as a voluntary trial resolution judge in any case in a circuit in which the senior judge is presiding as a judge.1 As recommended by the Executive Council of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Section...

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