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Show Public meeting called to discuss proposed Unified Court System ful that rmldenU of tills area will take the time to Attend and foivmmo 4x;tUr informed, Proposals for moving towards (his kind of syiUan will Ibo before the 1973 Legislature, The presentation Is made with the aid of ulldes prepared by faw Ktudemts at BYU. It taken approximately 45 minutes min-utes and tlmio for questions from .the audience will be given. The local sponsoring groups are the OEflce of Community Development at SUSC, the League of Women Voters, and the Utah Bar Association Study Committee. If a unified court system '.v.?re adc&ited in Utah, there would be a number of baalc changes in the way court business bus-iness is conducted. To explain tiheso basic changes, E. Keith Stofct, Jr., Research Consultant for the Utah Legislative Council, Coun-cil, will be present at a pub-lie pub-lie meeting on Thursday, Jan. 18 at 8 PJvl. at the Auditorium Lounge at SUSC. The unified court system ds an attempt to free the courts from a mass of separately constituted courts and auth orities, organization, procedures, proced-ures, tourees of finances, and to prevent overlapping and duplication of Jurisdiction of the separate courts. Under this system the chief Judge of the Supreme Court (s the administrative head of the unified Judicial system. However, he cannot carry a full judicial loud and also be responsibly for the administration adminis-tration of a huge organization of Judge, clerks, bailiffs, stenographers, probation officers, of-ficers, law libraries, buildings, permanent files and such. Therefore, the unified court plan provide that the Chief JtiMtlee appoint a court admin-Istrator admin-Istrator to Insure efficient and proper adunl n Iteration of Justice. Jus-tice. The new role of the chief Judge and the creatilon of a court administrator are but two aspects of the unified court system. To learn more about the unified system and the reasons ibehind Its being proposed for Utah, the local sponsoring committee is hope- |