Vermont Joint Commission
The work of the Court Process Committee went beyond the discrete questions of
the initial charge into the specific processes
that the Court could implement to improve
its delivery of legal services.
The Court Process Committee recognizes
that much of court process and procedure is
the result of careful deliberation within the
judiciary. Therefore, the committee planted
its recommendations in two camps.
First, the committee looked to specific
dockets and subject areas where change
could improve court process. In this respect,
the committee concluded that changes to
the consumer creditor docket, including removing it from small claims court, consolidating it in superior court, and changing the
process could have a number of significant
improvements on the lives of debtors, creditors, the court system, and the small claims
court docket. The committee envisions
bringing such cases into a single docket
where the superior court judge would have
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