New Hampshire Revised Statutes 494:3 – Duties of the Council
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It shall be the duty of the judicial council:
I. To serve as an institutional forum for the on-going and disinterested consideration of issues affecting the administration of justice.
II. To survey and study continuously the administration of justice within the state and the organization, procedure, practice, rules and methods of administration and operation of the courts of the state.
III. To devise ways of simplifying judicial procedure, expediting the transaction of judicial business, and of improving the administration of justice.
IV. To recommend and provide general information to the general court, to the supreme court, to the superior court, to the circuit court, to any public official, department or agency or to the state bar association, either upon request or upon the council’s own motion, such changes in the law or in the rules, organization, operation or methods of conducting the business of the courts, or with respect to any other matter pertaining to the administration of justice, as it may deem desirable.
V. To serve as a catalyst for the discussion of legal and judicial issues through seminars, forums and special studies, and any other means, within the limits of available state and private funding.
VI. To administer the indigent defense delivery system and ensure its quality and cost effectiveness, pursuant to N.H. Rev. Stat. Chapter 604-A and RSA 604-B.
VII. To provide legal and guardian-ad-litem services in child protection cases, pursuant to N.H. Rev. Stat. § 169-C:10, RSA 604-A, and N.H. Rev. Stat. § 170-C:13.
VIII. To provide legal services for indigent proposed wards in guardianship proceedings brought under N.H. Rev. Stat. Chapter 463 and RSA 464-A.
I. To serve as an institutional forum for the on-going and disinterested consideration of issues affecting the administration of justice.
Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 494:3
- Devise: To gift property by will.
- justice: when applied to a magistrate, shall mean a justice of a municipal court, or a justice of the peace having jurisdiction over the subject-matter. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:12
- state: when applied to different parts of the United States, may extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories, so called; and the words "United States" shall include said district and territories. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:4
II. To survey and study continuously the administration of justice within the state and the organization, procedure, practice, rules and methods of administration and operation of the courts of the state.
III. To devise ways of simplifying judicial procedure, expediting the transaction of judicial business, and of improving the administration of justice.
IV. To recommend and provide general information to the general court, to the supreme court, to the superior court, to the circuit court, to any public official, department or agency or to the state bar association, either upon request or upon the council’s own motion, such changes in the law or in the rules, organization, operation or methods of conducting the business of the courts, or with respect to any other matter pertaining to the administration of justice, as it may deem desirable.
V. To serve as a catalyst for the discussion of legal and judicial issues through seminars, forums and special studies, and any other means, within the limits of available state and private funding.
VI. To administer the indigent defense delivery system and ensure its quality and cost effectiveness, pursuant to N.H. Rev. Stat. Chapter 604-A and RSA 604-B.
VII. To provide legal and guardian-ad-litem services in child protection cases, pursuant to N.H. Rev. Stat. § 169-C:10, RSA 604-A, and N.H. Rev. Stat. § 170-C:13.
VIII. To provide legal services for indigent proposed wards in guardianship proceedings brought under N.H. Rev. Stat. Chapter 463 and RSA 464-A.