MONOJURIS: Thoughts About The One Judge Model

MONOJURIS:

Thoughts About the One Judge Model

One Singular Sensation?

The one Judge model presents both opportunities and challenges. The opportunities presented revolve around the axes of greater efficiencies (including in scheduling), and creating a more interventionist case management environment, where consistent and proportionate oversight and follow up by the same Judge can facilitate a process and outcomes that should be more accountable, less complex, less expensive, more predictable, and in the final analysis, lead to speedier resolutions and greater access to justice. Conversely the challenges inherent in a true one Judge model revolve around the axes of education, temperament, rigidity, the development of common law and paradoxically, increased potential risk of delay.