Scope and Contents This printed report was submitted in response to an executive order of June 4, 1971, establishing the Governor's Commission on Judicial Processes. In the order, Governor Jimmy Carter articulated the duties of the commission, namely to "make recommendations for the improvement of our judicial system for consideration by the people of Georgia and at the 1972 Session of the General Assembly of Georgia." The report contains a list of commission members and a table of contents which indicates in...

Scope and Contents By direction of the Governor's Commission on Judicial Processes, law students surveyed ten of the State's 42 judicial circuits. It was felt that these ten circuits, including 32 counties both rural and urban, distributed around the State and containing almost 50% of the State's population, would provide a good cross section sample for analyzing the activities of the courts and identifying many of the problems common to all Georgia courts. This series is composed of the Data Collection...

Scope and Contents This series is the printed final report of the Governor's Commission on Judicial Processes. The Commission contracted Ernst and Ernst, an Atlanta consulting firm, to survey the volume and type of legal cases flowing through the state court system, to review the existing records and procedures and to canvass key personnel involved in the day‑to‑day operation of the courts. The results of this survey provide the basis for recommendations for improvements in procedure and in the...