Supreme Court of Florida

In Re: Amendments to the Code of Judicial Conduct - Senior Judges Serving as Voluntary Trial Resolution Judges and…

July 7, 2016194 So. 3d 1015

Summary

The Florida Supreme Court, acting on its own motion, amended the Code of Judicial Conduct to prohibit senior judges from serving as voluntary trial resolution judges or arbitrators in any case within the circuit where they are presiding, extending the same‑circuit dual‑service prohibition previously applied to mediators.