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DB LEGATE B.. MILLER: Chairman Mudd, aa I under
stand it, under functional division of courts it would be
possible to set up a fa»ily court or juvenile court or some
such court, would it not?
DELEGATE MUDD: Yes.
DELEGATE B. MILLER: Would it be also possible
to have specialist Judges who would be assigned solely
to those courts on the basis of their knowledge in that
area?
DELEGATE MUDD: Within the rule-making power,
the Court of Appeals, under its rule making power has the
right to assign judges, and it is entirely possible that
judge who was particularly knoweidgeable in one field and
preferred that field but now handles many areas may becotfe
permanently or for an unlimited time a juvenile judge or
traffic court judge. That already happens in sow juris-
dictions at the present time.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Miller.
DELEGATE B. MILLER: Would there be any
recourse if such event were not to happen, if a judge were
assigned to a family court, for instance, who did not luie