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be more important, but certainly it is a hearts amendment.
t
The Institute of Judicial Administration, which j
studied the Maryland Judicial system and prepared a
lengthy and well-documented report, says that the essen-
tials of a sound judicial system are as follows, and num-
ber one is a simple, unified court structure. Then they
say good judges, businesslike administration, efficient
rules and sound financing. That is what we think we pro-
vided in this article, but Section 5.01 sets up the
simple, unified court structure.
Now, Maryland does not now have the simple
unified court structure, and the aim of 5.01 is to give us
one.
In this state we have about 16 different kinds
of courts. They range from our Court of Appeals to the
Circuit Courts, and six of them in Baltimore City; then
we have the multiplicity of Orphans' Courts, Trial Magis-
trates, Municipal Courts, People's Courts, Justices of
the Peace, Committee Magistrates and Housing Courts.
The aim of this Section 5.01 is to put all of
this structure in a simple unified system. The minority