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36 Conn. B.J. 1 (1962)

handle is hein.barjournals/conebaj0036 and id is 1 raw text is: EDITORIAL EDITORIAL WHERE WILL THE JUDGES SIT? Dissatisfaction with court congestion is sought to be allayed by the appointment of an enlarged judiciary to function at the trial level. One recognizes - without going into detail - that this in itself will not cure the disappointments of the law's delays, and it is not intended here and now to explore the many other factors which quantitatively and qualitatively operate to separate the litigant from his day in court. Our devotion to the problem will here be limited not to the number of judges, but equally pressing, where to seat them, once appointed. Courthouse facilities are frequently the sole basis of the lay- man's concept of Justice, be he litigant, juror, witness or spectator. However learned, impartial - and all the other adjectives com- prising in the aggregate the ideal lawgiver - the judge may be, if his bench is the adornment (usually, it isn't) of a superannu- ated dingy courtroom, the assemblage is likely to believe that the justice dispensed therefrom will likewise be shoddy, rudimentary and lacking in integrity. Worse than a squalid Victorian courthouse, however, is no courthouse at all. What the recent increase in the number of Federal judges has meant, as respects appropriate courtroom accommodations for them throughout the country, is unknown to this writer. One knows, however, that the doubling of the judicial roster in Connecticut has appreciably affected the viscous flow of case-processing through to trial and judgment. This is in some degree attributable also to a judicious use of existing courtroom facilities as well as the employment of such resourceful devices as holding court as an emergency measure this past autumn in the classrooms of the Law School of Yale University. This was to relieve the pressure in New Haven. Practicing lawyers in Connecticut are cognizant of the ex- istence of two seats of the United States District Court here, one in Hartford and the other in New Haven. How many know, however, that there is already enabling legislation, already passed by the Congress, authorizing regular District Court sessions in Bridgeport and in Waterbury? But there is a gimmick. The 19621

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