Thirty-eight years after the comprehensive reformation, reorganization and modernization of the New Jersey judicial system, the Municipal Court Judicial Conference took a long look at the municipal court system based upon the report of the Supreme Court’s Task Force on the Improvement of Municipal Courts. Keynoting the conference, Chief Justice Robert Wilentz commented on the project’s importance, stating that, “despite the importance of these courts, their performance has fallen short of our standards of fair and efficient justice.”

The Supreme Court however, limited the focus of the Task Force’s consideration. According to Chief Justice Wilentz, the Task Force was, “not to consider regionalization or changes in the method of appointing judges, but rather to determine steps within the present framework that could be taken to overcome the difficulties which long had plagued these courts.” Justice Wilentz went on:

[I]n other words, we decided that instead of fighting and fighting the battles, over the structure of this court, battles that have been lost year after year, we would see what we could do by way of improvement, by accepting the present system of appointing Municipal Court judges and by accepting the fact that they are going to remain local courts.

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