This notice publishes the Supreme Courts December 4, 2012 Order adopting a series of amendments to the Part III and Part VII Rules Governing the Courts of the State of New Jersey. These rule amendments are effective January 1, 2013. They were initially recommended in the Report of the Supreme Court Special Committee on Discovery in Criminal and Quasi-Criminal Matters.
The Special Committee, chaired by Associate Justice Virginia A. Long, was charged with examining the policy and financial implications of more uniform and compatible means of providing discovery, including whether the types of software used to record and distribute electronic discovery should be limited in some fashion, and whether the amount charged to transmit that discovery should also be limited. The Special Committee subsequently made a series of recommendations intended to facilitate the exchange of discovery in criminal and quasi-criminal cases.
