NCJ Number
86963
Date Published
1980
Length
53 pages
Annotation
This report describes recent legislation on legal issues, reports briefly on the operations of the Indigent Defense Fund and the family court, and presents numerous judicial statistics for New Hampshire.
Abstract
The bills described concern the insanity defense, the State district court system, statutory interest rates on judgments, use of an attorney to handle closing transactions on real property purchases, and revision of the business corporation statute. The report also discusses the proposed constitutional amendment regarding registers of probate. Statistics cover the caseloads of the supreme court, superior court, probate court, and district and municipal courts.