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The following publications and documents are available online:

Court Management Documents and Reports:

Court Management Advisory Board:  Third Annual Report--2007   Enhancing the Delivery of Quality Justice - Court Metrics Report - Calendar Year 2007

Striving for Excellence in Judicial Administration

Examining the Work of State Courts -- Good Data Makes for Good Management:  The Massachusetts Court Metrics Project

Court Management Advisory Board 2006 Annual Report

Enhancing the Delivery of Quality Justice Report of the Court Metrics Project Calendar Year 2006

Visiting Committee on Management in the Courts Report to Chief Justice Margaret Marshall

Court Orders:

SJC Orders Regarding the Limited Representation Pilot Project

Commonwealth vs. Sean Dwyer, SJC-9563 --  Supreme Judicial Court Order which includes the Appendix and model notices and orders

Memorandum and Order in the Matter of the Commission on Judicial Conduct, Docket No. OE-1117

Forms:

Public Report of Extra-Judicial Income (for the year ending December 31, 2007)

Affidavit of Indigency and Related Documents

Letter Regarding Updated Notice of Assembly of Record  and Notice of Assembly of Record Form

Other Important Documents and Publications:

2008 Poverty Guidelines

Representing Yourself in a Civil Case: Things to Consider When Going to Court

Organization Chart of the Judiciary

A Guide to Court Connected Alternative Dispute Resolution

Within Our Reach: Gender, Racial and Ethnic Equality in the Courts

IOLTA Amendments

Model Jury Instructions on Homicide

The following publications are available through the Supreme Judicial Court Public Information Office at:

John Adams Courthouse
One Pemberton Square
Boston, MA 02108
Tel: (617) 557-1114
Fax: (617) 742-1807

Email: joan.kenney@sjc.state.ma.us

Annual Report on the State of the Massachusetts Court System
The Supreme Judicial Court

Supreme Judicial Court's Commission on Juvenile Justice Final Report and Executive Summary
The Commission on Juvenile Justice, (June 1994).

Equal Justice: Eliminating the Barriers
Final Report of the Supreme Judicial Court's Commission to Study Racial and Ethnic Bias in the Courts, (September 1994).

A Matter of Just Treatment: Substance Abuse and the Courts
Final Report of the Supreme Judicial Court's Substance Abuse Project Task Force (March 1995).

The Court Compass
Newsletter of the Massachusetts Judicial Branch
Available copies from 1999 - 2004