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- Title: Supreme Court Considers Adopting Rules of Court for Involuntary Civil Commitment Proceedings (Virginia)
- Author : Developments in Mental Health Law
- Release Date : January 01, 2011
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 71 KB
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The Supreme Court of Virginia has begun the process of adopting a new Part 9 to the Rules of Court for Involuntary Civil Commitment Proceedings under Title 37.2 of the Code of Virginia. The Rules of the Supreme Court of Virginia establish the procedures by which all civil and criminal proceedings in Virginia are conducted. Currently general Rules governing the practice of all civil cases in the Commonwealth have applied to civil commitment proceedings although none specially address this specialized type of case. In the fall of 2010, the Commonwealth of Virginia's Commission on Mental Health Law Reform established a task force to study whether adopting court rules would promote uniformity in the application of commitment laws and procedures throughout the Commonwealth. Then Chief Justice Leroy Rountree Hassell, Sr. selected and appointed the members of the task force, chaired by Gregory E. Lucyk, Chief Staff Attorney for the Virginia Supreme Court. The task force consists of one circuit court judge, one general district court judge, six special justices who preside over civil commitment cases throughout the Commonwealth, one attorney representing individuals in civil commitment proceedings, one representative from the Attorney General's Office, and staff from the Office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court.