On 6/11/2020 11:19 AM, Jason Cobb via agora-discussion wrote: > The Referee and judges didn't necessarily opt in to being involved in > every possible contract dispute (and it allows more flexibility than the > rules currently do). And, if we end up using contracts more, then it > allows spreading dispute resolution between more people than shunting it > all onto the Referee.
I'd forgotten this point on the CFJ side. We had a problem with judges tending to punt/recuse on equity cases because they didn't want to take the time to dive into a whole new legal code for each case (makes sense). We ended up allowing judges to express judging interest on a finer scale (i.e. we had the rotation of inquiry judges, equity judges, and trial judges tracked separately) but with our small community the voluntary equity judges - not many - were overburdened and this contributed to the procedural difficulty of these cases. -G.
