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Rules of Evidence

URE 0409. Payment of medical and similar expenses; expressions of apology. Amend. Prohibits expressions of apology from being admitted as evidence of liability for an injury. Effective upon approval by 2/3rd majority of both houses of the Legislature. HJR 34, March 9, 2010.

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Code of Judicial Administration

CJA 04-0404. Jury selection and service. Amend. Provide for biannual jury analysis to the Judicial Council
CJA 04-0409. Council Approval of Problem Solving Courts. Amend. Establish best-practices criteria and require recertification biannually.
CJA 07-0304. Probation supervision. Amend. Add an assessment tool based on evidence-based practices for working with low-risk offenders.
CJA 10-01-0305. Mediation in small claims appeals. New. Requires mediation before a small claims trial de novo in Third District.

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Rules of Evidence

URE 0701. Opinion testimony by lay witnesses. Amend. Adds to the required grounds for opinion testimony by a lay witness that the opinion is not based on specialized knowledge within the scope of Rule 702.
URE 0703. Bases of opinion testimony by experts. Amend. Prohibits inadmissible data used to form an expert opinion from being disclosed to the jury unless the probative value substantially outweighs the prejudicial effect.
Supreme Court Order.

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Rules Governing the Utah State Bar

USB 14-0203. License categories. Amend. Specify that to qualify for the “active, under 3 years” category means to have practiced less than 3 years in any jurisdiction.
Supreme Court Order
USB 14-0507. Roster of lawyers and current record information. Amend. Require the Bar to collect, maintain and have ready access to a lawyer’s e-mail address. Lawyer could still designate the e-mail address as private.
Supreme Court Order
USB 14-0103. Organization and management of the Bar. Amend. Establish on-line election of president-elect and commissioners.
USB 14-0205. Board. Amend. Establish on-line election of president-elect and commissioners.
USB 14-0206. Officers. Amend. Establish on-line election of president-elect and commissioners.
Supreme Court Order.
USB 14-0510. Prosecution and appeals. Amend. The proposed amendments provide a right of appeal from an informal disciplinary proceeding, specify the rights of the complainant and respondent at the screening panel proceeding, and detail the exceptions and appeal procedures.
Supreme Court Order.

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Rules of Appellate Procedure

URAP 19. Extraordinary writs. Amend. The amendment will require a petitioner seeking extraordinary relief to state whether interlocutory appeal was sought, and if so, the results of the petition.
URAP 25. Brief of an amicus curiae or guardian ad litem. Amend. The proposal establishes specific deadlines for filing a brief of an amicus curiae.
URAP 37. Suggestion of mootness; voluntary dismissal. Amend. The amendments clarify that a suggestion of mootness should be filed only when one or more, but less than all, of the issues have become moot. If all the issues are moot, a motion for voluntary dismissal must be filed. The amendments also establish a process for filing a request for dismissal. The request must be in the form of a motion and is subject to court approval.
URAP 38. Substitution of counsel. Amend. The amendments clarify the process for substituting a party when a party becomes incompetent or for other causes.
URAP 49. Petition for writ of certiorari. Amend. A petition of writ of certiorari shall include references to the record on appeal or to the opinion of the Court Appeals, rather than referring to both sources.
URAP 50. Brief in opposition; reply brief; brief of an amicus curiae. Amend. The proposal establishes a more detailed process for submitting a proposed amicus brief, including the contents of the brief and deadlines.
Supreme Court Order

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Code of Judicial Administration

CJA 02-0104. Recording meetings. Amend. Modify provisions about Judicial Council audio record and minutes to conform to amendments to the Open and Public Meetings Act.
CJA 03-0102. Assumption of judicial office. Amend. Make applicable to judges of courts of record and not of record.
CJA 03-0306. Court interpreters. Repeal and Reenact. Clarifies the standards for appointing a certified, approved or conditionally approved interpreter. Improves the initial training requirements. Adds Guardianship and Conservatorship appointments to cases requiring a certified interpreter. Identifies the discipline process. Simplifies translation of forms. Permits hiring an interpreter as an employee.
CJA 04-0202.02 Record classification. Amend Classifies business address, phone and email of a non-party as a public record. Residential and personal information of a non-party would remain private.
CJA 04-0409. Council approval of Problem Solving Courts. Amend. Delete reference to repealed section of the Utah Code.
CJA 04-0701. Failure to appear. Amend. Conforming to HB 292, eliminates the requirement for a ciminal information before issuing a warrant for failure to appear in an infraction.
CJA 04-0906. Guardian ad litem program. Amend. Provides that the Guardian ad Litem Oversight Committee appoints the director.

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