Current law allows the CCA to appoint a senior Supreme Court or Superior Court judge to the Superior Court and, with the Chief Justice, to appoint a senior Supreme Court judge to the Supreme Court. The bill allows the CCA to delegate to a judge the power to transfer cases. Current law allows the CCA to transfer cases on his own motion when necessary for the efficient operation of the courts and to insure the prompt and proper administration of justice. The bill allows the Superior Court, on its motion, to transfer all civil cases, instead of only cases claimed to the jury, to a Superior Court in another district when the cause of justice requires it. The law already allows the court to transfer civil cases on its own motion, on a motion of any party, or by an agreement of the parties.
Senior judges have all the power of judges of the court to which they are assigned.
And they are eligible for reappointment to succeeding terms. Each assigned senior judge receives a per diem amount and expenses in addition to his retirement salary but his combined total compensation of retirement salary plus yearly per diem fees cannot exceed the highest salary on which his retirement salary is based.