Georgia CommonsTitle 15. COURTS · Chapter 11. JUVENILE CODE · Article 2. JUVENILE COURT ADMINISTRATION
15-11-53. Practice of law by judges.
Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.
- (a)
It shall be unlawful for any full-time juvenile court judge to engage in any practice of law outside his or her role as a juvenile court judge.#
- (b)
It shall be unlawful for a part-time judge of any juvenile court to engage directly or indirectly in the practice of law in his or her own name or in the name of another as a partner in any manner in any case, proceeding, or matter of any kind in the court to which he or she is assigned or in any other court in any case, proceeding, or any other matters of which it has pending jurisdiction or has had jurisdiction.#
- (c)
It shall be unlawful for any juvenile court judge, full time or part time, to give advice or counsel to any person on any matter of any kind whatsoever which has arisen directly or indirectly in court, except such advice or counsel as a judge is called upon to give while performing the duties of a juvenile court judge.#
History
Code 1981, § 15-11-53, enacted by Ga. L. 2013, p. 294, § 1-1/HB 242.
Cross references
Judges shall regulate their extra-judicial activities to minimize the risk of conflict with their judicial duties, Georgia Code of Judicial Conduct, Canon 5.
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