OFFICIAL 2021 - Connecticut

OFFICIAL

2023

CONNECTICUT PRACTICE BOOK

(Revision of 1998)

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2023

CONNECTICUT PRACTICE BOOK

(Revision of 1998)

CONTAINING

RULES OF PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT CODE OF JUDICIAL CONDUCT

RULES FOR THE SUPERIOR COURT RULES OF APPELLATE PROCEDURE

APPENDIX OF FORMS NOTICE REGARDING OFFICIAL JUDICIAL BRANCH FORMS

APPENDIX OF SECTION 1-9B CHANGES

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EXPLANATORY NOTES

The Superior Court Rules as organized herein were first published in the Connecticut Law Journal dated July 29, 1997. This 2023 edition of the Practice Book contains amendments to the Rules of Professional Conduct, the Superior Court Rules and the Rules of Appellate Procedure. The amendments were published in the Connecticut Law Journals dated July 12, 2022, and July 26, 2022.

The system used to number each section is based on the chapter in which the section is located. Each section has a two part number. The first part of the number designates the chapter, and the second part designates the number of the section within that chapter (Chapter 1 begins with 1-1, Chapter 2 with 2-1, etc.). The internal breakdown of individual rules follows the style of the General Statutes. Subsections are designated by lower case letters in parentheses, (a), (b), subdivisions are designated by numbers in parentheses, (1), (2), and subparagraphs are designated by upper case letters in parentheses, (A), (B).

Origin of the rules. A parenthetical notation about the origin of each rule is found at the end of every section in this volume. The notation (P.B. 1978-1997, Sec. ) indicates the number of the section in the 1978-1997 Practice Book corresponding to the current section. Current numbers of any sections corresponding to the sections in the 1978-1997 Practice Book appear in the Reference Tables following the text of the rules. The notation (1998) indicates that the section was new in the 1998 Practice Book, taking effect October 1, 1997. The notation (See P.B. 1978-1997, Sec. ) (1998) indicates that the section was modeled on a rule in the 1978-1997 Practice Book but was actually adopted for the first time to take effect October 1, 1997. There may be significant differences between the rules in this volume and those in the 1978-1997 Practice Book on which they were modeled. The temporary numbers assigned to those rules in the July 29, 1997 Connecticut Law Journal, where they were originally published, appear in the Reference Tables following the text of the rules.

When a section was adopted or amended after 1997, a parenthetical notation to that effect appears either immediately following the text of the section or following the parenthetical notation concerning the derivation of the section. When the title to a section has been amended, a parenthetical notation appears immediately following the title.

Histories and commentaries. Histories describing the nature of amendments and Commentaries indicating the intended purpose of new rules or amendments to existing rules are printed following the text of new or amended rules. Histories and Commentaries are included for only those rules that were adopted or amended to take effect in the year corresponding to the current edition of the Practice Book, with the following exceptions: (1) the Histories and Commentaries to the rules on sealing of files and closure of the courtroom will be retained on a cumulative basis; (2) the 2014 and 2021 Commentaries to Section 1-10B, the 2021 Commentary to Section 1-11C, the 2017 Commentary to Section 2-27A, the 2022 Commentary to Section 25-6A and the 2022 Commentary to Section 37-1 have been retained; and (3) Commentaries to certain sections of the Rules of Appellate Procedure have been retained. Users wanting to access the Histories documenting rule changes and Commentaries to new or amended rules, in a given year, should not discard the corresponding edition of the Practice Book. For example, Histories and Commentaries corresponding to rule changes to take effect January 1, 2023, will appear only in the 2023 edition of the Practice Book and not in subsequent editions, unless the rule falls into one of the exceptions, listed previously.

The Commentaries to the rules of practice are included in this volume for informational purposes only. Commentaries to those rules are not adopted by the judges and justices when they vote to adopt proposed rule changes. Commentaries to the Rules of Professional Conduct

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and Code of Judicial Conduct are adopted by the judges and justices and are printed in every edition of the Practice Book.

Beginning in 2000, Amendment Notes were incorporated into the Rules of Professional Conduct and the Code of Judicial Conduct. Those notes, approved by the Rules Committee of the Superior Court to explain the revisions to the Rules of Professional Conduct and Code of Judicial Conduct, appear only in the edition of the Practice Book corresponding to the year of the revision and not in subsequent editions.

Every year, certain nonsubstantive, technical editorial changes are made to a number of the rules. Some, but not all, of these changes are explained in Technical Change notes.

The Rules of Appellate Procedure. The reorganization of the Rules of Appellate Procedure in 1998 was completed subsequent to the publication of the July 29, 1997 Connecticut Law Journal and was published in this volume for the first time in 1998. The goal in reorganizing the Rules of Appellate Procedure was to present them in the order in which an appellant might approach the appeal process, i.e., rules on whether to appeal, how to file, what to do next, when argument will take place, opinions and reargument. Rules on various special proceedings were organized into separate chapters. No substantive changes were made in the course of reorganization, but there were editorial changes.

In the Connecticut Law Journal of July 13, 2021, certain rules pertaining to briefing and the preparation of the appellate record were amended and/or adopted. This edition of the Practice Book contains two versions of certain of those rules, indicating whether the rule is applicable to appeals filed before October 1, 2021, or applicable to appeals filed on or after October 1, 2021. In the 2022 edition of the Practice Book, there were two versions of Section 63-4. Only one version of that rule is included in this edition, and the parenthetical indicating to which appeals it applies has been removed.

Juvenile matters. Effective January 1, 2003, the rules pertaining to procedure in juvenile matters were amended and reorganized. The amendments initially were published in the Connecticut Law Journal of July 23, 2002. The July 23, 2002 Connecticut Law Journal gave notice that the rules on juvenile matters, which, since 1998, had been found in Chapters 26 through 35, had been moved to Chapters 26a through 35a. In the Practice Book itself, however, the original numbers of the juvenile rules were retained whenever possible.

Appendices and notices. In 2002, an Appendix was added following the Index. The Appendix contains certain forms that previously had been in Volume 2 of the 1978-1997 Practice Book. The Appendix of Superior Court Standing Orders, which was added in 2010, was removed in 2012. A notice referring the reader to the Judicial Branch website for access to the Superior Court Standing Orders was substituted in its place. The Index of Official Judicial Branch Forms Used in Civil, Family and Juvenile Matters, which was added in 2010, was removed in 2018. A notice referring the reader to the Judicial Branch website for access to official Judicial Branch forms was substituted in its place. In 2021, a Temporary Appendix was added noting various changes enacted by the Rules Committee of the Superior Court, and subsequently adopted by the judges of the Superior Court, pursuant to Section 1-9B, in response to the public health emergency and the civil preparedness emergency initially declared by Governor Lamont on March 10, 2020, and then renewed by him on September 1, 2020, and January 26, 2021. The public health emergency was renewed on June 28, 2022, and is scheduled to expire on December 28, 2022, or when the federal public health emergency ends. Subsequent changes may be adopted. Refer to jud.ct. gov, jud.COVID19.htm, and jud.pb.htm for updates.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Attorney's Oath . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Rules of Professional Conduct

Preamble. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Rules and Commentaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Code of Judicial Conduct Preamble. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Canons, Rules and Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Superior Court Rules and Rules of Appellate Procedure

Chapter and Section Headings of the Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Superior Court--General Provisions

Chapter 1 Scope of Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Chapter 2 Attorneys. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Chapter 3 Appearances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 Chapter 4 Pleadings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 Chapter 5 Trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 Chapter 6 Judgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182 Chapter 7 Clerks; Files and Records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Superior Court--Procedure in Civil Matters

Chapter 8 Commencement of Action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 Chapter 9 Parties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192 Chapter 10 Pleadings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198 Chapter 11 Motions, Requests, Orders of Notice and Short Calendar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 Chapter 12 Transfer of Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219 Chapter 13 Discovery and Depositions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220 Chapter 14 Dockets, Trial Lists, Pretrials and Assignment Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240 Chapter 15 Trials in General; Argument by Counsel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247 Chapter 16 Jury Trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249 Chapter 17 Judgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255 Chapter 18 Fees and Costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267 Chapter 19 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270 Chapter 20 Hearings in Chambers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273 Chapter 21 Receivers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274 Chapter 22 Unemployment Compensation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277 Chapter 23 Miscellaneous Remedies and Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279 Chapter 24 Small Claims . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

Superior Court--Procedure in Family Matters

Chapter 25 General Provisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

Superior Court--Procedure in Family Support Magistrate Matters

Chapter 25a Family Support Magistrate Matters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

Superior Court--Procedure in Juvenile Matters

Chapter 26 General Provisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

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Chapter 27 Reception and Processing of Delinquency Complaints or Petitions . . . . . . . . . 330 Chapter 28 Delinquency and Family with Service Needs Nonjudicial Supervision [Repealed] . 333 Chapter 29 Reception and Processing of Delinquency Petitions and Delinquency Informations 334 Chapter 30 Detention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335 Chapter 30a Delinquency Hearings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339 Chapter 31 Delinquency and Family with Service Needs Hearing [Repealed] . . . . . . . . . . 342 Chapter 31a Delinquency Motions and Applications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343 Chapter 32 Neglected, Uncared for and Dependent Children and Termination of Parental Rights

[Repealed] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347 Chapter 32a Rights of Parties, Neglected, Abused and Uncared for Children and Termination

of Parental Rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348 Chapter 33 Hearings concerning Neglected, Uncared for and Dependent Children and Termina-

tion of Parental Rights [Repealed] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351 Chapter 33a Petitions for Neglect, Uncared for, Dependency and Termination of Parental Rights:

Initiation of Proceedings, Orders of Temporary Custody and Preliminary Hearings . . . . . 352 Chapter 34 Rights of Parties [Repealed] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356 Chapter 34a Pleadings, Motions and Discovery Neglected, Abused and Uncared for Children

and Termination of Parental Rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357 Chapter 35 General Provisions [Repealed] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362 Chapter 35a Hearings concerning Neglected, Abused and Uncared for Children and Termination

of Parental Rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363

Superior Court--Procedure in Criminal Matters

Chapter 36 Procedure Prior to Appearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373 Chapter 37 Arraignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377 Chapter 38 Pretrial Release . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381 Chapter 39 Disposition without Trial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389 Chapter 40 Discovery and Depositions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394 Chapter 41 Pretrial Motions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405 Chapter 42 Trial Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409 Chapter 43 Sentencing, Judgment, and Appeal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421 Chapter 44 General Provisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430

Rules of Appellate Procedure

Chapter 60 General Provisions Relating to Appellate Rules and Appellate Review . . . . . . . 438 Chapter 61 Remedy by Appeal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442 Chapter 62 Chief Judge, Appellate Clerk and Docket: General Administrative Matters . . . . . 452 Chapter 63 Filing the Appeal; Withdrawals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457 Chapter 64 Procedure concerning Memorandum of Decision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464 Chapter 65 Transfer of Matters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465 Chapter 66 Motions and Other Procedures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467 Chapter 67 Briefs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472 Chapter 68 Case File and Clerk Appendix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486 Chapter 69 Assignment of Cases for Argument . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490 Chapter 70 Arguments and Media Coverage of Court Proceedings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491 Chapter 71 Appellate Judgments and Opinions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494 Chapter 72 Writs of Error. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496 Chapter 73 Reservations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499 Chapter 74 Decisions of Judicial Review Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501 Chapter 75 Appeals from Council on Probate Judicial Conduct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503 Chapter 76 Appeals in Workers' Compensation Cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504

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