Developments in court administration have come at a rapid rate during the past decade. The efforts of Chief Justice Warren Burger have contributed greatly to this accelerated growth. In assessing the state of the judiciary, he termed challenges to our system of justice colossal and immediate, and assigned priority to methods and machinery, to procedure and techniques, to management and adminis tration of judicial resources. These, he reasoned, would not be the long range undertakings that re-examination of outdated substantive legal institutions would be