Code of Virginia (Last Updated:July 28, 2020) |
TITLE 16.1. Courts Not of Record |
CHAPTER 4.1. District Courts |
ARTICLE 2. Districts; District Courts and Judges |
SECTION 16.1-69.12. Limitations on practice of law by judges |
(a) A general district court judge or juvenile and domestic relations district court judge elected as a full-time judge for a term commencing on or after July 1, 1980, shall be prohibited from engaging in the practice of law. (b) [Repealed.] (c) Substitute judges shall not appear as counsel in any civil or criminal case arising out of the circumstances which were involved in any other case brought before them. 1972, c. 708; 1973, c. 546; 1980, c. 194. |