STANDARD JURY INSTRUCTIONS - CIVIL CASES
This web site contains standard jury instructions prepared by the Florida Standard Jury Instructions Committee (Civil) and approved for publication by the Florida Supreme Court.
On July 1, 2010, the Florida Supreme Court issued this corrected decision SC09-284 reorganizing and renumbering the civil jury instructions book. The Court’s correction notice states that the corrected decision makes technical and typographical changes throughout the appendix to the previous decision issued on March 4, 2010. In the reorganized civil jury instruction book, many instructions have been revised to make them more understandable for jurors. In addition, the Court adopted substantive amendments to several instructions. The instructions in the reorganized civil jury instructions book are set forth in the appendix to the corrected decision and are now in effect.
Products Liability: The Court is still considering the committee’s proposal to substantially amend the products liability instructions, pending in case number SC09-1264. At this point, there are no substantive products liability instructions found in the reorganized jury instructions book. The substantive products liability instructions found in the former jury instructions book can be found here.
For information on how to use standard jury instructions, including when they are useful and when they are required, please refer to the How to Use this Book section in the Standard Jury Instructions in Civil Cases book and Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.470(b).
The committee encourages trial judges and trial counsel to suggest revisions to the standard instructions by CONTACTING THE COMMITTEE.
Viewing the Instructions:
Links to each individual Standard Jury Instruction for Civil Cases are provided in Rich Text Format. These documents are best viewed in a word processing application (Word or Word Perfect, etc.), not using a viewer.
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