The Florida Supreme Court this month eliminated a rule requiring new judges to take a daylong training session on the topic of “fairness and diversity” and also disbanded the court’s nearly 20-year-old committee that oversaw the training.

In a Feb. 2 administrative order, Chief Justice Carlos Muniz emphasized that recent policy changes would assure that new judges are exposed to ethics principles, including the subjects of civility, due process and equal justice under the law.

“The Code of Judicial Conduct … imposes obligations centered on judicial professionalism, procedural fairness and nondiscrimination in the court system,” Muniz said in the order. “Confident that Florida Judicial College offerings will thoroughly address these issues, the court has eliminated the requirement that new judges attend a separate, daylong training on ‘fairness and diversity.’ “