Sentences with phrase «unrepresented at»

Unrepresented at the highest management structure of NOMS, neglected and misrepresented, the probation service has for years plodded along in the shadows, only to be thrust into the limelight when the spotlight fell on individual tragedies amid media frenzies.

Not exact matches

Definitely not the most important, but additional and recent, evidence is this issue of Spectrum, a YDS publication, in which we are told: «One of the most dynamic new student groups at YDS draws from a long unrepresented constituency at the divinity school: nonbelievers.

This is what happens when workers at the bottom of the heap are unorganised and unrepresented.

The number of constituencies represented this year at the conference at which Ed Milliband's election as leader was announced was the lowest in living memory — 412 meaning more than one in three parties was unrepresented.

Agents must first be queried by you, and publishers will 99.9 percent of the time not look at an unrepresented manuscript (if you don't have an agent who's sent it to them, they will never read it.)

Should it be the case that the Courts support that a REALTOR doesn't have an obligation to see that «patent defects» are noted on an Inspection Report (pursuant to Agency and fiduciary obligations) then the buyer clients of REALTOR's might as well buy privately, or at least, unrepresented by a REALTOR, as it relates to the question of the Inspection.

With a focus on emerging artists unrepresented by a gallery, the third Brooklyn edition of this fair offers art at a more affordable price than its larger rivals.

After working at the British Museum and the Barbican Art Gallery, she joined the Zabludowicz Collection as Curator, developing a programme of exhibitions, and initiating the Invites programme for unrepresented artists.

Every year, Redwood Media Group's LaunchPad Program selects two up - and - coming, unrepresented artists — one from San Diego and one from Miami — to exhibit their work at Art San Diego and Spectrum Miami respectively.

So we recently published some work looking at some previously unrepresented effects, like thawing of permafrosts, methane from the wetlands, aerosol interactions.

When the justice system is splitting at the seams, students can't find jobs, unrepresented litigants are clogging courts and new competitors are emerging to eat lawyers» lunches, the law society focuses on civility.

Although there are many, many examples of this, another recent case, this time from the Ontario Court of Appeal, shows that unrepresented litigants — who are generally unfamiliar with legal procedure — can unwittingly deprive themselves of the opportunity to assert their rights or put forward helpful evidence at the appropriate procedural juncture.

Lawyers will find practical advice on how to conduct themselves at all levels of representation, the roles of various parties, how to avoid common pitfalls, practice tips on effective advocacy and drafting, and dealing with unrepresented parties.

[30] Those unrepresented parties are at a huge disadvantage because, among other reasons, many judges require self - represented litigants to perform as if they were lawyers; if they do not, they are denied the relief they request.

[29] Further, the report states, in Arkansas almost every family law matter has at least one unrepresented party.

With «legal aid» these days meaning a lawyer who helps ladies across the road, there must be more than an evens chance that each time you turn up at court, your opponent will be unrepresented.

Unrepresented accused persons + the greater rate at which they plead guilty + the power given the Crown prosecutor by plea bargaining, produce a lot of injustice.

[30] It must be obvious to the mother, even as an unrepresented litigant, that the time deadlines imposed at the case management meetings for the filing of affidavits and briefs and concluding cross examinations are significant and can not be casually disregarded on a whim.

Unrepresented litigants are at an all - time high, the costs of resolving a matter through the courts are seen as being oppressive and the delays from incident to resolution are long.

When unrepresented, the victims of domestic violence may continue to be victimized by the aggressor by having to communicate directly with that person, often when they are at their weakest.

Recent Bill 166 separates Tarion into two agencies, but does not address the imbalance at the LAT for unrepresented consumers (Ontario government)

Once the «in court» part of a case is completed, a judge dealing with unrepresented parties then needs to arrive at an appropriate decision without having the benefit of receiving at least one lawyer's submissions.

At the conclusion of the «in court» part of a trial or a sentencing process involving unrepresented litigants, the presiding judge takes on additional responsibilities.

... costs borne by society at large include: costs associated with delays in court and administrative proceedings; increased court operation costs attributable to unrepresented litigants and accused; and, more broadly, costs associated with legal problems that are not resolved in an acceptable manner (including increased health care costs, increased social assistance costs and so on).

According to a report released in 1998 by a Boston Bar Association Task Force, in some Massachusetts counties, more than 75 percent of the cases in Probate and Family Courts have at least one party unrepresented.

Acting for a petroleum company in which the issue is the right of an unrepresented and absent respondent to lodge an appeal against an arbitral award at the point of enforcement and involves a subject sum of USD 93,720,000.

The Court of Appeal determined that the unrepresented family litigant «had not understood what was required of him to secure the admission of the proposed evidence at trial.»

At least 60 % of parties are unrepresented.

The courageous argument of the tenants — or at least one of the two who participated in the second tier appeal, the landlords being unrepresented after two previous outings at which they were victorious and submissions being made by an advocate to the court — was that the landlords had been under an obligation to mitigate their loss and had failed to do so by forfeiting the lease despite knowing of the tenants» plight.

At least one ethics opinion cautions that an attorney may instruct his or her paralegal, investigator, or other agent to «friend request» an unrepresented party on Facebook in an attempt to surreptitiously gain access to that party's online information.

At present, the bulk of public services seem to me to be delivered at one of three points in people's involvement with the law: general public legal information delivered through seminars, workshops and pamphlets to people who are idly grazing for legal information or helping a friend; narrowly - focused legal information, advice and representation delivered to individuals at the moment of crisis, often following separation, a threat to take the children or service of process; or, detailed, concrete legal information and advice delivered to individuals who are well engaged in a proceeding, usually unrepresented by counsel, and are seeking details about specific issues, such as making or replying to an application, demanding or making disclosure or preparing for triaAt present, the bulk of public services seem to me to be delivered at one of three points in people's involvement with the law: general public legal information delivered through seminars, workshops and pamphlets to people who are idly grazing for legal information or helping a friend; narrowly - focused legal information, advice and representation delivered to individuals at the moment of crisis, often following separation, a threat to take the children or service of process; or, detailed, concrete legal information and advice delivered to individuals who are well engaged in a proceeding, usually unrepresented by counsel, and are seeking details about specific issues, such as making or replying to an application, demanding or making disclosure or preparing for triaat one of three points in people's involvement with the law: general public legal information delivered through seminars, workshops and pamphlets to people who are idly grazing for legal information or helping a friend; narrowly - focused legal information, advice and representation delivered to individuals at the moment of crisis, often following separation, a threat to take the children or service of process; or, detailed, concrete legal information and advice delivered to individuals who are well engaged in a proceeding, usually unrepresented by counsel, and are seeking details about specific issues, such as making or replying to an application, demanding or making disclosure or preparing for triaat the moment of crisis, often following separation, a threat to take the children or service of process; or, detailed, concrete legal information and advice delivered to individuals who are well engaged in a proceeding, usually unrepresented by counsel, and are seeking details about specific issues, such as making or replying to an application, demanding or making disclosure or preparing for trial.

Insurance adjusters are skilled at getting the answers they want from unrepresented individuals.

From 1998 to 2008, served as Co-Chair of the Boston Bar Association's Real Estate Section Pro Bono Committee, which created and operates the highly regarded Lawyer for the Day Program at the Boston Housing Court (where volunteer lawyers advise unrepresented individuals with evictions and eviction defenses).

Lastly, unrepresented litigants in the area of family law are an epidemic that eats away at valuable court resources.

Recent research has shown that the problem is getting worse, with 80 % of private family cases having at least one party unrepresented.

Legal Aid's Duty Counsel Program provides summary legal advice and assistance to unrepresented persons for preliminary appearances before the courts and selected tribunals is offered at no cost to the person.

1 For attempts to measure the effect of advocacy quality through other means, see, e.g., Banks Miller et al., Leveling the Odds: The Effect of Quality Legal Representation in Cases of Asymmetrical Capability, 49 Law & Soc» y Rev. 209 (2015)(finding that high quality representation evened the odds for asylum applicants and that asylum seekers fared better when unrepresented than when represented by a poor lawyer); Mitchell J. Frank & Dr. Osvaldo F. Morera, Professionalism and Advocacy at Trial — Real Jurors Speak in Detail About the Performance of Their Advocates, 64 Baylor L. Rev. 1, 38 (2012)(finding statistically significant correlations in criminal cases between jurors» perceptions of closing argument persuasiveness and jury verdict, and finding statistically significant correlations in civil cases between perceptions of defense counsel's closing argument persuasiveness and defense verdict); James M. Anderson & Paul Heaton, How Much Difference Does the Lawyer Make?

A Court of Appeal judge was also «horrified» at the number of unrepresented litigants, warning that the delays caused will «clog up» the justice system.

Andrea also provides advice and assistance to unrepresented litigants at Courts in the Toronto - area.

this is wrong., if you are unrepresented, but for yourself, and it is not a level playing field, may I also assume that judgements of vexatious leveled at you would be just a way to keep everyone who has no lawyer out of court.

It is at this point that Commission administrative and legal staff can again spend time with unrepresented parties in explaining next steps, even though all decisions issued by the Commission include additional instructions regarding further review and appeal options.

Lastly, even at sentencing an experienced defence lawyer can achieve a significantly different result than an unrepresented accused.

If the manager does not know when to, for example, advise their employee that they have a right to have a shop steward present at a meeting then not only is the employee unrepresented but the process gets all screwed up and you get perverse outcomes at the end.

(iv) the EAT can see a glaring injustice in refusing to allow an unrepresented party to rely on evidence which could have been adduced at the employment tribunal;

Both solutions will occur because the power of the news media and of the internet, interacting, will quickly make widely known these types of information, the cumulative effect of which will force governments and the courts to act: (1) the situations of the thousands of people whose lives have been ruined because they could not obtain the help of a lawyer; (2) the statistics as to the increasing percentages of litigants who are unrepresented and clogging the courts, causing judges to provide more public warnings; (3) the large fees that some lawyers charge; (4) increasing numbers of people being denied Legal Aid and court - appointed lawyers; (5) the many years that law societies have been unsuccessful in coping with this problem which continues to grow worse; (6) people prosecuted for «the unauthorized practice of law» because they tried to help others desperately in need of a lawyer whom they couldn't afford to hire; (7) that there is no truly effective advertising creating competition among law firms that could cause them to lower their fees; (8) that law societies are too comfortably protected by their monopoly over the provision of legal services, which is why they might block the expansion of the paralegal profession, and haven't effectively innovated with electronic technology and new infrastructure so as to be able to solve this problem; (9) that when members of the public access the law society website they don't see any reference to the problem that can assure them that something effective is being done and, (10) in order for the rule of law, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the whole of Canada's constitution be able to operate effectively and command sufficient respect, the majority of the population must be able to obtain a lawyer at reasonable cost.

As the Ontario Court of Appeal stated in Davids v. Davids, [1999] O.J. No. 3930 at para. 36 and repeated again in College of Optometrists of Ontario v. SHS Optical Ltd., 2008 ONCA 685 at para. 57: «Fairness does not demand that the unrepresented litigant be able to present his case as effectively as a competent lawyer.

At the very least, these will assist unrepresented litigants in understanding the limits of any recourse available to them.

He noted that there has been «a significant increase in the number of litigants in person» due in part to the retrenchment in state expenditure and the relatively high cost of legal fees, and suggested «introducing a more inquisitorial form of process in civil proceedings where both or at least one party is unrepresented.»

When at least one party is unrepresented by counsel, the terms «Appearing in person», «Appearing for the...» or «Appearing on their own behalf» come below the style of cause.

The objective of the program is for a volunteer attorney to be available at the Forcible Entry and Detainer (FED) Docket to meet with unrepresented parties in the courtroom after the docket is called and, if necessary, to provide representation at the hearings or conferences which take place that same day.