Sentences with phrase «allow testimony in court»

The Ontario Legislature seems likely to pass shortly the Access to Justice Act, Bill 14, which in Schedule E amends the Provincial Offences Act to allow testimony in court by electronic means.

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These organizations should be cut off from defining public policy and the courts should be restricted in allowing their testimony, bias and words to define the courts decision.

Howe will be allowed to wear a suit instead of a prison jumpsuit when his testimony resumes in Manhattan federal court.

Powerful said this was what Kanu meant when he said he had evidence that would sink Nigeria if he was allowed to give testimony in court.

The judge indicated the lawyer, Richard Morvillo, was allowed to be in court and rules preventing witnesses from hearing other witness testimony did not apply to him.

This was what he meant when he said that he has evidence to sink Nigeria if allowed to give testimony in court.

Jurors weren't allowed to hear testimony that Bill Cosby's chief accuser was once hooked on hallucinogenic mushrooms or had her sights set on becoming a millionaire, but that hasn't stopped the defense from airing the explosive claims about Andrea Constand in the court of public opinion.

That's why, for example, expert testimony is allowed in court, but only if the expert is actually competent in the field in question and sticks to making testimony in the field in which they are competent.

As to whether the trial court, applying its discretion, should allow or disallow a new expert witness in the refiled case, the criteria are: surprise, prejudice, the nature of the testimony, the diligence of the adverse party, the timeliness of the objection and the good faith of the party seeking to add the new witness.

While the legal profession wrangles over the relatively minor issue of allowing testimony by Skype and other technologies, there are those that are looking at resolving millions of disputes in ways that are arguably better, faster and cheaper as compared to traditional courts.

In other words, it is likely that courts will rely upon this provision, as well as article 279 (hearing witnesses at a distance), to allow testimony by video - conference and other such things.

New Jersey Supreme Court Ruling Allows Treating Physicians to Give Opinion Testimony in Disability Discrimination Cases, New Jersey Employment Lawyer Blog, March 29, 2017

Now, I've learned that in a criminal trial where the defendant is alleged to have strangled his wife, but contends that it wasn't he who caused her death but a canine, the court may allow the prosecution to present expert testimony on the possibility of smothering - by - dog.

Over the last several years courts have grappled with when, and how, to allow the use of court facility dogs to assist witnesses and victims in giving testimony.

In this medical malpractice case, a Norfolk Circuit Court agrees with defendant that plaintiff's expert designations of two dentists are insufficient to allow their testimony on the standard of care, but the court will allow plaintiff to amend the expeCourt agrees with defendant that plaintiff's expert designations of two dentists are insufficient to allow their testimony on the standard of care, but the court will allow plaintiff to amend the expecourt will allow plaintiff to amend the expert...

A Richmond Circuit Court vacates defendant's 2012 drug and weapon convictions, as a detective in the case committed perjury in his testimony about the history and reliability of a confidential informant, which was extrinsic fraud that allows defendant's collateral attack...

Many courts allow testimony by telephone if a motion requesting it is made in advance and other procedural steps are followed.

It was only after a care order, that the parents were able to obtain a second opinion with the court's permission, this supported accidental injury, and allowed a rehearing, in which the original expert's testimony was very much at odds with his original one and the parents were vindicated.

The report: Former Director James Comey made the phone the focal point of Congressional testimony in 2016 that the FBI was powerless to conduct some investigations without new laws or a court order to allow it access encrypted data.

In custody cases, the court will often allow testimony by psychologists or social workers to help determine what decisions are in the best interests of the childreIn custody cases, the court will often allow testimony by psychologists or social workers to help determine what decisions are in the best interests of the childrein the best interests of the children.

«[A] ppellant contends that the trial court erred in allowing expert testimony regarding Parental Alienation Syndrome, because the testimony did not meet the standards of Frye... Appellant failed to make this argument before the expert testified, therefore the point is waived for review.»

No dog in the history of New York courts had been allowed to accompany a child witness to the stand to provide comfort during testimony.

If LMFTs are amended onto this bill, it would also allow us to offer court testimony through deposition in lieu of lengthy and costly court appearances.