Sentences with phrase «alternative to court because»

Mediation is usually an advantageous alternative to court because it is less expensive and faster than going through a court trial.

Not exact matches

My own father, a person of the highest moral character and integrity was accused of being shady by my abuser because he tried to find us alternative housing when my abuser (although court ordered to pay the mortgage) willfully and vindictively drove it into foreclosure and the kids and I homeless, while he went off and bought he and his spiritual wife a new home.

Lower court judges and the justices of the Supreme Court have «failed to offer a «principled or predictable alternative» to «strict separation» because they — like the American people — do not agree among themselves on the nature of the problem or how to resolvcourt judges and the justices of the Supreme Court have «failed to offer a «principled or predictable alternative» to «strict separation» because they — like the American people — do not agree among themselves on the nature of the problem or how to resolvCourt have «failed to offer a «principled or predictable alternative» to «strict separation» because they — like the American people — do not agree among themselves on the nature of the problem or how to resolve it.

He said the courts were giving short prison sentences because there were not enough alternative punishments, and that he wanted to make community sentences tougher.

The governor has admitted, though that a veto would be «chaotic», because then the new districts would be designed by the courts, so the only alternative is to win rapid agreement with lawmakers on new lines early in the New Year.

Meanwhile, technology limits the impact of the Supreme Court ruling: The falling price of whole - genome sequencing, which sidesteps patents altogether because it doesn't require isolating a gene, makes it a reasonable alternative to a patented BRCA - style test.

Because Defendants have failed to establish that no alternative, nondiscriminatory means exist to address their legitimate purpose, this Court finds that the LCFS violates the dormant Commerce Clause.

Indeed, the Supreme Court recognises at Paragraph 79 that the UK's specific constitutional arrangement with regard to EU law arose at least in part because «there was no practical alternative to such an arrangement in a dualist system».

All of these problems are further inflamed because investment arbitration is explicitly designed as an alternative to domestic courts, operating entirely independently of those domestic courts.

The court should be slow to entertain an application for judicial review as an alternative to an appeal by way of case stated just because the time limit for an appeal has been missed, even if the fault lies with the claimant's solicitors rather than with the claimant personally.

Because divorce is a problem to be solved, not a battle to be won, I focus on alternatives to the court system, through Collaborative Law and Mediation.

On March 23, 2016, a First Circuit panel of three judges, which included retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter, ruled that a district judge properly dismissed Michael Tersigni's negligent design claim because he failed to present evidence of a reasonable alternative design.

Although the Court did not consider the sufficiency of this alternative in Saskatchewan Federation of Labour v. Saskatchewan (because it was not provided for under PSESA), it is likely that such alternatives will continue to pass constitutional scrutiny, so long as they are only unilaterally imposed to the extent that strike activity will have serious implications.

In criticizing that decision, I argued that «the fact that courts may have fewer litigants able or willing to go before them can not, in itself, be an interference with their jurisdiction [because i] f it were, a great many rules encouraging litigants to settle their dispute or to use alternative dispute - resolution mechanisms would be unconstitutional too.»

In the Henry case in British Columbia, the government was able to pass the third step of the Oakes test largely because, under the current rules, vouching is permitted: «Looking at the scheme as a whole, taking into account the broad range of options available for proof of identity and residence,» wrote Madam Justice Smith of the B.C. Supreme Court, «I am satisfied that there are no alternative, less drastic means of achieving both of Canada's legislative objectives in a real and substantial manner.»

The fact that our corporations are increasingly looking at using private courts as an alternative to the civil justice system because of its slow pace and higher costs (among other reasons) is a testament to the underlying problems.

Yet we still send clerks, process servers and articling students to the court house to sit in line for hours on end to issue our Statements of Claim and file our motion records, because there is no other alternative.

According to the Insurance Research Council, as many as one in five convictions for traffic violations never end up on motor vehicle records due to lack of shared information between courts and motor vehicle departments, or because a conviction has been erased through alternative means, such as driving school for a speeding ticket.

The potential for bartering away the child's financial resources because of a bad faith request for custody is reinforced by («friendly parent») provisions that give a preference to the parent requesting joint custody when the alternative of sole custody is considered by the court.

Because divorce is a problem to be solved, not a battle to be won, I focus on alternatives to the court system, through Collaborative Law and Mediation.

Because these alternatives continue to be adversarial and use the same standards as divorce court when trying to evaluate offers and proposals.