Sentences with phrase «borne by litigants»
In most cases, the higher court costs will be borne by litigants or the lawyers who work on contingency fees in civil cases, attorneys said yesterday.
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«We are being asked to do more work than ever to prepare for hearings, and during hearings; and we must also bear the brunt of the added difficulties presented and experienced by litigants in person, often in very stressful circumstances, and — in family cases — by the added strains on local authority budgets.»
... 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).
After an overview of the Employment Tribunal regime in chapter 1, it launches into a consideration of the need for advice, thus openly pitching to the lowest common denominator of the litigant in person while in a balanced and unbiased manner (bearing in mind that it is written by seasoned practitioners) considering whether professional assistance is necessary.
Further, the suggestion that the employer should bear the burden of persuasion due to superior access to evidence has little force in the Title VII context, where the liberal discovery rules available to all litigants are supplemented by EEOC investigatory files.