Sentences with phrase «called to testify»

If you get brought into a civil suit and your income is questions and I'm called to testify about it, do you expect to have to compensate me for my time to show up to court as one of your witnesses?

All mental health professionals should be on equal grounds when called to testify by the court system.

Expert witnesses, friends and family may be called to testify against you or your partner or co-parent.

Dr. Robyn Tener was also called to testify.

Each of these individuals could not only be called to testify, but could also be interviewed by a child custody expert, such as Child and Family Investigators (CFI) or Parental Responsibilities Evaluators (PRE).

Although called to testify by the client's X2B, the client or the client's attorney may help the therapist with the logistics of testifying - when, where, navigating courthouse security, what to wear, and how to answer questions.

Mediators can not be subpoenaed or called to testify on behalf of mediation clients.

Many forensic psychologists are called to testify in criminal trials or to offer criminal profiling assistance in order to help law enforcement in solving an impending crime.

When they are called to testify in criminal trials they are called as expert witnesses and are expected to offer their testimony regarding the mental fitness of a defendant and sometimes they are used to help the judge in recommending a sentence.

The Facebook founder has been called to testify before Congress starting Tuesday.

Facebook's shares have dropped about 14 per cent since the news emerged and Zuckerberg has been called to testify before Congress in coming weeks.

Google and Twitter have also been called to testify before Congress on data privacy.

I know, earlier today, you sent a letter to Senator Grassley, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, with your Republican colleague John Kennedy of Louisiana, calling for hearings and calling for Mark Zuckerberg to be called to testify.

Zuckerberg has been called to testify before Congress over the incident, and may find himself hard - pressed to explain why Facebook let app developers access extensive data on users who hadn't willingly sharing it.

Most significantly, the Association criticizes the absence of standards under which a psychiatrist is called to testify and recommends that courts appoint a single expert instead of allowing counsel on each side to shop around for an expert that suits their case.

If a client informs Campbell that he will commit perjury should he be called to testify, she will not call him to the stand.

The respondent notes that both parties agreed that Nakita need not be called to testify at the trial, and that neither would attempt to draw an adverse inference from her absence.

However, she was not called to testify until late in the afternoon.

As an example, a jury would have a hard time trusting witnesses called to testify about a car accident that occurred 15 years ago.

(1) The Complaints Commission may, at the request of a party or on its own initiative, order that witnesses be excluded from the hearing until they are called to testify.

Hayer did respond to Legal Feeds and he is angry that because the law society reached a settlment with Randhawa there was no hearing and Hayer was never called to testify.

Jurors understand that the adversary system produces experts espousing opinions consistent with the side that called them to testify.

Limited the number of expert witnesses that can be called to testify in medical liability cases.

The investigator may be called to testify as a witness regarding those recommendations.

It is not uncommon in more complex cases for psychiatrists, psychologists, business valuators and accountants to be called to testify regarding custody and financial issues.

In most instances, this is achieved by working with medical experts familiar with the plaintiff's affliction (s), who are then called to testify as to the impact of the victim's injuries on his or her lifelong prognosis.

An expert witness must be called to testify to the specific duty that was owed to the plaintiff by the doctor.

In divorce cases, most experts are called to testify as to the value of the marital home, pensions, and privately - held businesses.

Counsel for Kumar Sriskanda, who is accused of fraudulent real estate transactions, told the hearing panel LSUC's counsel Glenn Stuart must be removed from the record because he will be called to testify for tampering with a witness.

Monica Goodling, a Justice Department official, invoked the Fifth Amendment when called to testify under oath before a Senate panel investigating the December 2006 purge of eight U.S. Attorneys.

«Those clients whom he called to testify expressed gratitude to him.

In addition to defending accountants in malpractice actions, we counsel and represent accountants called to testify in other proceedings.

In addition, we have represented accountants called to testify before Congress, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Department of Justice and various administrative agencies.

That argument is «even more speculative,» Nordheimer said, adding it's unknown what the witness will say when he is called to testify.

It can be an intimidating process to be called to testify.

Experts who are novices at testifying will feel much more comfortable after an overview of how trials proceed, some basics of the rules of evidence, and what to expect when they are called to testify.

Russert's legal training came in handy in 2006, The BLT notes, when he was called to testify in the trial of I. «Scooter» Lewis Libby.

The other question the court pondered in this case was whether the likelihood that Davis» lawyers could be called to testify should in itself disqualify the firm.

In fact, several reporters are even included on the list of witnesses who may be called to testify.

At a competency hearing, numerous eye witnesses are called to testify to this statement.

To act as a witness is to present yourself for series of questioning both by your lawyer (or the lawyer acting on behalf of the party in whose favour you were called to testify) and the lawyer at the opposing end.

A couple of different bloggers — Dwight Sullivan at CAAFlog and Danny Jacobs at On the Record — picked up on this piece of trivia from Sales» obits that I completely overlooked: He once served as an expert witness called to testify in the court martial of a sailor accused of tossing a pie into an officer's face.

As a result, not one of the ten experts called to testify even mentioned his name.

But in February, when Fred Smith was called to testify before the Senate Committee on environment and public works, he sounded like a cornered man.

This message plays well in the House of Representatives, so it's no surprise that Curry was called to testify at a subcommittee hearing there this spring.

But in February, when Smith was called to testify before the Senate Committee on environment and public works, he sounded like a cornered man.

He has been quoted in the New York Times and elsewhere as an authority on the issue, frequently called to testify before congressional panels and other public groups, and repeatedly raised questions about whether global warming is occurring.

In my August 20, 2013 blog piece, I briefly mentioned the role Minnesota assistant Attorney General Barbara Freese had in the May 1995 Minnesota Public Utilities Commission hearings where skeptic climate scientists were called to testify, and I detailed her subsequent association problems with Ross Gelbspan.

During the testimony, Laurie admitted she was not an expert in the subject matter she was called to testify on, and qualified experts in additional testimony...

I seem to recall that Sally Field was once called to testify about farm policy because she had played a farm woman in a movie.