Sentences with phrase «cases end up in court»

Still, other cases end up in court, so your lawyer should have the negotiation and litigation skills necessary to handle all scenarios.

The truth of the matter is that very few personal injury cases end up in court.

Scott Stringer, the city comptroller, tells the New York Times that he wants to settle with the Garner family before the case ends up in court.

Some states may even require that you provide receipts for repairs over a certain amount in case you end up in court.

Yet Katherine's case ended up in court not because of any deficiency in her care but because the lawyers in the case argued that Katherine was deprived of her liberty.

Katherine's case ended up in court because of a recent precedent, decided not by asking the big question of «what is «liberty»?»

In fact, it's for this reason the case ended up in court and apparently, the story could be the same with respect to the new Google Pixel 2 XL.

As such you will have to pay for your own legal fees in case you end up in court.

Not exact matches

Because the case was tied up in court for years, he said, the narrative from the Democratic side ended up being about how unfair and difficult the law made it for many to vote.

When I was working on it from 1974 to 1994, it did not cross my mind that a legal case that would end up in the Supreme Court would be the consequence of my work and I'm so gratified that it was a unanimous decision.»

That if I was one of the less than 5 % of cases that ends up in court, it might not go my way.

The Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (CAFCASS) has the role of championing children's best interests in the family court system — so if you end up in court fighting for custody of your child, or if the local authority takes out care proceedings, a CAFCASS social worker will be assigned to the Court Advisory and Support Service (CAFCASS) has the role of championing children's best interests in the family court system — so if you end up in court fighting for custody of your child, or if the local authority takes out care proceedings, a CAFCASS social worker will be assigned to the court system — so if you end up in court fighting for custody of your child, or if the local authority takes out care proceedings, a CAFCASS social worker will be assigned to the court fighting for custody of your child, or if the local authority takes out care proceedings, a CAFCASS social worker will be assigned to the case.

But 2013 saw the dramatic denouement, in which Vicky Pryce and her ex-husband paid for the breakup of their marriage with a self - destructive court case which ended up with both in prison.

As an astute lawyer of your calibre and with your long association with the British legal system, I am very sure you know of the latter enactment, by declaring the court of High Commission, which James 11, had endeavoured to reestablish under the name of the commissioners for Ecclesiastical Caucus, to be illegal, put an end for ever to the attempts of the crown to set up courts where men might be tried in an uncertain and arbitrary manner, and which had proved such a fertile source of tyranny in the case of the then star chamber.

Additionally, Bruno will remain free until the Supreme Court rules on the constitutionality of the law used to convict him — meaning there is a chance that the case could end up in no jail time for Bruno.

«There may be others that dispute that and, if that's the case, it may end up in the courts.»

2) The governor and the Senate Republicans (who pledged during last year's campaign, before they were in the majority, to back independent redistricting) can both refuse to yield, indefinitely, in which case the process will likely end up in court, and out of the hands of the legislature.

A former New York State senator pleaded guilty on Wednesday to falsifying evidence in an attempt to cover up the theft of taxpayer money from a nonprofit agency that she founded, ending a prominent corruption case that included charges in federal and state courts.

Sean Ryan [email protected] The Wisconsin Department of Transportation had better fix its public hearing process and justify its decisions or it will end up back in court, according to grass - roots organizers who won a federal case against the state.

Still, like any court case, it's all about whether you get a verdict in your favor in the end, and my verdict of From the Hip ends up a positive one, based on its style more so than its substance.

«It's the cases that involve brain injuries that usually end up in court,» says Yazdani.

Even if win the case in court, you will still be left wondering who ended up being better off than you, the borrower or your lawyer.

If the case ends up going to trial, these discussions won't be used as evidence in court.

He said the ruling's logic can apply in Bedford v. Canada (Attorney General), the prostitution case likely to end up at the Supreme Court.

Julian Ku at Opinio Juris suggests that in the case of the pirate captured by Americans, a Kenyan court would probably end up giving a light sentence, while a U.S. court would provide him with constitutional rights — but neither option will create much deterrence of future piracy.

These can be as simple as stocking your office with snacks in case you end up waving goodbye to your dinner plans, or keeping comfy shoes under your desk when you need to rush to court to file on an urgent basis.

It is only a handful of cases that end up in the court process.

What I think will end up happening is that the Supreme Court will vacate and remand in Gall and Kimbrough, make clear that district judges have lots of authority to move up and down, and then eventually the Supreme Court will take on of Scalia's hypotheticals (there are undoubtedly cases in the pipeline that fit Scalia's hypotheticals).

She believed that if she lost a small claims court case where she was the plaintiff, she would end up in jail.

«Cases took forever and you ended up sitting in court for hours and I wasn't happy in that field so went into corporate law and it's where I've been ever since,» he says.

In the case of Canada, the 2014 version of the treaty text had to be revised so as to include the EU's new Investment Court System (ICS) and the negotiations ended up taking seven years.

An article I wrote for the e-newsletter of IMS ExpertServices, When What Happens Online Ends Up in Court, discusses 10 cases where involvement in social media came back to haunt lawyers, judges, jurors or witnesses.

Those records would generally be available to a judge overseeing your case so if you repeatedly end up in court for the same thing, they're gonna know and they're gonna stop scrubbing it from your record or offerring certain options because you're clearly not learning your lesson.

Since only a small minority of all cases in which someone wields a patent against someone else end up in court (most of the time, an agreement is negotiated), the harm suffered by third parties may even outweigh the issues patent holders have to deal with.

Failing to document the full extent of your injuries, can end up hindering your case in court.

The raw data (after culling the sample cases) suggests that about 6.5 % of civil cases end up with a final decision in the NSW Supreme Court and that in Victoria, about 4 % of civil Supreme cases end up with a final decision being made.

Whether you are an employee or an employer, if you end up in court, you might have to produce the recording, even if it doesn't help your case.

Amputations and brain injuries also come high up the list of cases that end up in court.

The case, which ended up before Ontario's Court of Appeal, demonstrates the fact that employers act at their peril if they try and skirt termination entitlements by making changes to an employee's working arrangements in order to force an employee to quit.

You should be conservative in your budget (meaning don't understate the expenses and end up with a budget that doesn't realistically meet your needs) without grossly overstating the budget (which a judge would frown on should the case go to court).

It is widely believed in the legal community that this particular case could very well end up in the U.S. Supreme Court.

In short, by looking after the interests of the wealthy minority, whose cases end up fighting through the courts, we have ended up with a system that serves the majority less well, making cases harder to settle and increasing the number of cases at court in the first placIn short, by looking after the interests of the wealthy minority, whose cases end up fighting through the courts, we have ended up with a system that serves the majority less well, making cases harder to settle and increasing the number of cases at court in the first placin the first place.

Besides, they don't want to waste court time on cases that may legitimately end up in appeals.

As well, not every case that can be taken to court should end up in court.

As a result of privacy laws becoming more widespread, the number of reported privacy cases being fought in the UK courts has doubled in five years to 56 cases in the last year (year - end being May 31), up from 28 five years ago.

A recent case demonstrates how comments in an interview ended up in federal court litigation.

If your case ends up in the appellate court, you will be in good hands.

Phoenix - based accident cases that go to trial typically end up being heard in Maricopa County Superior Court or Arizona Federal District Court.

In a recent BC Supreme Court case a 96 year old father - who remained mentally competent - successfully sued his daughter who he granted a power of attorney to - to reverse a transfer of his land she made that ended up in her son's name namIn a recent BC Supreme Court case a 96 year old father - who remained mentally competent - successfully sued his daughter who he granted a power of attorney to - to reverse a transfer of his land she made that ended up in her son's name namin her son's name name.

If, as seems increasingly likely, this whole case ends up in the Supreme Court sooner than later, look for several interesting legal flash points: