Sentences with phrase «civil jury system»

Allowing lawyers to challenge jurors for bias could help preserve the civil jury system in the long run, says Ottawa personal injury lawyer Najma Rashid.

This report shows how the media are producing a deeply skewed and distorted understanding of our civil jury system.

Many legislatures have been pressured to undermine the civil jury system by restricting access to the courts and limiting juries» power and authority.

For more great stuff, including why our judges love the civil jury system, get the Center for Justice & Democracy's new BRIEFING BOOK, TORT LITIGATION AND JURIES: BY THE NUMBERS.

For those of you who don't know him, he's an outspoken partner at the large corporate defense firm, Covington & Burling, who has made a career of attacking corporate regulations and the civil jury system.

Not exact matches

Declaring that the «grand jury system is broken» in «dealing with police... questions of criminality and killings» Sharpton urged federal government action akin to the mid-20th century actions on enforcing civil rights.

They tell us that making sure corporations are held accountable when their actions harm consumers, employees, or communities (70 %) should be a much higher priority for the civil justice system than limiting the amount of compensation that juries can award for pain and suffering.»

From colonial days until now, this system has continued to develop to allow individuals and classes of persons who have been harmed by wrongdoing or negligence (i.e. «torts») to seek monetary compensation through a civil jury trial.

The Lilly Ledbetter Act, which related to the civil justice system if not the civil jury, provides some hope for those of us championing this fight, but it will be an uphill slog.

a broad range of issues relating to the structure of the government and to civil rights and civil liberties — ranging from racial justice to federalism from the right to privacy to the separation of powers from the right to vote to the role of juries — have a unique impact and import in the context of the criminal justice system.

Being a personal injury lawyer is no easy job; you need to believe in your client, have faith in the justice system, and, very importantly, learn and develop the skills necessary to convince a judge and jury that the clients we represent are not overreaching or crying out for mere sympathy, but instead are persons deserving of civil justice.

It's a shame because as we also noted in our letter to Safer, «In the 1980s, 60 Minutes engaged in some ground - breaking journalism with correspondent Ed Bradley and producer David Gelber that exposed myths about juries and the civil justice system, which were then and continue to be perpetuated by the insurance industry, drug companies, tobacco companies, medical lobbies and other special interests seeking to limit their liability from lawsuits.»

The civil jury trial is all but extinct outside the United States; they have little use for our adversarial system.

It is also rare for Canadians to employ a jury system in the courts during a civil matter.

An attempt to bar insurance - paying drivers from civil juries would kill the system as we know it, says Toronto personal injury lawyer Jessica B. Mahabir.

2 For an extensive list of studies demonstrating the competence of juries, see, e.g., Testimony of Neil Vidmar, Russell M. Robinson, II Professor of Law, Duke Law School before The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, «Hearing on Medical Liability: New Ideas for Making the System Work Better for Patients,» June 22, 2006 at 10 («The overwhelming number of the judges gave the civil jury high marks for competence, diligence, and seriousness, even in complex cases... Systematic studies of jury responses to experts lead to the conclusion that jurors do not automatically defer to experts and that jurors have a basic understanding of the evidence in malpractice and other cases.

There has been a lot of talk in the past several months about abolishing the jury system for civil cases; and if not for all civil cases, at least for motor vehicle crash cases.

The Alberta Civil Trial Lawyers Association was founded in the Spring of 1986 as a non-profit society dedicated to the objectives of advancing the science of jurisprudence, training in all fields and phases of advocacy, upholding the honour and dignity of the profession of law, encouraging brotherhood and sisterhood among the members of the bar, upholding and improving the adversary system and trial by jury, and promoting the administration of justice and the public good.

An attempt to bar drivers who pay insurance from serving on civil juries would revolutionize the system as we know it, Ottawa personal injury lawyer Howard Yegendorf tells AdvocateDaily.com.

There is a well - established procedure in the federal courts of the United States, and similar structures in all state systems I'm familiar with, that allows the judge to overrule a civil jury if it finds that no reasonable jury could have reached the verdict they did.

And the jury gave the usual verdict... [9]... While jury trials in civil cases seem to exist in Ontario solely to keep damages awards low in the interest of insurance companies, rather than to facilitate injured parties being judged by their peers, the fact is that the jury system is still the law of the land....

Look at the first sentence in para. 9 of the reasons: «While jury trials in civil cases seem to exist in Ontario solely to keep damages awards low in the interest of insurance companies, rather than to facilitate injured parties being judged by their peers, the fact is that the jury system is still the law of the land.»

You criticize the Liebeck case and suggest it was non-meritorious but ignore the fact that the foundation of our civil justice system, a jury of our peers, found the case meritorious and determined that McDonald's was partly liable for her injuries.

In addition, this course will highlight a number of specialized topics including the role of juries in deciding civil disputes, the ethical responsibilities of the litigation attorney, and the development of alternative dispute resolution systems.

The discriminatory practices of judges, attorneys and juries have been documented as contributing to the disproportionate representation of African - Americans in the justice system (e.g. Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, 2000).