Sentences with phrase «civil litigants not»

Briggs LJ characterised this as an important message to civil litigants not to ignore a serious invitation to participate in ADR.

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Each district court shall provide litigants in all civil cases with at least one alternative dispute resolution process, including, but not limited to, mediation, early neutral evaluation, minitrial, and arbitration as authorized in sections 654 through 658.

It is widely accepted that many people with serious civil justice problems do not have access to the courts and thus do not appear as un-represented litigants.

«One of the reasons I started this campaign was because I kept getting calls from litigants looking for services at a lower price, so I'm excited that we're finally going to get access to justice for people with family law problems who can't afford a lawyer,» says Yarmus, who runs Toronto - based Civil Litigations Paralegal Services.

Despite the fact that civil cases can cost people their home, health care, custody of their children or even their sense of personal safety, the majority of civil litigants who can not afford an attorney have no access to legal help.

Is the current law of civil contempt applicable to self - represented litigants or is there a different standard that applies when a litigant does not have the benefit of representation by a lawyer?

As a self - represented litigant, you've already decided not to hire a lawyer to handle your civil case.

Self - represented litigants notice that while lawyers often criticize them for being ignorant of the rules, many lawyers in fact do not abide by the Rules of Civil Procedure themselves.

With up to 70 % of civil litigants and 40 % or more of family litigants unrepresented in our courts *, there are many, many individuals (the «non-clients») who have a considerable stake in the future of the legal profession but who would not be included in a lawyers» debate about what clients want.

litigant retains not so much a particular attorney as the «firm» of NAACP and Defense Fund lawyers, which has a corporate reputation for expertness in presenting and arguing the difficult questions of law that frequently arise in civil rights litigation.

Those who regularly interact with the civil justice system — judges, court administrators, law enforcement, lawyers, litigants (individuals, businesses)-- know full well that the present paradigm is generating costs that are not constitutive to the civil justice system.

In the U.S., for example, absent a court order, handing over customer information to a civil litigant is a criminal violation of the Stored Communications Protection Act, 18 U.S.C. 2072 (a)(1), which holds that anyone «providing an electronic communication service to the public shall not knowingly divulge to any person or entity the contents of a communication while in electronic storage by that service.»

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She went on, at paras. 103 and 106, to make the point that litigants in a civil proceeding should not be able to use article 402 to circumvent the requirements of probable cause and investigative necessity.

Perhaps what I should have said is something to the effect that «at present, in most personal civil disputes, legal representation is not required nor compellable over a litigant's objections.»

Here's my previous take on the subject which appeared in The Canadian Lawyer Magazine online: «If it ain't fixed, then break it: pro se litigants, civil justice reform, and the economics of law»

In two cases decided in the last two months, the litigants have argued that return of the child to the child's country of habitual residence would subject the child to grave risk of harm not because of any specific psychological or physical harm directed at the specific child, but because of the civil unrest in the country.

While the Civil Division is not designed for pro se litigants (people representing themselves in court cases), there is no rule against it.

While the United States has not entered into any treaties for the recognition of foreign court judgments in civil actions, private civil litigants may seek to register final U.S. court decisions with foreign courts through exequatur proceedings under the law of the foreign jurisdiction.

Sue Nash, ACL chair, says: «While the results show that the Jackson reforms have not damaged civil litigants» access to justice as much as had been feared, they also emphasise that there is no room for complacency.

In a civil action involving a represented litigant where money, not liberty, was at issue, the court's award of costs in Voisey would have been entirely reasonable.

Also, litigants in civil law had an appeal as a right (i.e. judges couldn't refuse to hear the appeal) to the Supreme Court of Canada if the amount involved was high enough.

Whatever the cause and impact of unrepresented litigants on the civil justice system may be, I am of the view that the civil justice system must exist to serve members of the public — whether represented or not.

A civil litigant does not.

And while some civil litigants may be entitled to counsel in certain jurisdictions, in most of these cases, people who can not afford a lawyer will be forced to go it alone.

Waiver of a right to jury trial is not the same as waiver of the right to trial: what the agreement says is that litigants would have a civil bench trial, where the judge determines whether there was a breach.

They include an online court for money claims up to # 25,000 in value, where litigants would not be represented by lawyers; creating a new tier of case officers to do uncontentious judicial work; and for civil work with a regional connection to be carried out in the regions, where possible.

Nonetheless, it was welcome to see Minister of State for Justice and Civil Liberties, Simon Hughes, «liberate» (his word) # 1.4 m a year from George Osborne's clutches for a new initiative to support, not lawyers, but litigants in person (LIPs).

These include courtroom procedure, the judicial officer himself or herself and other participants (whether present in the courtroom or not), such as criminal defendants, civil litigants, lawyers, court staff, witnesses, juries, government agencies, the media and observers.

Giving the lead judgment, Lord Sumption acknowledged that although litigants in person are often representing themselves through no choice of their own due to the well - publicised stringent cuts in legal aid over the last eight years, whilst the Court may be able to make allowances in respect of case management decisions, a lower standard of compliance with Civil Procedure Rules or Orders of the Court could not be justified.

The Supreme Court's recent pronouncements in Hryniak correctly observe that civil litigants should not expect all matters to be resolved only after a full traditional trial.

The committee notes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure rule 56 on summary judgments notes that «Many courts take extra care with pro se litigants, advising them of the need to respond and the risk of losing by summary judgment if an adequate response is not filed.