Sentences with phrase «civil procedure more»

This is a question of civil procedure more so than law.

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The Workforce Diversity Taskforce will be tasked with evaluating the notification and posting procedures for exams and hiring to ensure they are clear to all audiences, suggesting locations for posting announcements that would encourage broader participation, and helping to more broadly promote awareness for the wide variety of employment opportunities in county and local government as well as other civil divisions such as local school, fire, and library districts.

Exempt from cumbersome state procurement procedures, civil - service rules and pay scales, they can more readily attract talent and customize (and economize on) their purchases and outlays.

One of the more radical reforms was the creation of the Civil Procedure Rule Committee which transferred the power to amend civil procedure from Parliament to a committee of judicial and lay expCivil Procedure Rule Committee which transferred the power to amend civil procedure from Parliament to a committee of judicial and lay expcivil procedure from Parliament to a committee of judicial and lay experts.

Proposed sanctions being considered for inclusion in ACTA include stronger criminal enforcement procedures; border measures and more effective civil enforcement.

Civil procedure is often the hardest class in law school, but Yale Law School thinks students will learn more by doing.

The Walrus has an article by Alex Hutchinson, «The People's Court, A case for universal legal care,» that looks at some of the changes that have happened to legal aid over the last decade and a few of the changes to civil procedure expected in British Columbia... [more]

The Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 was favored by businesses likely to be defendants in future class action lawsuits (such as manufacturers), because state civil procedure law in some U.S. states such as California, is more favorable to class action plaintiffs than federal civil procedure laws related to class actions.

The main objectives of Bill 28, An Act to establish the new Code of Civil Procedure (which is explained in my previous post here), are to modernize court procedures and processes, improve public confidence in the court system and make access to justice more efficient, simpler, faster and less costly.

An amendment to the Civil Procedure Rules will introduce more extensive cost management procedures to multi-track cases from April 2013 (commercial court cases are excluded).

At my law school, in addition to the common first year subjects — torts, property, contracts, criminal law, legal systems and judicial process and legal writing — we were required to take administrative law, evidence, civil procedure, insurance, constitutional law (division of powers, that is — the Charter was not yet... [more]

In what it says is an industry first for a legal research platform, LexisNexis today is launching a multimedia civil procedure practice guide within Lexis Advance that includes not only text but also a series of more than 150 short videos embedded within the content.

# 6: e-Discovery Support: Canadian law firms are starting to get more experience with e-discovery with the increased adoption of new rules of civil procedure on handling large volumes of electronic discovery.

Just when most magistrates» legal advisers had cracked the question of what type of proceedings are child support proceedings in their court (they are not «family proceedings» because they are not listed in MCA 1980 s 65 (1) among those statutes which do give rise to «family proceedings»); just when the more alert had resolved that they are therefore civil proceedings, heard in open court and by the procedure set out in MCA 1980, s 53 and under the appropriate non-family procedural rules; along comes s 111A (5).

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Containing an enviable and constantly growing collection of authoritative analytical commentary texts, including the most trusted UK titles covering various practice areas such as civil procedure, company law, criminal law, intellectual property, ADR and more:

The laws relating to this procedure are set out in the Civil Enforcement Act, and a landlord should look at this Act for more details.

Employers can also expect to be dealing with more claims through the simplified procedures stream in the civil courts, as opposed to the Human Rights Tribunal — a development which should see claims resolved more quickly.

does not accept the premise that closed material procedures (CMPs) should be more widely available in civil proceedings... does not accept that the increased use and training of Special Advocates can address the inherent disadvantages to claimants that the increased use of CMPs would inevitably involve.»

As of July 1, 2014, the Ontario Rules of Civil Procedure have been amended to add (among some other more minor changes) a new procedure for dealing with vexatious litigants.

Greene added that the constant revolution in civil justice for 20 years — from the small claims limit, costs budgeting, fixed costs, to changes in practice and procedure, needed to be taken more slowly when we have the prospect of the added revolution of Brexit.

All the more interesting is the Bank should have made a motion for the production of information (here a mortgage discharge statement) under Ontario's civil procedure rules as opposed to simply seeking production with no legal basis to do so.

They conduct settlement conferences in simplified procedure actions, they handle the lion's share of procedural motions and, I expect, most members of the civil litigation bar have more contact with the Masters, and their Registrars, than with judges.