Sentences with phrase «civil proceedings going»

Not exact matches

Imagine that members of the 8th National Assembly had announced during the recent general election campaigns exactly how they were going to tear up section 308 of the 1999 Constitution (which protects the president, vice president, governors and their deputies against civil and criminal proceedings while they are in office) to grant their leaders immunity from prosecution for corruption and money laundering.

Low - income families must fight these battles on their own because — despite the fact that civil cases can result in people going to jail, or losing their home, health care, custody of their children or sense of safety — there is no right to an attorney in civil legal proceedings as there is for criminal defendants.

Court - appointed interpreters are employed to ensure that defendants — in both criminal and civil proceedings — understand what is going on.

Litigants in person: somewhere in the background of our fractured civil justice system a debate is going on about the position of litigants in person in civil proceedings (including family proceedings).

Proceedings about the same child support calculation (or assessment) could then go to the same county court as civil proceedings under s 36, and as family proceedings under s 111A on appeal.

Obviously, if the complainant or another important Crown witness was discredited, or other significant problems with the Crown's case emerged during the course of the criminal proceedings that contributed to the acquittal, then as a practical matter, the acquittal is going to impact a later civil proceeding.

Date — Bah JSC in this case stated that: «what is intended to be covered by Order 81 are irregularities, short of situations of want of jurisdiction or infringements of statutes other than the High Court Rules... thus, whilst Order 81 rule 1 treats non compliance with the Rules as not nullifying the non - complying proceedings, the rule DOES NOT apply to non — compliance which is so fundamental as to go to Jurisdiction, or which is in breach of a Statute other than the civil procedure rules; breach of the Constitution; or the breach of the rules of natural justice.»

All I can say is based upon past experience, I don't think investors can rely upon law enforcement in this country acting any time soon and so we're going to have to do whatever we can in civil proceedings to come to some kind of remedy.»

301 («In all civil actions and proceedings... a presumption imposes on the party against whom it is directed the burden of going forward with evidence to rebut or meet the presumption, but does not shift to such party the burden of proof in the sense of risk of nonpersuasion.»)