Sentences with phrase «cross examination of witnesses»

The Doyle Inn would like to invite you to a training focusing on the successful cross examination of witnesses at trial in civil cases.

In particular, I was very concerned about the strategies lawyers have in examination and cross examination of witnesses.

The leader of the prosecution defence, Tayo Olukotun, lamented that the defence counsel's cross examination of the witnesses was ambiguous as it went outside the statement made by Ennah and was admitted by the court as exhibit.

When Whitney got back, McGahay said he wanted to stage courtroom - type proceedings to rule on the signatures, including the cross examination of witnesses, a procedure that is beyond the scope of the board, she said, and something that is, in fact, illegal.

He argued that owing to the nature of his application, he could not commence cross examination of the witness until the legal issues raised were determined.

When one environmental public interest group called a university professor to speak in opposition to the proposals based on his belief that development of this nature is inimical to Aboriginal culture, cross examination of this witness by a representative of the Nisichawayasihk Cree illustrated the professor's lack of specific knowledge of the Nisichawayasihk Cree, their culture and their physical environment.20 In the result, his testimony was given little or no weight by the Commission in its report.

I am not sure how many times I have been limited in my cross examination of a witness because the judge indicates that I have «made my point» but I would suspect it happens at least once in every trial.

That evidence is sometimes obtained through the cross examination of a witness or it may come to the attention of a party through other sources.

Not exact matches

At the resumed trial of Dasuki on charges of unlawful possession of firearms, the government witness, Mr. Samuel Ogbu who was under cross examination confirmed no incriminating items was found in the guest house.

She said Director of Election Operations Anna Svizzero expressed dismay at the delay and confirmed that the board could not receive evidence, hear witnesses and / or allow for their cross examination.

NEW YORK CITY — Prosecutors in the corruption trial of Joseph Percoco were expected lobbyist Todd Howe to testify on Thursday, but the cross examination of other witnesses means Howe will not testify until next week.

Under cross examination by defence counsels, Obinna Okereke and Nelson Imoh, the witness said he did not know the purpose of the payment.

Silver's defense attorneys continued their cross examination of Dr. Robert Taub, the prosecution's star witness in a bribery scheme allegedly orchestrated by Silver.

Defence counsel on Tuesday declined cross examination of a prosecution witness in the ongoing trial of Femi Fani - Kayode facing charges of money laundering before a Federal High Court, Lagos.

The court on April 25 adjourned the matter for cross examination after the testimony of the first prosecution witness, Mr. Victor Ehiabhi.

After listening to both counsel, Justice John Tsoho adjourned the matter until July 7 for the cross examination of the first prosecution witness and continuation of trial.

On cross examination, plaintiffs» attorney Marcellus McRae tried to chip away at the heft of Fraisse's testimony by having the witness concede that the districts he led were relatively small with few schools and had student populations that were largely white, with much smaller percentages of blacks and African Americans.

While they term it a review — it is written, and there is no trial, cross examination, subpoena of witnesses or burden of proof as required by Mansour v. King.

The book covers the essential skills a lawyer needs to be effective as a cross-examiner and then illustrates those lessons with annotated transcripts from actual trials, including Bailey's cross of the coroner in the Sam Sheppard case and Roy Black's examination of the key witness in the William Kennedy Smith trial.

Significant expenses occur in areas like discovery, preparation of witness statements and cross examination at hearing.

It is important to allow time to simply think through the case be it considering the credibility of a particular witness, rehearsing lines of cross examination or perhaps even polishing off arguments for a speech.

Practically speaking, the provisions involve the cross examination of certain witnesses taking place outside of the court room, prior to the beginning of trial.

Among the most significant, are changes to police bail and confirmation that pre-recorded cross examination of vulnerable witnesses will be rolled out across the country.

By accepting the certificate of analysis into evidence without first allowing defense voir dire / cross examination questioning of the machine operator accepts that attestation clause as reliable without allowing the defendant not only to challenge not only whether the witness is reliable, credible and with sufficient recall, but also to challenge whether the witness properly and according to DFS procedure operated this claimed sophisticated piece of machinery that thusly requires a commensurate level of sophistication in understanding the machinery and using it.

Many of the points we wished to establish were done through cross examination of the other side's witnesses and my client's testimony took less than 20 minutes.

Consequently, for a judge not to allow defense voir dire / cross examination questioning of a prosecution witness before a damning exhibit is allowed into evidence, presents not only a Due Process issue but also a possible perception of pro-prosecutorial bias of the judge, whether or not that bias exists, at least in the eyes of laypeople watching the trial, when a critical element of a sufficiently functioning judicial system is for the public to perceive judges as following their oaths of office.

Consequently, trial judges have nothing to lose and often much to gain by permitting at least brief voir dire / cross examination of prosecution witnesses before a damning exhibit is offered into evidence, and also need to think twice before allowing inadmissible hearsay into evidence to see if the prosecutor «ties together» the evidence to make it no longer inadmissible hearsay.

By directing answers to the decision maker and seeking their assistance the witness can carry out their role despite the techniques of cross examination.

Often, what develops in cross examination is that the witness has little concept that verifying interrogatory answers was a serious undertaking — and that lack of understanding can be used to both undermine that witness» credibility and undermine the attorney's fee claim (I believe it is relevant to a party's fee claim if that party's attorney had the party executing documents the party does not understand).

Presentation and cross examination of expert witnesses in highly specialized fields of expertise

Consequently, when a client urges the necessity of my destroying an opposing witness on cross examination, I respond that the backlash from destroying the opposing witness can be much more harmful than my telling the defense story through cross examination, bringing out important evidentiary points, and defanging the opposing witness's testimony.

It seems undeniable that in a trial, if one of the lawyers spends 80 or 100 percent of his or her cross - and direct - examination time arguing his or her case through the window of the witnesses on the stand and the opposing attorney using traditional methods gives up the opportunity to argue the case during direct examination (and as a result is able to argue his or her case through the window of the witnesses on the stand only 50 percent or less of the time), the first lawyer will have the advantage.

Trial judges have nothing to lose and often much to gain by permitting at least brief voir dire / cross examination of prosecution witnesses before a damning exhibit is offered into evidence.

After vigorous cross examination of the petitioner and his witnesses and a number of objections upheld by the Court, our client was able to avoid having an injunction entered against him.

Following the direct examination of a witness, cross examination is the follow - up questioning («examination»).

Jan instructs the Fall Trial Advocacy Class, examining topics related to all aspects of the trial process, including openings, direct examinations, cross examinations, expert witnesses, and summations.

The claim was withdrawn part way through the cross examination of the Claimant's witnesses.

From the perspective of trial advocacy and forensic challenges, a keenly contested arbitration concerning the construction of three large leachate tanks constructed for a large uranium and gold mining facility posed particular challenges in cross examination of the large number of witnesses of 30 days in the conduct of cross-examination of experts giving concurrent evidence in five disciplines over seven consecutive days.

The purpose of cross ‑ examination is to allow you to question the witness about testimony you disagree with and to allow you to possibly have the witness give some testimony that would support your case.

Advances have been made in the quality of communication via videoconferencing, which has all but eliminated the problems often associated with videoconferencing in the early days of its use, which involved time delays in the transmission and which in turn frequently resulted in counsel and witnesses talking over each other and which made for a less than satisfactory method of conducting both direct or cross examination.

Consults with other attorneys regarding preparation for depositions of state expert witnesses and cross examination for trial.

R v T: acquittal of Defendant of good character following cross examination of three prosecution witnesses.

Buddy lectures extensively and has published a number of articles and books dealing with trial advocacy, litigation strategy, expert witness cross examination and complex medical issues concerning wrongfully injured victims and their rights.

We need to spend hours and days and weeks doing this witness preparation and cover all bases of evidence and all contingencies for trial developments and cross examination.

The students conducted direct and cross examination of four witnesses and upon their recommendation, the judge conducted a watermeier hearing with the minor which lasted over an hour, after which, the judge granted the father sole custody of the minor.

Mr. Stern repeatedly attacked the witness's credibility during three days of cross examination.

He has advocated for claimants with complex psychiatric and / or physical disabilities, providing comprehensive preparation for hearings with claimants, analysis & interpretation of medical & psychiatric records, as well as cross examination of medical & vocational witnesses.

I trust you will find this method of cross examination both easy to employ and effective to use with all sorts of witnesses.

A meeting between the officer and the defense attorney may well reveal potential defenses and potential cross examination of the officer or other witnesses at trial.

Significant expenses occur in ar - eas like discovery, preparation of witness statements and cross examination at hearing.