By providing effective mediation services that help clients and keep
disputes out of the court system
Not exact matches
Nightmare on Stephenson Boulevard is an eight part series which traces the history
of a
dispute among neighbors that spiraled
out of control and came to consume members
of the New Rochelle Police Department, the City
Court of New Rochelle and the Westchester County District Attorney's office and raised serious doubts about the justice
system in the City
of New Rochelle.
In our present family justice
system,
disputes are presumptively resolved in
court, with provincial and territorial legislation acknowledging the possibility
of out -
of -
court resolution with differing, and sometimes indifferent, degrees
of emphasis.
In this way, I want to help families stay
out of the adversarial
court system and resolve their
disputes privately, in a respectful setting.
Family Law Pathways Centre gives families the ability to take back control from the broken family justice
system; by choosing not to be involved in the family
court system and by choosing to resolve
disputes out of court.
I will go on working to make sure that mediation and other forms
of out of court resolution
of disputes is given maximum priority in government and in the family justice
system of our country.
In this series
of notes on family justice, I have explored a variety
of alternatives, from shifting responsibility in family law
disputes out of the
courts and onto the families themselves, to a partially computerized
system that would reserve
court as a last resort, to an administrative model that would remove family law from the
court system altogether.
The purpose
of Small Claims
Court is to take disputes involving relatively small amounts of money out of the more formal judicial system, in the hope that the claims can be resolved more quickly and at less expense than in a full - scale court
Court is to take
disputes involving relatively small amounts
of money
out of the more formal judicial
system, in the hope that the claims can be resolved more quickly and at less expense than in a full - scale
court court case.
The duty
of preservation is a foundational concept in our legal
system that grows
out of the common law concept
of spoliation, which is more than 200 years old: if
courts exist to make determinations about
disputed facts, and if the trier
of fact must make those determinations using the available evidence, then no litigant should be allowed to gain advantage in those determinations by destroying relevant evidence before the trier
of fact can consider it.
Landlord tenant
disputes generally must be worked
out between the parties involved or, if no resolution can be worked
out, through the use
of attorneys and or the
court system.