Sentences with phrase «involved litigants in person»

One particularly tragic case took place recently and involved litigants in person in private law children proceedings, who historically would have had the benefit of legally aided representation.

In another FOI request, the TUC asked for information about the number of domestic violence cases that involved litigants in person during the periods 1 January to 31 December 2011, and 1 January to December 2015.

One can understand the frustration of judges when bundles are badly prepared / late / missing, but save in the most affluent of cases the preparation of bundles will often be onerous and time - consuming particularly in cases involving litigants in person (where the respondent, if legally represented, now has to prepare the bundle if the applicant is unrepresented).

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Many litigants or people who become involved in court do not realize that in addition to lawyers, there are many other professionals who may be very helpful to their matters.

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While shedding further light on an aspect of the law seldom visited, highlighting the risks involved in filing documents in a manner which can not be tracked / traced and illustrating the types of complication with which the courts will increasingly have to deal with ever more litigants in person, the case is perhaps most striking for what it highlights about the current fault - based divorce system.

If more and more people are in the courts, cases will have to become more efficient, which could involve creating even more free resources for pro se litigants, and making it easier for individuals to represent themselves.

This is probably helpful for people involved in a court proceeding, as the bubble of litigants noted by the Macfarlane and Malcolmson and Reid reports falls right in the midst of this age group.

The courts simply can not cope with the extra work involved where the litigants are in person.

Speaking at the 20th Annual Bond Solon Expert Witness Conference, Tim Dutton QC said it would be «difficult» to set up a separate regulatory entity for experts, and problems would arise particularly where litigants - in - person are involved.

What we need is foresight and backbone by government so that it can reduce what it wastes on funding unneeded law and paralegal students, what it wastes on clogged courts hearing unprepared people squabbling over their kids, what it wastes on judges and staff involved in trials that could have been avoided, what it wastes on health care for stressed out litigants, what it loses in harmed productivity in the workplace by stressed out litigants, and so on.

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This will often involve lengthy discussions with litigants in person.

We have recently become involved to a degree with the excellent work carried out by Brad Meyer and the Help4Lips (Help for litigants in person) charity and project.

I understand from Justice Stanley Sherr, a brilliant jurist and one of the people most responsible for creating and promoting this process, that these trials are popular among the bar, as they are involved in designing the hearing and it gives their clients greater certainty as to cost and date of resolution, and among litigants, as their cases are heard much more quickly at far less cost.