Sentences with phrase «judicial resources at»
«Due to the ongoing shortage of judicial resources at the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta, the Court has been put in a position where it must curtail some of its services,» said Chief Justice Neil Wittman and Associate Chief Justice John Rooke in last week's announcement.
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«Here, because it is undisputed that the RFPs and contracts at issue were separate, this court should dismiss this case now rather than waste judicial resources on a trial,» Miller wrote the judge last Tuesday.
On the basis of this case study if judicial review is not available, either in law; or because F does not have the knowledge or resources to fund an application; or if there can be no challenge to the Commission figure at the liability order stage, then F will be fixed with a sealed court document which, on the above facts, represents an unchallengeable misrepresentation of the true facts.
Justice Moldaver then turns to what is described as practical considerations for law enforcement and the administration of justice, at paras. 183 - 6, suggesting that (a) the disclosure of text messages received by a complainant could be challenged by a sender who is alleged to have abused the complainant and thus exposes vulnerable complainants such as children, people with mental disabilities and the elderly (b) the increased need for warrants could strain police and judicial resources in an overburdened criminal justice system and (c) at the trial stage, these repercussions could complicate and prolong proceedings where defendants have standing to challenge searches conducted against collateral targets in large prosecutions.
This comment looks at a recent decision of the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal concerning the judicial review of a mineral royalty decision made by Saskatchewan's Minister of Energy and Resources.
«At the present time, the Superior Court of Justice is operating under conditions of scarcity of judicial resources relative to the demands generated by litigants in the system,» Brown writes in Atlas.
Ultimately, I am not sure whether these decisions will assist in enhancing access to justice for family law litigants; but, I am hopeful that as a consequence, at least some will pause to reflect for a moment or two on the problems that continue to arise as demand for judicial and court resources increasingly exceeds supply.
Increased tilting at windmills may require critical reexamination of the existing limits placed on lawyers in their role as gatekeepers — such as Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11 — to prevent a waste of judicial and client resources.
At the time, Duke said that the acquisition would advance the missions of both organizations, giving EDRM a home within a respected institution and giving Duke and its Center for Judicial Studies important new resources.
As a result, federal court judges have a stronger personal incentive to grant summary judgment than some of their state court counterparts.93 Finally, federal courts have more resources at their disposal than state courts and are therefore in a better position to invest the significant judicial resources often required to decide a motion for summary judgment.94
Nothing in the safety valve prevents judges from sentencing prisoners at or above the mandatory minimum even if they are eligible for the safety valve, but simply allows judicial discretion to ensure that prison resources are being used where they can best protect public safety, and not wasted on nonviolent, low - level drug offenders.
One thing to think about is whether the European advantage is not just in their rules, but also in the relative proportion of judicial resources they throw at a case.
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