Sentences with phrase «judicial settlement conferences»

Many participate in judicial settlement conferences where a judge attempts to guide the parties towards a cooperative resolution.

Discovery fishing expeditions are carefully weeded out at pre-trial appearances and judicial settlement conferences are highly recommended.

[19] Here, the context was that counsel for the defendants had delivered an offer to settle on January 21, 2014; the parties had attended a Judicial Settlement Conference on January 29, 2014, and the defendants had delivered an additional offer to settle on January 30, 2014.

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The purpose of the Judicial Case Conference is to try to narrow the issues between the parties and reach consensus if possible and in some cases, reach an overall settlement of the case.

On Tuesday, he presented «Platform Procedure: Using Technology to Facilitate (Efficient) Civil Settlement» at the Conference on Empirical Legal Studies in Asia (CELSA) 2017 & 4th Empirical Studies of Judicial Systems International Conference Symposium «Do Courts Rule Efficiently?

See Rule 7 (b)(3), ADR (authorizing a mediator to «define and describe» «[t] he inadmissibility of conduct and statements as evidence in any arbitral, judicial or other proceeding»); Rule 8 (a), ADR («Communications during a mediation settlement conference shall be confidential.»)

For example, mandatory court - based mediation rules, judicial dispute resolution initiatives, case management regimes, pre-trial conferences, and cost - based settlement incentives have all become central pillars of the modern civil justice system and its reform.

Similar to mediation, the Judicial Hosted Settlement Conference, is designed to help both parties come to a mutual agreement without needing to proceed to litigation (court).