Sentences with phrase «litigant at a court hearing»

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In our view, the principle that a litigant should be able to see and hear all the evidence which is seen and heard by the court determining his case is so fundamental, so embedded in the common law, that, in the absence of parliamentary authority, no judge should override it, at any rate in relation to an ordinary civil claim, unless (perhaps) all parties to the claim agree otherwise.

«Imagine a court hearing where a witness enters the courtroom and one of the litigants in the case approaches the witness and says «This doesn't affect your testimony at all, but here's $ 800,000 for you if this case happens to go my way.»

Alan Macek, an intellectual property lawyer at Dimock Stratton LLP, points out that the federal courts also hear immigration and citizenship cases where the tariff - based system offers predictable costs for individual litigants and improves access to justice.

Indeed, even the respondent, as well as some of the other provinces, conceded that at some hypothetical level, hearing fees would be so high as to prevent superior courts from having any litigants before them, thus infringing this core jurisdiction, although they argued that the fee regime at issue was not problematic in this way.