Sentences with phrase «litigants appearing»

A common concern regarding judicial fundraising is that donors (which may include lawyers and potential litigants appearing before a judge) may contribute with the expectation that they will receive future favours in return for their generosity from the soliciting judge.

The goal of the Court Assistance Program (Queen's Bench Amicus Program) is to improve access to justice for self - represented litigants appearing in Queen» Bench Justice and Masters Chambers.

This situation has lead to a noticeable increase in the number of litigants appearing in court without counsel.

Despite significant individual and organizational efforts, including those of the Law Societies, the «crisis» only seems to be growing, highlighted perhaps most starkly by the numbers of self - represented litigants appearing in courts across the country.

And now there is the new reality of dealing directly with so many litigants appearing without counsel.

«The purpose of Justice Bridge is to match the 85 percent of litigants appearing in court every day without lawyers with the recent law school graduates who don't have clients,» said program founder Deborah Ramirez, a professor at Northeastern University School of Law.

The more campaign contributions from business interests justices receive, the more likely they are to vote for business litigants appearing before them in court.

``... There has been a plague of cases in this court and lower courts wherein litigants appear to engage the judicial assets of this province for a purpose other than to resolve legitimate legal disputes,» Scanlan said in R. v. Cummings.

[2] Self - represented litigants appear with increasing frequency in our trial courts.

Not exact matches

If the Ed Trust proposal imprudently invites lawsuits from aggrieved parents on a few specific topics, it appears quite restrained when compared to the superhighway to the courtroom concocted by the No Child Left Behind Commission, which offers an unlimited array of statutory language to an unlimited universe of potential litigants.

Add the increasing budget cutting pressure in governments, query if low - end / high - volume litigation (e.g. small claims, landlord / tenant disputes) would be better served by allowing self - represented litigants to remotely appear in court using their own computer and camera?

Research on self - represented litigants does not appear to be a priority elsewhere across the country.

It is widely accepted that many people with serious civil justice problems do not have access to the courts and thus do not appear as un-represented litigants.

An individual who appears in active litigation before the courts without the assistance for the representation by advocate (the Scottish term for barrister), and wherein the party litigant would, then, conduct the litigation by himself or herself, including the research and expressions of the law, procedures, forms, delays, and submissions.

In other jurisdictions such as England and North America, another term is used which appears to be more descriptive and that is a self - represented litigants or a litigant in person.

Finally, one practical problem which I have faced recently, is the vexed question of how to deal with a litigant in person who appears to lack capacity but refuses to see either a lawyer or a psychiatrist.

The MoJ appears to reject the view that litigants in person would not be able to deal with their own claims, pointing out that there is a significant amount of material available to assist and that many have «before the event» (BTE) insurance cover.

[18] It appears that litigants have not commonly shared Woolliams» view that the Provincial Court lacked the time and judicial independence required to render balanced and considered judgments.

Here's a great example where the clients / litigants are lawyers, and the litigation appears to spiral out of control: Bennett v. Cunningham, 2012 ONCA 540.

Litigants will be able to apply to appear in front of a panel of senior counsel, former Supreme Court law clerks, and professors of law who will critique their presentation and advocacy skills.

The NSRLP was an intervenor in Pintea v. Johns, a case before the Supreme Court of Canada in April where the court determined a self - represented litigant was not in contempt of court for failing to appear at conferences after the court sent notices to his old address.

While we have mentioned situations where important provisions have been dropped into miscellaneous statutes, the NYT, Volokh and the ZDNet blog is reporting a quite extraordinary case where the litigants and the US Supreme Court appear to have completely overlooked a relevant statutory provision1, for a couple of reasons:

What is already clear is that LASPO changes have led to a substantial increase in the number of litigants who are having to appear in person before the courts.

It appears that there is some judicial sympathy for litigants unable to prove their cases owing to the operation of the «without prejudice» rule, although this appears confined to the discrimination / victimisation field.

... many [self - represented litigants] sought some type of «unbundled» legal services from legal counsel; for example, assistance with document review, writing a letter, or appearing in court.

Here's my previous take on the subject which appeared in The Canadian Lawyer Magazine online: «If it ain't fixed, then break it: pro se litigants, civil justice reform, and the economics of law»

«To truly increase access to justice, one must also fund legal aid to ensure that the litigants who appear before these judges can be represented by lawyers.»

Many judges appear biased against self - represented (pro se) litigants and this judge had worked for the city.

As amicus, Mark appears on motions involving self represented litigants, in order to assist the court by raising potential issues that the self - represented litigant may not be aware of, or may have overlooked.

However, according to Mr. Moskowitz, they see firsthand the effects of the civil legal aid shortage and understand the disadvantages faced by pro se litigants who appear in court unrepresented.

From my perspective it appears litigants need not rely on the ICBC Driving Guide to establish the right of way analysis.

That risk is especially pronounced because most donors are lawyers and litigants who may appear before the judge they are supporting.

(1) The Brennan Center posted a good summary of the case and links to all of the briefs, including the ACLU's amicus brief (supporting judges who plan to mass - solicit money directly from anyone, including the lawyers and litigants who will appear before those judges) and the ABA's amicus brief (supporting the Canon prohibiting such solicitation, whether in person or in writing).

Self - represented litigants express frustration at the inconsistency and inefficiency produced by appearing before a series of different judges.

the Queen's Bench Amicus Project brings volunteer lawyers into Queen's Bench Justice and Masters Chambers to assist self - represented litigants who are set to appear that day.

In short, if a claim comes to the court's attention that «appears on its face to be frivolous, vexatious or otherwise an abuse of process», a notice can be sent to the litigant requiring him or her to provide a written response explaining why the claim should be allowed to proceed.

While the Terry majority further limits a family court litigant's remedies to appeal a temporary order, it appears Pleicones would have granted even greater appeal remedies from such orders:

Cuts to legal aid provision have led to an increasing number of people appearing as litigants in person, especially in the family courts and most particularly in divorce cases.

In the courtrooms in which they preside, they wield what must appear to lawyers and litigants alike as virtually unbridled power.

[100] As a result, the fears remain that judges who raise money may either appear beholden to those from whom funds were solicited or that they may not appear to be impartial if donors end up becoming litigants before them.

The old saying that hard cases make bad law is one is not always true is a recent case in the Privy Council demonstrates in a laudable effort to do justice to a litigant in person the Privy Council (Lords Mance and Neuberger and Sir Jonathan Parker) appear to have extended the application of res ipsa loquitor.

The old saying that hard cases make bad law is one is not always true is a recent case in the Privy Council demonstrates in a laudable effort to do justice to a litigant in person the Privy Council (Lords Mance and Neuberger and Sir Jonathan Parker) appear to have extended the application of res...

Judge Gao mentions that the SPC is looking at the international commercial courts in several jurisdictions, including Dubai and Singapore (as mentioned in the earlier blogpost), but also Abu Dhabi, London's Commercial Court (it appears that someone at the SPC has read this Financial Times article on foreign litigants there), and notes that the Netherlands, Germany, and Belgium are all establishing international commercial courts that use English.

We are delighted to announce that it appears at least four Ontario law schools — Windsor, Ottawa, Osgoode and Queen's — will participate October 4th in Self - Represented Litigants Awareness Day.

In Metro Detroit alone, six courts have adopted Matterhorn to resolve several different types of cases online, including failure - to - pay and failure - to appear - warrants for qualifying litigants.

London appears increasingly popular as a centre for international litigation, particularly among litigants from the former Soviet Republic.

Judges, on the other hand, may have a partial view of the public interest which may be skewed by the apparent plight of the potentially homeless litigants who appear before them.

299 counsel, agents and self - represented litigants who had appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada in 2006 were invited to participate in an online survey.

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There are two other areas, much frequented by litigants in person, where the new forms and procedures appear to work well.