Sentences with phrase «litigants often»

Here in Illinois, litigants often times fight custody «wars» over which parent will «win» the custody of the child (ren).

His lordship appreciated that litigants often felt strongly about the place where cases should be tried but disputes as to forum should not become state trials.

Even in a trial setting, litigants often go without interpreters when they are badly needed.

When faced with a surprising evidence at the commencement of a trial (or during a trial), self - represented litigants often don't know how to respond.

As American citizens who want to represent themselves in court, pro se litigants often have to cope with supercilious lawyers.

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Self - represented civil litigants often find themselves at a disadvantage in court.

I think I speak for all family lawyers when I say it is our wish to deal with represented litigants because unrepresented litigants often have the wrong view regarding lawyers in general and how lawyers are most often trying to «trick» or «bully» them.

While there are exceptions (the very few vexatious litigants and assorted serial litigants often the subject of lengthy decisions from the courts), the potential dangers most SRLs present are minimal and can be easily addressed simply through prudent risk management processes.

Premises liability litigants often find themselves up against the property owner of a business or landowner who refuses to pay for injuries resulting from an accident caused by negligent management of their property.

Experts in this field are relied upon by litigants often.

There are big moments in every case, and pro se litigants often stumble on these.

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Self - represented litigants often fear how their ignorance in court procedure will put them at a disadvantage against their represented opponents.

Litigants often appreciate the chance to discuss compensation matters in a non-adversarial environment.

Not exact matches

Just like these small startup firms that can not sue large corporations, an individual artist is often at the mercy of litigants and large corporations.

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That's not to say that the court succumbed to public opinion; however, often times, public opinion will force judges to look at a case more closely or creatively than they would with an anonymous litigant.

This is often necessary to explain the process to lay litigants and to clarify points of law and the relevance of evidence.

«We are being asked to do more work than ever to prepare for hearings, and during hearings; and we must also bear the brunt of the added difficulties presented and experienced by litigants in person, often in very stressful circumstances, and — in family cases — by the added strains on local authority budgets.»

Opponents of ghostwriting note that a litigant using a ghostwriter may unfairly benefit from the court's leniency that often comes with pro se pleadings.

Insurers are often frustrated by persistent litigants in person who have little regard for legal costs or court time and for whom the threat of an adverse costs order is nothing but an empty threat.

Too often, litigants have to wait years before receiving trial dates.

Much of the public, and often the litigants themselves, incorrectly believe that indigent people are not only legally entitled to a lawyer in any kind of case, but that getting one at no cost is simply a matter of making the request.

All too often family law litigants are passed off to inexperienced lawyers and paralegals.

Lawyers make mistakes often against pro se litigants, but their mistakes rarely cost them the case.

That knowledge is often the key to accessing and engaging effectively with the justice system; whether as citizens, litigants, witnesses, or jurors.

Self - represented litigants notice that while lawyers often criticize them for being ignorant of the rules, many lawyers in fact do not abide by the Rules of Civil Procedure themselves.

«There is growing concern about litigants without lawyers, especially for family cases, which are often complex and have profound effects on litigants and their children, and where the judgment of litigants is particularly prone to be being influenced by emotions,» says Bala.

Usually, is not the lay litigants who are difficult; the system is unduly complex and designed for lawyers and often for judges.

However, with the SHR remaining at the July 1997 level, the recovery gap becomes wider and wider as time goes by and this effectively penalises successful litigants in Hong Kong, as they are left to settle the (often significant) difference between their actual costs and their recoverable costs out of their own pocket.

As pro se litigants, we often dive into the courtroom without understanding the claims we're fighting.

Yet there remains another, often overlooked reason for IP litigants to leverage Litigation Finance — the product's positive impact on accounting outcomes.

I spent a lot of time in the court room, and because I was in federal court I didn't often see self - represented litigants.

To me, empathy means a willingness to listen and that's often what litigants care about even more than the actual result.

Often, said Laura Pichardo - Cruz, a managing attorney with Community Legal Services of Mid-Florida, that is because pro se litigants are navigating unfamiliar procedures.

Some of the other overall findings include the statistical fact that plaintiffs in English courts win their cases 75 % of the time, which is more than double the US figure and that self - represented litigants i.e. litigants without a lawyer, generally beat expectations and were often very successful in court.

The fervor with which they pursue their claim (often their life's sole focus, often misconceived, and often containing vexatious and extreme allegations against your client), and their lack of objectivity, significantly increase the costs of litigation for the defendant...» (Layperson vs. Lawyer: Dealing with Unrepresented Litigants http://www.cle.bc.ca/onlinestore/productdetails.aspx?cid=1039) Hmmm... sound familiar?

Access to justice professionals have to remain focused on ensuring that the doors to courtrooms across the country are open to all, including the growing number of self - represented litigants who often face an unfriendly judicial system.

Too often, opposing lawyers resort to complex procedural maneuvers as a means to outflank a self - represented litigant whom they know to be inexperienced in such matters.

The knowledge that self - represented litigants are — almost by definition — under - funded can often prod opposing lawyers to engage in litigation practices that would otherwise be considered as vexatious or as an abuse of the court's processes if conducted against a fellow Member of the Bar.

And though many self - represented litigants feel that the procedural portion is the more overwhelming and intimidating aspect of their file, they need to recognize that it is often hard to be truly objective about the strengths and weaknesses of one's own legal arguments.

In the last three years, I have heard innumerable stories from lawyers about judicial discourtesy towards SRLs, and also (although less often) towards represented litigants and lawyers themselves.

For instance, in their dealings with self - represented litigants, opposing lawyers can and often do take advantage of the unrepresented parties» insecurity over, and ignorance of, court rules and procedures.

Professor Macfarlane, writing about litigants who could no longer afford to retain counsel, observed that «it was not unusual for them to still owe money to their lawyers and to be paying this back in instalments» and that such litigants were «often resentful that, despite significant expenditures, they were still not at the end of their matter.»

Too often litigants, and lawyers, are under the impression that a remedy should be sought merely because it can be sought.

These women reminded me that although the law says that fairness is to be the touchstone in dealings with self - represented litigants, more often than not, the self - representing litigant is disappointed by the legal system's response to their presence in the courtroom.

According to the FRCP, litigants are required to produce electronically stored information (ESI) in the form in which it is ordinarily maintained (often referred to as «native format») on in a «reasonably usable form.»

When I was a litigant, I had often wished that the court system was simpler.

The problem is that often, litigants believe that common sense arguments are good enough.