Sentences with phrase «litigants out of the court system»

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With virtually no accountability to anyone, perhaps its time for the justice system to take a page out of the private sector and make the system operate for the clients (litigants) as opposed to the judges, court staff and lawyers who operate in it.

The hope is to have the family law cases settle at an early stage in the litigation process to get them out of the court systems and to save the litigants money.

One assessor pointed out that litigants with considerable experience manipulating the court system are uniquely well - equipped to take advantage of governing bodies» complaint mechanisms.

The duty of preservation is a foundational concept in our legal system that grows out of the common law concept of spoliation, which is more than 200 years old: if courts exist to make determinations about disputed facts, and if the trier of fact must make those determinations using the available evidence, then no litigant should be allowed to gain advantage in those determinations by destroying relevant evidence before the trier of fact can consider it.

The divisive and often emotion - charged debate is being played out against a backdrop of a legal system so short of affordable lawyers that Canadian courts are becoming clogged with self - represented litigants.