Sentences with phrase «more litigants»

However, we must be careful not to think about access to justice as simply a question of how to provide more litigants with legal representation in the courts.

On the other hand, that might have the desirable result of making more litigants look more closely, at an earlier stage, at the merits of the claims.

Whether this development results in more litigants opting for mediation, shifts the pressure onto the trial list or results in more resources, remains to be seen.

The gears of the court machine are often impacted as more litigants come to court without representation, struggling to properly navigate the legal process.

Its aim is to inform policies, programs and rules that will allow more litigants to stay in the justice system until their claims are resolved.

Access to justice is not simply a question of how to provide more litigants with legal representation in the courts, St. Catharines family lawyer and mediator Sharon Silbert writes in Lawyers Weekly.

Hearings involving one or more litigants without counsel usually take longer to conclude because of litigants» difficulties with the rules of court, the rules of evidence and the legislation governing their application.

Of course, the portal does not currently deal with small claims and so if the limit is increased to # 5,000 and whiplash claims are outlawed altogether, there will be fewer cases settling through the portal and possibly more litigants in person pursuing their own claims, although there may just be fewer claims.

In a surprisingly busy year for divorce procedure, a new practice direction, FPR 2010, PD 36D, was issued setting out a divorce pilot scheme for certain applications to be filed via an online process, and a new more litigant - friendly divorce petition was introduced.

But I would hope, (and it can only be hope since my crystal ball is not working) that Siaro and other providers seeking to positively disrupt existing practices can tap into the latent legal market and encourage more litigants into obtaining legal advice.

More litigants feel the brunt of administrative law than any kind of law.

As more litigants proceed without legal representation, we work to ensure that that all families have meaningful access to the family justice system.

Jackson LJ does not contemplate such a possibility and it would certainly upset the legal profession, particularly the district judges who would have to deal with even more litigants in person than at present.

Requiring more litigants to the prevailing party's legal fees and costs when a lawsuit alleging infringement is not objectively reasonable in law and fact; and

Access to justice is not simply a question of how to provide more litigants with legal representation in the courts, St. Catharines family lawyer and mediator Sharon Silbert... Read more

However, he says the increase in the ceiling of small claims from # 5,000 to # 10,000 on 1 April will help as more litigants in person will be able to use the «more relaxed» small claims track «without the threat of being financially ruined by a heavy costs order if they lose».

The working group will need to consider whether such settlements should be recorded as memoranda of understanding, written agreements or consent orders, and who should be responsible for preparing the record, particularly when one or more litigants are self - represented.

advancements in information technology are encouraging more and more litigants to become actively involved in the litigation process, even if they do not ultimately seek to represent themselves before the

Newsflash: Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin has written to Denice congratulating her on her new book and commenting that «The more litigants understand about the trial process, the closer we come to access to justice».

Speaking to Legal Action Group director Steve Hynes, Lord Bach says «cuts to social welfare law were never justified and the cuts in family law have led to more litigants in person clogging the courts system and adding to costs.»

The idea behind the Rule change was to make summary judgment accessible in more cases and thus open up the cheaper, and more expedient resolution to more litigants.

advancements in information technology are encouraging more and more litigants to become actively involved in the litigation process, even if they do not ultimately seek to represent themselves before the court.

More mediating capacity, more cases moved from the High Court to the county court, and more litigants in person resulting from the increase in the small claims limit.

For this reason alone, more and more litigants are looking for ways to resolve their cases without resorting to the court system.