Sentences with phrase «more unrepresented parties»

Moreover, the same data reveals that between April and December 2013, family courts across the UK were having to deal with a third more unrepresented parties, compared to same period in 2012.

As a result, proceedings with one or more unrepresented parties typically require far more court time, since part of that time will be spent educating them about procedural matters.

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The number of constituencies represented this year at the conference at which Ed Milliband's election as leader was announced was the lowest in living memory — 412 meaning more than one in three parties was unrepresented.

Sometimes when a party is unrepresented, the trial judge may need to intervene more frequently than would be the case if both parties are represented by counsel.

The work of judges outside, as well as inside the courtroom, is almost always more time - consuming in proceedings involving unrepresented parties than in ones in which everyone has a lawyer — and the difficulties judges face are compounded if one or more of the parties is also dealing with mental health or other challenges.

According to a report released in 1998 by a Boston Bar Association Task Force, in some Massachusetts counties, more than 75 percent of the cases in Probate and Family Courts have at least one party unrepresented.

He noted that there has been «a significant increase in the number of litigants in person» due in part to the retrenchment in state expenditure and the relatively high cost of legal fees, and suggested «introducing a more inquisitorial form of process in civil proceedings where both or at least one party is unrepresented.»

This does not apply where the application is made without notice, or all parties are unrepresented or there are more than four participants, irrespective of the number of actual parties.

The very nature of families, with an unrepresented third party (the child) requires the mediator to know a whole specific body of knowledge about family dynamics, divorce dynamics, child development, psychopathology, addictions, the effects of divorce on children, and more.

More than fifty percent of all cases in the Family Division have been reported as involving at least one unrepresented party.

Since two out of five of these transactions are between related parties, and those properties are not placed on the open market, we believe that «unrepresented sellers» would be a much more accurate term to describe this segment,» Stevens says.