Sentences with phrase «most litigants in persons»

Piecemeal decision - making on a case - by - case basis and in terms not accessible to most litigants in persons is surely not the way to administer a family — or any — system of justice.

«After 10 years since the new rules came in we can say confidently that most litigants in person have benefited enormously from the reforms,» Thompson adds.

Not exact matches

We are located in Midtown just south of Overton Square in Memphis, Tennessee, but we have helped injured persons and other litigants throughout most of West Tennessee, including Shelby, Tipton, Fayette, Lauderdale, Haywood, and Madison Counties.

After explaining the difficulties that poor persons have to obtain legal services, the report states that in Arkansas, self - represented litigants are, for the most part «left on their own and flounder.»

And in most cases, if the suit flies under the radar, people forget about it and the litigants pick up the pieces and move on.

While shedding further light on an aspect of the law seldom visited, highlighting the risks involved in filing documents in a manner which can not be tracked / traced and illustrating the types of complication with which the courts will increasingly have to deal with ever more litigants in person, the case is perhaps most striking for what it highlights about the current fault - based divorce system.

Nearly one quarter of the 85 leading family lawyers taking part in the survey said their most pressing issue was litigants in person, which are increasingly common due to cuts in legal aid and public funding for advice centres.

Actually, two of the most striking things about the current situation seem to me (by comparison with recent history) the convergence of interest by people and institutions traditionally separate within jurisdictions (e.g. inhabiting the worlds of PLE, legal aid, self represented litigants) and the degree of international linking helped by HiiL's entrepreneurialism (you can go to few countries in the world and not find that they have been there the week before) but also exampled by links the licensing of material from the Justice Education Society of British Columbia by California courts.

One can understand the frustration of judges when bundles are badly prepared / late / missing, but save in the most affluent of cases the preparation of bundles will often be onerous and time - consuming particularly in cases involving litigants in person (where the respondent, if legally represented, now has to prepare the bundle if the applicant is unrepresented).

It recognized that public interest litigants are crucial to realizing the Charter's democratic potential because they can address the systemic impacts of the law on the most vulnerable people in a way that isn't possible in individual litigation.

LexisNexis, the international legal technology company and publisher, provided one of the most interesting contributions to the Civil Justice Council's December forum in London from its committee on litigants in person.

And while some civil litigants may be entitled to counsel in certain jurisdictions, in most of these cases, people who can not afford a lawyer will be forced to go it alone.

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.

Sir Robert Megarry, a noted English judge, once observed that the most important person in the court room with respect to the issue of perception is «the litigant who is going to lose.»

It is in my view the combination of those two features, namely an application process which is in accessible to most LIPs [litigants in person] and the absence of an economic business model sufficient to encourage lawyers to apply on their behalf, which makes the ECF scheme inherently defective and therefore unfair.....

I understand from Justice Stanley Sherr, a brilliant jurist and one of the people most responsible for creating and promoting this process, that these trials are popular among the bar, as they are involved in designing the hearing and it gives their clients greater certainty as to cost and date of resolution, and among litigants, as their cases are heard much more quickly at far less cost.

Ten years on it is time to assess his achievements from the point of view of the intended beneficiaries, the litigants, most of them litigants in person.