Sentences with phrase «narrow judicial discretion»

If you really want to stamp out unnecessary litigation, amend the Rules to allow for even higher costs, closer to full indemnity, and narrow judicial discretion around costs to impose mandatory costs for unreasonable positions, inflammatory conduct, and frivolous and vexatious behaviour.

In the late 1970s California and several other states adopted a form of statutory guidelines, narrowing judicial discretion and, in most of these states, replacing broad parole - release discretion with good - time credits and a fixed period of post-prison supervision.

Not exact matches

To maximize predictability and consistency, Parliament provided a definition of income that is clear and unambiguous and that significantly narrowed the scope of judicial discretion.