Sentences with phrase «number of litigants in person»

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.»

«At a time when the number of litigants in person is rising inexorably, and trends such as unbundling are beginning to take hold, the ability for clients to go directly to a costs lawyer could prove vital in helping them challenge and control their costs liability.»

There had been a rise in the number of litigants in person as a result of the cuts.

And the existence of a body of standardised and judicially approved forms of order will go a long way to assisting judges and others — mediators for example — faced with the increasing number of litigants in person who can not be expected to draft their own orders.»

The JSC has asked for evidence on a number of different questions including the impact of the domestic violence gateway, the cuts to scope and the impact on the number of litigants in person.

A recent report illustrates the pressures facing the growing number of litigants in person, says Jon Robins

Not so the government, which has serious intentions to double it to # 10,000, thereby provoking a significant increase in the number of litigants in person.

Major changes to the structure of personal injury litigation as proposed including a substantial increase in the number of Litigants in Person (LiPs) make no sense at the best of times but particularly where to do so will undermine the emerging online court.

Consequently, there has been an increase in the number of litigants in person (LiPs) in the already overloaded family courts.

In Wales the number of litigants in person doubled between 2012/13 and 2013/14.

The family courts themselves are also struggling to cope with the increasing number of litigants in person.

LAG, along with many campaigners, argues that the lack of availability of early advice in family cases is causing the reduction in take - up of mediation and feeding the rise of the numbers of litigants in person before the family courts.

It attributes the lack of candidates to low judicial morale, caused by an increased workload, dissatisfaction with the tax treatment of judicial pensions, increased numbers of litigants in person and a sense of not being valued by the government.

· The increasing numbers of litigants in person in the family courts was reported by the Guardian.

The judiciary, the report noted, has been beset by an increased workload, dissatisfaction with the tax treatment of judicial pensions, increased numbers of litigants in person and a sense of not being valued by the government.

Not exact matches

In another FOI request, the TUC asked for information about the number of domestic violence cases that involved litigants in person during the periods 1 January to 31 December 2011, and 1 January to December 201In another FOI request, the TUC asked for information about the number of domestic violence cases that involved litigants in person during the periods 1 January to 31 December 2011, and 1 January to December 201in person during the periods 1 January to 31 December 2011, and 1 January to December 2015.

But Timothy Dutton QC of Fountain Court Chambers warned the Bond Solon expert witness conference that the soaring number of actions brought by litigants in person could put current professional safeguards at risk.

Increasing numbers of litigants - in - person are resulting in court staff filling the vacuum.

The experts also took a dim view of litigants in person, whose numbers are widely expected to soar as the impact of legal aid cuts and other funding shortages is felt.

These actions go hand - in - hand with the underlying theme in the recent reforms to the family justice system (in particular the Child Arrangements Programme) of making information more accessible to litigants in person — this seems to be an acceptance of the reality that the family justice system has irreversibly changed and large numbers of LiPs are now the norm.

Do the numbers of self - represented litigants, for example, look about the same in Canada as in the US, which is somewhere around 70 - ish percent of people, I think, depending on the type of matter, are unrepresented?

States are scored across five indexes: number of attorneys for people in poverty, support for self - represented litigants, support for people with limited English proficiency, support for people with disabilities, and a composite of the other four.

What is already clear is that LASPO changes have led to a substantial increase in the number of litigants who are having to appear in person before the courts.

In seeking to market to the widest possible audience, from litigants in person through HR professionals and up to «seasoned» practitioners, the Handbook runs the usual risk when seeking to ride a number of horses simultaneously of not quite hitting its stride on any leveIn seeking to market to the widest possible audience, from litigants in person through HR professionals and up to «seasoned» practitioners, the Handbook runs the usual risk when seeking to ride a number of horses simultaneously of not quite hitting its stride on any levein person through HR professionals and up to «seasoned» practitioners, the Handbook runs the usual risk when seeking to ride a number of horses simultaneously of not quite hitting its stride on any level.

Over the last 15 years there has been a growth in the number of individuals acting in civil proceedings as litigants in person (LiP).

In an era of increasing numbers of self - represented litigants, people need tools that will open the door of justice rather than obscure it.»

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.

A quick surf of the Internet reveals that there are a number of websites providing information to litigants in person and that there are also a number of initiatives underway to provide other assistance.

Both solutions will occur because the power of the news media and of the internet, interacting, will quickly make widely known these types of information, the cumulative effect of which will force governments and the courts to act: (1) the situations of the thousands of people whose lives have been ruined because they could not obtain the help of a lawyer; (2) the statistics as to the increasing percentages of litigants who are unrepresented and clogging the courts, causing judges to provide more public warnings; (3) the large fees that some lawyers charge; (4) increasing numbers of people being denied Legal Aid and court - appointed lawyers; (5) the many years that law societies have been unsuccessful in coping with this problem which continues to grow worse; (6) people prosecuted for «the unauthorized practice of law» because they tried to help others desperately in need of a lawyer whom they couldn't afford to hire; (7) that there is no truly effective advertising creating competition among law firms that could cause them to lower their fees; (8) that law societies are too comfortably protected by their monopoly over the provision of legal services, which is why they might block the expansion of the paralegal profession, and haven't effectively innovated with electronic technology and new infrastructure so as to be able to solve this problem; (9) that when members of the public access the law society website they don't see any reference to the problem that can assure them that something effective is being done and, (10) in order for the rule of law, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the whole of Canada's constitution be able to operate effectively and command sufficient respect, the majority of the population must be able to obtain a lawyer at reasonable cost.

I hear from those in large law libraries that are somewhat open to the public, such as academic law libraries, that they get a number of pro se litigants — i.e. people who intend on representing themselves in court — trying to do legal research.