Sentences with phrase «of litigants in»

The colleague did not identify his own client or any of the litigants in the action to which the opinion applied.

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.

«Over 90 percent of litigants in the business court docket pilot project who were surveyed had a positive experience,» said Deborah Taylor Tate, director of the AOC.

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.»

The recent Supreme Court decision in Barton v Wright Hassall however suggests that the Court is now taking a harsher approach even in the case of litigants in person.

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.

«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.»

This does not replace professional advice and representation, but it provides a useful service in informing the public and facilitating the involvement of litigants in a way that is consistent with the prudent management of court resources and with the effective resolution of disputes.

There has always been a dearth of decent information about legal rights available to people — all the more shocking as the courts have to deal with the reality of a new post-LASPO generation of litigants in person.

«The old and familiar maxim in Bacon's Legal Maxims - De fide et officio judicis iton recipitur quaestio, sed de scientia, sive sit error juris, sive facti - expresses the distinction with reference to «due process of law» in the fourteenth amendment between the right of litigants in state courts in cases arising under the local state law to have the local state law administered judicially and not arbitrarily, and their right to have free, fair and impartial state tribunals.

«Imagine a court hearing where a witness enters the courtroom and one of the litigants in the case approaches the witness and says «This doesn't affect your testimony at all, but here's $ 800,000 for you if this case happens to go my way.»

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

An appellate court recently reversed a lower court's decision based on a catalog of disrespectful and derogatory statements from the bench toward one of the litigants in the case, who was representing himself.

OurKingdom also reported on the rise of litigants in person and alleged that the government is trying to «hide the chaos caused by legal aid cuts».

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

It includes provisions for exchange of information between parties and by Article 3 assures the rights of litigants in the party states: «Citizens of the contracting parties shall enjoy within the borders of each party the right of litigation before legal bodies to demand and defend their rights.»

The judiciary has, understandably, been increasingly concerned about the position of Litigants in Person and even produced a Handbook to help them in 2013.

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.

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.

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.

But self - represented litigants now account for around 40 per cent of litigants in the family courts system, and more than 70 per cent in some lower civil courts, according to MacFarlane's May 2013 report, «Identifying and Meeting the Needs of Self - Represented Litigants.»

Litigants in person: somewhere in the background of our fractured civil justice system a debate is going on about the position of litigants in person in civil proceedings (including family proceedings).

To recap, 40 % of the litigants in the Macfarlane report earned less than $ 30,000 per year, 61 % in the Malcolmson and Reid report earned less than $ 24,000 per year, and 60 % in the Nova Scotia report earned less than $ 29,999 per year.

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.

The vast majority of the litigants in these cases are unrepresented and many of them would benefit by being represented.

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

The Family Mediation Task Force (FMTF) was created in response to the fall in publicly - funded mediations and the rise of litigants in person and chaired by David Norgrove, formerly of the Family Justice Review, and current chair of the Family Justice Board.

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.

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.

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.

The commission makes 100 recommendations featuring six overarching ones: the National Advice and Legal Support Fund mentioned before; prioritising public legal education in schools, alongside financial literacy, and in «education for life»; calling on government to clampdown down «preventable demand» by getting decisions right the first time including a «polluter pays» scheme for the DWP to pay costs on upheld appeals (on average 35 % of appeals against welfare benefits decisions are upheld); an overhaul of the courts to make them better suited for the needs of litigants in person; a national strategy for 2015 — 20, including a «minister for advice and legal support»; and for local authorities to commission local advice and legal support plans.

Mr Justice Mostyn has spoken out in court about the «abysmal» behaviour of a litigant in person who threatened judges, sent abusive e-mails and assaulted the opposing counsel.

After an overview of the Employment Tribunal regime in chapter 1, it launches into a consideration of the need for advice, thus openly pitching to the lowest common denominator of the litigant in person while in a balanced and unbiased manner (bearing in mind that it is written by seasoned practitioners) considering whether professional assistance is necessary.

That was certainly desirable in the case of a litigant in person.

Not exact matches

Jeff Cronin, the director of communications for the Center for Science in the Public Interest and a litigant in the case, tells WTOP that this settlement is good news for consumers.

«In some courts, on some days, I am told, unrepresented litigants are up to 40 of the cases,» McLachlin told a Canadian Bar Association audience.

James Blumstein, a professor of law and the director of the Vanderbilt Health Policy Center, explains that if Brown had standing when she filed suit — originally — that's what matters most, since the NFIB, which is an institutional litigant, has members who are in similar circumstances as Brown.

Given the blood in the water, firms specializing in bringing such lawsuits — ones alleging that board members are illegally preventing a sale that is in the best financial interest of shareholders — are already out there, trolling for would - be investor litigants.

As for my part, I am filing a complaint with the Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice and asking her and The Court to mark Tony Jones as a Vexatious Litigant in that state (he has to get judicial approval to sue); asking The Court to take action against Tony Jones» attorney's (M. Sue Wilson's) law license; and asking the Court to order an investigation into the family court judge who signed the Order (as it has been alleged that she is possibly the former law partner of M. Sue Wilson.

In order to stop a new highway, a dam or canal, or a power plant, litigants must establish not simply that the environment will be damaged, but that the ultimate injury to human welfare will be greater than the proposed benefit of the project.

He suggests that, in agreement with Lincoln, Supreme Court decisions should be binding only on the litigants and not on other branches of the federal government, nor on other states, as the case may be.

8 Obvious horse sense — especially if you are not too sure about the administration of justice in your local court — but it was not just practical advice for litigants.

The application must be signed by the presiding judge of the trial court in the district and the judge (s) presiding over the court (s) in which the litigants will be assisted by the initiative.

Wyckoff Gardens is one of the six community litigants in the LICH legal battle.

The stories of judges becoming very wealthy on bribes paid by litigants in election petitions and other high profile cases have become more pervasive and in matters of the sanctity of the judicial process, appearances are at least as important as the substance.

«The se are the court users like, both of the Higher and Lower Benches, Lawyers, the Police, Prison Officers, UN-unconnected Donor agencies, Social Workers, Litigants, Legislators, Law Students and al other stakeholders in the justice sector.

«Although the NJC recently recommended the dismissal and prosecution of a judge for extorting N197 million from a litigant, the authorities had paid lip service to the menace of judicial corruption in the country,» he said.