Sentences with phrase «of litigants in person»

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Whilst it may be sensible to concentrate on whether documents have been served correctly rather than on the identity of the person serving them, this analysis has been the subject of criticism, with solicitors worrying that this may allow non-regulated persons to carry out other reserved legal activities on behalf of litigants in person.

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.

Another way of asking the same question is, what are the most common errors or misunderstandings of litigants in person?

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».

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

Meanwhile on Planet Earth the judiciary, Parliament, the lord chief justice, lawyers, courts and the press are concerned about the unprecedented numbers of litigants in person who appear not yet to have realised the joys of our wonderful ABSs.

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

Interestingly, HHJ Stephen Wildblood QC gave a lengthy interview published in Buzzfeed in October 2017, as part of his efforts to help the growing number of litigants in person, a step that surely would have been unimaginable only a few years ago and provided very welcome insight into the family justice system for those outside it.

Moreover, rather than reducing the overall cost of litigating minor claims, the proposed reforms would «inevitably lead to a rise in the number of litigants in person, an increase in activity by unregulated claims management companies, increased costs on insurers in terms of case handling, and increased burden on an already stretched court service», they said.

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

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.

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

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 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.

«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.»

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.

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.»