Sentences with phrase «on unrepresented»

The Ministry of Justice refused to release its research on unrepresented defendants in criminal courts.

Latest on unrepresented litigants in the Ottawa Citizen.

The truth is this — insurance companies tend to pay less on unrepresented claims than to policy holders who have legal representation.

In reaching this conclusion, the committee disagreed with an Oregon ethics opinion that put the burden on the unrepresented party to ask about the inquirer's purpose.

In the UK, 54 % of all SMEs and 33 % of consumers muddle on unrepresented.

Specifically, courts are recognizing the ethical implications of an attorney who seeks access to information located on an unrepresented witness's social media profile.

In 1998 the Boston Bar Association Task Force on Unrepresented Litigants did a detailed study on this subject entitled Report on Pro Se Litigants.

For Berger, «the modern civil rights movement was grounded on the unrepresented body of a black child,» namely Till, whose absence from the covers of mainstream newspapers indicated that «the idea of suffering black children was of greater interest to whites than visual evidence of their plight.»

The periphery of the frame is used to shine a light on unrepresented LA spaces centring trans women of colour — from a brothel they disturb to kidnap a potential suspect, to a male cab driver giving a trans woman a blow job in a car wash.

Not exact matches

«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.

Re Prentice, I agree resigning as Tory leader is defensible, to an extent... but resigning the seat he had just won back on E-Day, leaving his constituents unrepresented and putting us all on the hook for an unnecessary by - election was crass and cowardly.

Through our Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG), the CIOT has a particular focus on improving the tax system, including tax credits and benefits, for the unrepresented taxpayer.

«Simpler tax laws would mean an easing of the administrative burden on business, individual taxpayers - especially the unrepresented - and tax collectors.

The difference it will make is that those who have been unrepresented will have someone to work on behalf of their interests.

Unrepresented at the highest management structure of NOMS, neglected and misrepresented, the probation service has for years plodded along in the shadows, only to be thrust into the limelight when the spotlight fell on individual tragedies amid media frenzies.

«Feedback to LITRG staff and volunteers from members of the public strongly suggests that government departments are failing to provide the necessary quality of guidance and levels of support to ensure that unrepresented individuals on low incomes can fully comply with their obligations or understand their entitlements under the tax and related welfare systems.

The speaker, for her part, has maintained that NYIFUP should remain the same — and attached terms to the program today stating, «Eligibility for legal representation provided through funds in unit of appropriation 107 for unrepresented, detained individuals in removal proceedings occurring in immigration court in New York City shall be based solely on income.»

Kawamoto came in during a tumultuous time for the company, facing product stagnation and an overreliance on sedans and sport coupes while Honda was unrepresented in the fast - growing sport utility vehicles and minivan segments.

The competition, launching on «This Morning» on 4th November, is open to unrepresented and unpublished authors, who will be asked to send in the first 3,000 words and a one - page synopsis from a novel or novel - in - progress.

When I reviewed the original Kindle back in 2007, I noted that Vladimir Nabokov and Ian Fleming were both missing; today, Lolita's author is still unrepresented on the device, but James Bond is in plentiful supply.

Should it be the case that the Courts support that a REALTOR doesn't have an obligation to see that «patent defects» are noted on an Inspection Report (pursuant to Agency and fiduciary obligations) then the buyer clients of REALTOR's might as well buy privately, or at least, unrepresented by a REALTOR, as it relates to the question of the Inspection.

These debtbuyers prey on the uninformed and unrepresented.

Re Robert's point, there's going to be unrepresented cash drag on the portfolio's performance vs. performance numbers for the indices that are fully invested throughout the year.

Their videos focus on historical moments, usually with an inclination toward unrepresented lives and communities.

With a focus on emerging artists unrepresented by a gallery, the third Brooklyn edition of this fair offers art at a more affordable price than its larger rivals.

«More than two - thirds of all authors of chapter 9 of the IPCC's 2007 climate - science assessment are part of a clique whose members have co-authored papers with each other... the majority of scientists who are skeptical of a human influence on climate significant enough to be damaging to the planet were unrepresented in the authorship of chapter 9.»

Having said that, Rule 7.2 - 9 provides that when a lawyer deals on a client's behalf with an unrepresented person, the lawyer shall:

If banning ODR is warranted because 13 % of litigants do not own a computer, then should we not bar lawyers from pleading since the percentage of unrepresented litigants is more than four times higher than the number of individuals on the wrong side of the digital divide?

Thus, a tribunal can be prevented from «allowing unrepresented claimants to ramble on for days on the weakest of grounds» by the respondent making such an application, if the claim is as weak as suggested.

When the justice system is splitting at the seams, students can't find jobs, unrepresented litigants are clogging courts and new competitors are emerging to eat lawyers» lunches, the law society focuses on civility.

[28] That Task Force issues annual reports on the number of low - income New Yorkers who are unrepresented in legal matters.

Lawyers will find practical advice on how to conduct themselves at all levels of representation, the roles of various parties, how to avoid common pitfalls, practice tips on effective advocacy and drafting, and dealing with unrepresented parties.

Young legal aid life: our latest column for Legal Voice on a day in the life of young legal aid lawyers was written by YLAL committee member Katherine Barnes about her experience acting in an appeal against a child's education, health and care plan in which the child's mother was unrepresented due to the withdrawal of legal aid for representation in education cases.

When it is used inappropriately, the effects are not just on the frequently unrepresented party on the other end, but on the justice system as a whole.

[30] It must be obvious to the mother, even as an unrepresented litigant, that the time deadlines imposed at the case management meetings for the filing of affidavits and briefs and concluding cross examinations are significant and can not be casually disregarded on a whim.

(This is certainly the experience of many of the unrepresented litigants discussed in Macfarlane's research and the Canadian Bar Association's recent report on access to justice.)

There are excellent lawyers within the duty counsel system, but they are trying to deal with everybody who is unrepresented and who was arrested on the proceeding day and sometimes even longer ago.

At the conclusion of the «in court» part of a trial or a sentencing process involving unrepresented litigants, the presiding judge takes on additional responsibilities.

I went back into law practice, practicing family law and mediation and about 12 years later, it's funny how good ideas sometimes take, have a long latency period, I was serving on an ABA committee that was studying unrepresented litigants and the findings, this was in Arizona, the findings of the researchers commissioned by the ABA, were that this was an exploding phenomenon of people representing themselves but they didn't do so well.

... costs borne by society at large include: costs associated with delays in court and administrative proceedings; increased court operation costs attributable to unrepresented litigants and accused; and, more broadly, costs associated with legal problems that are not resolved in an acceptable manner (including increased health care costs, increased social assistance costs and so on).

An order, under s 19 (1) of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985, for costs incurred as a result of an unnecessary or improper act or omission by or on behalf of a prosecutor may be made to compensate an unrepresented defendant for his own loss of time in preparing his case and attending court.

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?

Much of this «sharp lawyering» against unrepresented litigants goes unreported and uncommented on, and the reason is elementary: most unrepresented parties lack the legal sophistication and knowledge to understand that opposing counsel has treated them vexatiously, in a manner that would be in clear breach of the Rules of Professional Conduct if experienced by fellow Members of the Bar.

That means if you missed the two year statute of limitations for the Wrongful Death claim, if the person suffered before death, had substantial medical bills or had a punitive damages claim, then there may still be a suit that can be brought on behalf of the unrepresented Estate because it has been tolled by O.C.G.A. Sec. 9-3-32.

In the face of those Rules, lawyers still see their primary role as adversarial advocates on behalf of their clients, thereby taking full advantage of a situation in which it is clear that an unrepresented party can be «gamed» through their ignorance of basic trial procedure.

Sometimes they answer and get counsel, and because the law is so overwhelmingly on the side of the record companies, there's a negotiated settlement which is slightly lower than the settlement the people that are unrepresented have been getting.

Substantive legal advice now needs to be provided on the assumption that the client will go forward with part or all of the case unrepresented.

A lawyer may «friend» an unrepresented adversary to obtain information for a case, provided the lawyer first discloses the client that he or she is representing, the Committee on Professional Ethics of the Massachusetts Bar Association has ruled.

When the deposition begins, the witness is probably thinking about his lawyer's advice (or if unrepresented, advice they've read on the Internet), not to volunteer any information.

Many courts also offer training to judges on dealing with unrepresented litigants.