Sentences with phrase «on civil side»

On the civil side, that service generally involves counseling and representing indigent persons who have solid legal claims or defenses but lack the means to pursue them successfully.

Solutions in search of a problem is a recurring issue in court reform, both on the civil side and the criminal side (see Malcolm Feeley's, Court Reform on Trial).

On the civil side, at the trial court level, Quinn Emanuel has successfully defended clients in matters ranging from nuclear waste disposal and the operation of industrial facilities and landfills to oil spills and soil and groundwater contamination.

In fact, the logic of the Court's access right extends even beyond the confines of the criminal justice system to encompass proceedings held on the civil side of the docket as well.

On the civil side, there are success stories with pre-trial procedures.

On the civil side, Mr. Martin has represented large corporations in complex class actions and other civil trials.

While it's widely accepted that interpreters are needed in criminal cases, she said that litigants on the civil side can have a tougher time securing interpretation services.

The stakes can be just as high on the civil side, she added, since litigants might be seeking a court order to escape an abuser or avoid eviction and homelessness.

On the civil side we can see three fairly recent examples of legislation that meets a laudable policy objective but in practice is utterly meaningless because the pursuit of it provides no economic return.

On the civil side, The Times of London reports that the lead plaintiffs in a multibillion - dollar class action by Enron shareholders are not likely to pursue Lay's estate.

We make sure to follow the progress of any criminal proceeding against the drunk driver as a conviction can be helpful to you on the civil side of the proceedings against the drunk driver.

It would also «pose a genuine threat to public safety» by postponing criminal trials, while delays on the civil side would mean «commercial uncertainty, lost opportunities and unvindicated rights.»

So that explains sort of the problem on the criminal side and then that to make it even more clear why you're never going to have any help on the civil side.

I mean, on the civil side, we call those the pro se courts and there's a bunch of them.

That led a lot of people to believe... Gideon V. Wainwright was the case that provided a right to counsel on all criminal cases, and when people hear civil Gideon, they think, «Oh, you're just looking for the same thing on the civil side,» and we're not.

That's the problem we have on the civil side.

On the civil side, lawyers for both plaintiff and defendant breach their duties to their client if they put the interest of justice, or some other person, ahead of their client interest without instructions from the client to do so.

On the civil side, no matter what, it is still the law that, so long as the lawyer is prepared to act for the client, the lawyer's duty is to put the client's interest first and do whatever is legal to fulfill the retainer.

And on the civil side, they are not getting even counsel roles.

Also, one easy response to the fear that private dispute resolution will tend to marginalize the courts, on the civil side, is that it hasn't happened in, for example, the maritime law world and the reinsurance worlds.

Mario also represents individuals on the civil side in the following types of cases: class actions, social security disability, workers compensation, personal injury including traumatic injury, defective products including defective drugs, nursing home neglect, and predatory lending.

Not exact matches

Four months later, on August 29, just as Kiev began losing its attempt at ethnic cleansing against the eastern Donbas region, the IMF signed off on the first loan ever to a side engaged in a civil war, not to mention rife with insider capital flight and a collapsing balance of payments.

On the corporate side our Baltimore litigation lawyers are experienced at administrative law matters, arbitration and mediation, business litigation, civil appeals, contract disputes, cyber-law, environmental law, federal investigations, insurance law, real estate, tax prosecutions and IRS matters.

Regarding the Confederacy, I recently wrote a book on the last major initiative in 1861 to avert the Civil War — the Washington Peace Conference — where both sides extensively made their arguments.

Christianity was on both sides of the slavery issue before and during the Civil War.

Civil rights overriding universal values is akin to the tail wagging the dog; therefore, the pastors are on the correct side of the debate.

How Civil War — era churches that avoided taking sides on slavery ended up siding with its supporters.

Sorry Dude but Christianity's history has proven they are always on the wrong side or morality when it comes to civil rights.

Someone once asked Abraham Lincoln if he thought God was on the side of the North in the Civil War.

I have no doubt that many of the people who opposed abolition, interracial marriage, protection of indigenous people, black civil rights, women's suffrage, etc. believed wholeheartedly that God was on their side and they were simply being faithful to God's Word.

Remember, morals change in society; look at the abolitionist, women's suffrage, and civil rights movement, all of them originally didn't have «morality» on their side, but as society changed, the morals changed.

Christians like you in American history has always been on the wrong side of civil rights and morality.

Many of the responses to the Marriage Pledge from both sides of the divide on same - sex marriage have reflected substantial confusion over the distinction between Christian and civil marriage and what the role of the clergy is in the marriage ceremony.

God is not on America's side; Christians who think so are seriously mistaken, for they confuse civil religion with true Christianity.

I know, its the cowards way out but I just do not know because civil unions many folks agree with but folks having issues with using the term «marriage», I can see both sides to a point that I am stumped on an opinion.

How can our Christian witness survive if we're on the wrong side of what many now call «the great civil rights issue of our time»?

And yet... «As emergency workers - including personnel from the Red Cross and civil defense corps - responded to the explosion, «angry Christian youth started beating our staff and as a result broke the side glass of our ambulance that was on the scene to provide service,» he said.»

This is why I believe it's so important to study both historical religious arguments supporting the abolition of slavery and historical religious arguments opposing the abolition of slavery (see my post on Mark Noll's The Civil War as a Theological Crisis» for a sampling), as well as historical religious arguments supporting desegregation and historical religious arguments opposing desegregation — not because I believe both sides are equal, but because the patterns of argumentation that emerge are so unnervingly familiar:

So it is that «growing numbers of people are abandoning religion in practice; on every side they influence literature, the arts, the interpretation of the humanities and of history and civil laws themselves.

As the children gathered up the picnic utensils, their father asked where Matthew was preaching the next day — a sure sign that the discussion had remained not only civil but gratifying on both sides.

[i] Regardless of how one sides on this issue, a plain reading of Romans 13, clearly indicates that the civil government plays a role in God's design for society and His people.

At the time, however, most British people were unconcerned about this tragic event on the other side of Europe and were more focussed on the question of Irish Home Rule, which threatened to erupt into civil war.

You sound just like the people in the dark ages did when they were against civil rights for African Americans and women, you're the one on the wrong side of the moral debate with no facts to back yourselves up.

Reston's God, like the one Bellah described, is typical of the God of civil religion, is on the vague and austere side, «much more related to order, law, and right than to salvation and love.»

During the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln was purportedly asked if God was on his side.

The» - Christian» side of the hyphen, which would draw on the New Testament, is not of much help in defining laws for civil society.

I just feel like I ought to be on the right side of our generation's civil rights debate.

Protesters in both the civil rights and the antiwar movements sang «God Is on Our Side» to the tune of «We Shall Overcome.»

At least part of the motivation was to declare that God was on the Union side of the Civil War.

The conservative mass of people, recovering from the shock of civil war, acknowledged that Luther might be in the right on many matters but were waiting to see whether, after the war, an excommunicate and an outlaw still had might on his side.