Sentences with phrase «priority civil cases»
The plan focuses on criminal and high - priority civil cases.
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In other cases, it has involved turning elements of civil society and the private economy into arms of government policy — by requiring compliance with policy goals that are foreign to many civil - society institutions or consolidating key sectors of the economy and offering protection to large corporations willing to act as public utilities or to advance policymakers» priorities.
The Supreme Court's decision in R. v. Jordan, 2016 SCC 27, gave priority to criminal cases being tried within a reasonable timeline, resulting in criminal cases receiving the majority of judicial resources and civil cases being further delayed.
The Jordan decision has forced governments to give priority to criminal trials, which in turn has resulted in lengthy delays in civil cases.
Thus, the civil cases get a lower priority.
ASLA provides free civil legal assistance to low income persons in the types of cases listed in the ASLA Priorities such as Minor Guardianship, Name Change, Small Estates, Domestic Violence, Home Foreclosure Defense etc..
Also: in most countries there is a huge backlog of criminal and civil cases for the justice system, so many that they can not all be prosecuted concurrently, hence some form of priority will be given.
From a practical perspective the four main difficulties are that (1) people convicted of crimes often lack the income or assets to pay judgments, (2) there are double recovery issues involved in reconciling restitution awards in a criminal case (where the measure of damages is narrower) and damage awards in a civil case (where the measure of damages is broader), (3) there are priority issues involved in reconciling criminal awards for fines, restitution and costs, in each case with civil awards for damages, and (4) if the defendant declares bankruptcy, the non-dischargeability of the civil judgment must be affirmatively raised and proved (often this is elementary but there are strict time limits) in the bankruptcy proceeding.