Sentences with phrase «purpose of a civil trial»

Not exact matches

Usually, a winning SLAPP defendant has to apportion fees attributable to SLAPP activities, but this decision allows the trial judge to award extra-SLAPP fees as long as the other activities were «on the contract» under Civil Code section 1717 for purposes of fee recovery in the entire litigation matter.

Civil lawsuit trials can be conducted in a state other than the state where the breach of contract or tort giving rise to the lawsuit took place for jurisdictional purposes and not infrequently is brought in another state, although constitutional choice of law rules limit the circumstances under which a particular state's laws can be applied to a particular set of circumstances in a lawsuit.)

Zarin's Jury Verdict Review Publications was founded in 1980 by Ira J. Zarin, Esq., an eminent and certified civil trial attorney, for the purpose of educating and apprising members of the bar of what is happening at the trial court level by thoroughly reviewing and analyzing civil jury verdicts and settlements.

In the absence of rule, the court may proceed in any manner compatible with these purposes and, in civil cases, consistent with the case management / trial management guidelines set forth in Appendix XX of these rules.

It is also helpful to know the trial rules in your area, the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the Federal Rules of Evidence for trial purposes.

Rule 30.09 of the Rules of Civil Procedure requires that if surveillance is to be used as substantive evidence at trial, then counsel must give the opposite party notice of its intention to use the evidence, and the evidence itself must be produced to the opposite party at least 90 days before the commencement of trial.7 If counsel fails to do so, the Court will limit the use of that evidence to impeachment purposes only, except where a trial judge grants leave to use the evidence for substantive purposes.

Assuming the documentary productions could be used to impeach the plaintiff / complainant in the course of her testimony at the criminal trial (impeachment is a recognized exception to the deemed undertaking rule, in that Rule 30.1 does not prohibit discovery evidence being used for this purpose), the civil defence lawyer emailed the plaintiff's productions to his criminal counterpart.

In a criminal case, the assumption that the defendant is basically a law abiding person which applies in civil cases no longer holds true once probable cause has been demonstrated to an independent magistrate, even though the defendant is presumed innocent for the purpose of an ultimate trial.

Written questions on experts» reports and experts» discussions in civil cases were CPR innovations and the purpose of the rule is to facilitate a helpful and open exchange of information after the expert's reports have been served and prior to trial.