Sentences with phrase «rarely seen in court»

It was here that Judge Scott Johansen decided on an eye - for - an - eye of punishment rarely seen in court these days.

Not exact matches

There was a time when solicitors were seen but rarely heard in the higher courts.
By order of this Court, New Haven, a city in which African - Americans and Hispanics account for nearly 60 percent of the population, must today be served — as it was in the days of undisguised discrimination — by a fire department in which members of racial and ethnic minorities are rarely seen in command positions.
On the one hand, the Court is nine fiercely independent professionals, each with a unique sense of priorities and values and a strong desire to see those priorities and values appropriately reflected in Canadian law during their service on the Court; only rarely will these perfectly coincide with the parallel preferences of any of their colleagues, let alone all of them.
English courts are not limited to granting interim relief with respect to arbitrations seated in the jurisdiction, but interim relief will more rarely be granted in support of arbitrations seated outside of England and Wales (see Mobil Cerro Negro Ltd v Petroleos de Venezuela SA [2008] EWHC 532 (Comm)[2008] 2 All E.R. (Comm) 1034 and Western Bulk Shipowning III A / S v Carbofer Maritime Trading ApS, The Western Moscow [2012] EWHC 1224 (Comm)-RRB-.
This is usually seen as the case for one simple reason: these are the types of disputes that rarely appear in front of a court because the financial stakes are usually inferior to the costs associated with the legal process.
Before Campbell, it was well established that a good character direction will be of some value in every case in which it should be given (see R v Fulcher [1995] 2 Cr App R 251 at 260) and therefore, although a failure to give the direction will not necessarily render a conviction unsafe, with each case to be reviewed in the light of its own facts (see Singh v The State [2005] UKPC 35, [2005] 4 All ER 781), it will rarely be possible for an appellate court to say that such a failure could not have affected the outcome of the trial (see R v Kamar (1999) The Times, 14 May).
In other words, even when there is no articulated (false) allegation as to why a child should not see that other parent, the bias to protect that child from danger very often jumps into the thinking of the court, which causes the court to rarely act quickly and decisively to confront a violation of its own order.
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