Sentences with phrase «requiring civil litigants»

Not exact matches

«(a) CONSIDERATION OF ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION IN APPROPRIATE CASES - Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary and except as provided in subsections (b) and (c), each district court shall, by local rule adopted under section 2071 (a), require that litigants in all civil cases consider the use of an alternative dispute resolution process at an appropriate stage in the litigation.

Perhaps what I should have said is something to the effect that «at present, in most personal civil disputes, legal representation is not required nor compellable over a litigant's objections.»

At issue is the constitutionality of the «hearing fees» which British Columbia requires a litigant setting a civil case down for trial to undertake to pay.