Sentences with phrase «significant time in court»

If you are struck by a motorist with no insurance and your only recourse to collect compensation for your expenses is to sue, you will have to pay for legal representation, spend significant time in court over a long period of time, and then hope you win your case.

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In the case that comes before the High Court today — July 31st, 2013 — only time will tell if the 8th amendment will play a significant part, or not, in the ultimate ruling on where Aja Teehan and Charles Brand will be «allowed» to welcome the newest member of their family into this worlIn the case that comes before the High Court today — July 31st, 2013 — only time will tell if the 8th amendment will play a significant part, or not, in the ultimate ruling on where Aja Teehan and Charles Brand will be «allowed» to welcome the newest member of their family into this worlin the ultimate ruling on where Aja Teehan and Charles Brand will be «allowed» to welcome the newest member of their family into this world.

Donald Trump is taking his time in responding to Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt, which constitutional scholars describe as the most significant U.S. Supreme Court abortion ruling in a decade.

It's unclear whether the Houston school district will now negotiate a settlement with the teachers union or end up back in court, but either way, the decision comes at a significant time for the test - based accountability movement, which has faced a number of legal and political challenges over the past several years.

He also dedicates significant time to pro bono matters and has made numerous appearances in Family Court, Immigration Court and Housing Court.

«This is significant because it is the first time scientists have demonstrated the human fingerprint on a particular weather event with the kind of certainty that would stand up in court,» said Annie Petsonk, Environmental Defense's international counsel.

The Tele2 judgment represents a rupture with the past in one very significant way: the Court, for the first time, unequivocally states that blanket data retention measures are incompatible with EU law, read in light of the Charter.

High participation rates have contributed to significant resource savings for courts — particularly in staff time and the related cost savings.

The court has used its discretion to deny an application for the production of documents in the following two circumstances: firstly, where thousands of documents of only possible relevance are in question; and secondly, where the documents sought do not have significant probative value and the value of production is outweighed by competing interests such as confidentiality and time and expense required for the party to produce the documents: Park at para. 15.

Laura dedicates significant time to her pro bono work on prisoner civil rights cases in conjunction with the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania's Prisoner Civil Rights Panel.

After conducting advanced analysis on the data obtained, being a victim of a sexual crime was shown to be a significant predictor of juror behaviour in rape cases, with the research revealing that jurors with personal experience of victimisation were four times more likely to convict in court, prior to deliberations taking place.

It is clear from the case that the supervisor's prior convictions and unpaid fines weighed significantly in the court's decision to impose a custodial sentence in a case that might otherwise have attracted a significant monetary penalty but not resulted in jail time.

The dockets of the Ontario Court of Justice remain crowded and in some jurisdictions, particularly in large urban areas which have seen significant population growth, the time to trial has actually increased unacceptably.

Our lawyers spend a significant amount of time in labor and employment litigation, which includes the defense of employment discrimination and wrongful discharge cases in federal and state courts, arbitration proceedings, the defense of individual employment contract actions, and proceedings before various state and federal administrative agencies, including the National Labor Relations Board, United States, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania Departments of Labor, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, New Jersey Division on Civil Rights, the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission, and OSHA.

This is a significant case, not only because the Court for the first time had to deal with the increasingly more common phenomenon of the «false self - employed» when interpreting competition law, but also because the Court once again demonstrated its willingness to take public interests other than economic efficiency into account when applying competition law (a holistic approach that, I argue, is fundamentally more in line with the EU treaties).

With the ability to visualise, combine and replicate processes and data, VR reconstructions have the ability to provide significant savings in both time and costs to both courts and claimants.

One notable empirical study by Professor Patrick Borchers suggested that courts using these modern approaches tended to apply forum law to tort conflicts anywhere from 55 to 77 per cent of the time — a statistically significant trend that diverged markedly from the level of forum preference seen in cases applying the older territorial rules.

The Court agreed with the majority of jurisdictions in finding a child has a «significant connection» with New Hampshire when one parent still resides in state and exercises more than de minimis parenting time in New Hampshire.

For example, a Georgia court found a significant connection for parenting time that was exercised every other weekend and 8 weeks in the summer.

Speaking ability is important as bankruptcy lawyers spend a significant percentage of their time on their feet arguing in court.

These recent cases and the change in approach by the Australian courts to add backs, no doubt cause a significant risk to parties if a long time passes between separation and a final financial settlement.

One of the most significant changes in the time from the older policy document is the Supreme Court of Canada's 2004 decision in Syndicat Northcrest v. Amselem, dealing with the use of tabernacles during the Jewish festival of Succoth.

The demand for separate representation for children in Hague Convention proceedings has seen significant activity in the last three years with the subject receiving consideration twice in the House of Lords and three times in the Court of Appeal, most recently in Re C [2008] EWHC 517 (Fam), [2009] 1 FCR 194.

Western Australia's Court of Appeal in its decision AME Hospitals PTY, Limited v. Dixon [2015] WASCA 63, delivered on 27 March 2015, confirmed, particularly relevantly in the medical negligence claims area, significant scope for persons to bring claim outside the basic 3 - year time limit for such claims arising since November 2005 and the introduction of the Limitation Act 2005.

While the overall volume of cases heard by the judges of the Court of Appeal has remained relatively stable in recent years, the temporary judicial vacancies experienced for significant parts of the year reduced the number of full - time judges available to hear these cases.

Because there is often a significant wait - time until the parties in a divorce case can take the stand and give oral evidence concerning their family matter, the court is often asked to provide interim relief orders.

The Japanese courts purported to acknowledge that he had custody of the child, which he had been awarded in Wisconsin, where the child was born and lived, but then decided that the child should stay in Japan with her Japanese mother because by that time the delays had been such that she had already been in Japan for a significant period of time.

(c) This is the first time that the Singapore High Court had the opportunity to decide on this significant issue — it is significant because a party may unwittingly lose its right to challenge jurisdiction given the permissive language in Article 16 (3) of the Model Law.

The ITC decides patent cases in less than half the time district courts do, on average, and hears a significant share of the nation's patent trials.

It is believed that the decision is also the first time the court has recognized the risk law firms face in being stuck with disbursement costs in contingency fee cases agreements and the significant barrier that could create for lawyers involved in them.

While it is impossible to plan for every scenario, as the court stated, independent legal advice can be a significant benefit in drafting a marriage agreement that is valid and fair, and a marriage agreement that is likely to stand the test of time.

A lawyer who is more experienced in courtroom advocacy will often be able to narrow the issues, which, apart from making the case more persuasive to the judge or arbitrator, can result in significant saving of preparation time, and court time.

Although New York Labor Law 240 (1) has undergone a rather significant judicial expansion in the past few years, beginning most notably with the Runner case decided by the Court of Appeals in 2009, plaintiff attorneys should take heed that lower courts have at times not shown a willingness to read the statute in an overly - broad fashion.

For the time being, the significant point is that, as noted at the beginning of this post, the reasoning of the majority in Kennedy — which emphasizes the fertility and richness of the common law as a source of fundamental rights and values — falls increasingly to be understood as part of a new stream of constitutional jurisprudence emerging from the Supreme Court.

We also understand that the decisions of the Courts will be sent to Can LII on a daily basis, and that there should not be a significant time lag in accessing them on Can LII.

It is clear from the case that the supervisor's prior convictions and unpaid fines were a significant factor in the court's decision to impose a custodial sentence in a case that might otherwise have attracted a significant monetary penalty but not resulted in jail time.

The issue in this brief, but significant, decision of the Alberta Court of Appeal is whether Ms. Shirley Jackson, Q.C., a one - time deputy judge of the Yukon Territorial Court, is entitled to sit as a presiding officer in Alberta.

Accordingly, the ECJ ruled that domestic courts are required to disapply the said provisions when prosecution of serious VAT frauds is time - barred in a significant number of cases.

Aside from the evidential difficulties in determining such issues (into which only really the parties can have significant insight) the reality is that the courts simply do not have time, or most parties the wherewithal to fund the associated costs, to consider issues of conduct at length.

While many thought that the procedure had resulted in savings of court time (in one case as much as half), the great majority did not believe that it had produced any significant saving of costs.

First Reference Talks Desperate times do not justify desperate measures In Trites v. Renin Corp, 2013 ONSC 2715, the court considered «the novel and perplexing legal issue» of whether an employer that is experiencing significant financial difficulties can unilaterally impose a temporary layoff on an employee in the absence of an express or implied term in the contract of employment to support the employer's actioIn Trites v. Renin Corp, 2013 ONSC 2715, the court considered «the novel and perplexing legal issue» of whether an employer that is experiencing significant financial difficulties can unilaterally impose a temporary layoff on an employee in the absence of an express or implied term in the contract of employment to support the employer's actioin the absence of an express or implied term in the contract of employment to support the employer's actioin the contract of employment to support the employer's action.

I think that the whole question of preemption continues to be the most significant new development in products liability in the last two decades and every time the Court decides a question, it is a significant new development.

In the aftermath of auto accidents, victims who are severely injured or who miss significant time at work are often encouraged by their families or lawyers to seek punitive damages in civil court to cover these costs and their pain and sufferinIn the aftermath of auto accidents, victims who are severely injured or who miss significant time at work are often encouraged by their families or lawyers to seek punitive damages in civil court to cover these costs and their pain and sufferinin civil court to cover these costs and their pain and suffering.

The Review noted that circle sentencing was appropriate to be trialled in other communities, but would have to be tailored to the cultures and customs of different Aboriginal groups in order to succeed, and that it required the commitment of significant resources as processing sentences through this process is more time consuming than a usual court setting.

While some fathers may take little interest in their children, the main causes include failure of the courts to award joint physical custody, failure to award significant parenting time («visitation»), failure to enforce the parenting time that has been ordered, readiness to curtail contact between fathers and children when estranged wives make any allegation, child support orders that require fathers to work two or three jobs, thus leaving no time for parenting, moveaways, and other factors.

The NSW Government's actions in enacting the Aboriginal land rights legislation long before the legal fiction of terra nullius was overturned by the High Court in 1992, was a remarkable and significant step at the time.

(4) Subsection (3) does not limit the other matters to which a court can have regard in determining whether the time a child spends with a parent would be substantial and significant.

FAMILY LAW — CHILDREN — Best interests — Where both parents seek sole parental responsibility and for the child to live with them — Where the respondent mother believes the child would settle down and accept the arrangement if the court ordered for the child to spend no time with applicant father — Where the court has a statutory mandate to make parenting orders with the child's best interests as the paramount concern — Where there is little doubt that the child would benefit from having a meaningful relationship with both parents — Where the child's clear views that he does not want to spend time with the respondent mother should be given significant weight in the circumstances — Where the child is of an age, maturity and intelligence to have principally formed his own rationally based views — Where the court is satisfied that it is in the child's best interests for the presumption of equal shared parental responsibility to be rebutted — Where the respondent father is to have sole parental responsibility and the child is to live with him — Where the applicant mother is permitted to attend certain school and sporting events of the child — Where the child should be able to instigate contact with the respondent mother as he considers appropriate to his needs and circumstances — Where the orders made are least likely to lead to the institution of further proceedings in relation to the child — Where the child is to have the outcome of these proceedings, the effect of the orders and the reasons for judgment explained to him by an expert as soon as reasonably practical.

The court will only grant the order if the parent shows there has been a significant change in circumstances, such as a significant change in the income of either parent, or a change in the amount of time the child spends with each parent.

Missouri law is structured to maintain the child - parent bond after divorce, and the court favors a plan in which the child spends significant time with both parents.