Sentences with phrase «standing by a litigant»

While there is no substitute for a lawyer, the help of a well - trained non-lawyer standing by a litigant's side is far preferable to no help at all.

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That shift was made possible by the 1965 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals decision, which, for the first time, granted environmental litigants standing to sue in federal court.

As noted by the Ontario Court of Appeal in M.E.H. v. Williams (2012 ONCA 35), purely personal interests can not justify non-publication or sealing orders: ``... the personal concerns of a litigant, including concerns about the very real emotional distress and embarrassment that can be occasioned to litigants when justice is done in public, will not, standing alone, satisfy the necessity branch of the test».

Of course, no judge can ever be a consistent Mute, and the examples provided by Sunstein revolve around courts declining standing to litigants as an instance of Muteness.

N O T I C E It is notified for the information of all concerned Advocates / Advocates - on - Record / litigant public that the Court Programme issued by Dr. Faqir Hussain, Former Registrar on Orders of Former Chief Justice on 03.11.2007 conveying sitting of the Hon» ble Judges stands cancelled and withdrawn.

The importance of this point is not, however, that it can be fashioned into a self - standing constitutional principle, but that it underscores that a litigant, whether plaintiff or defendant, comes to court not to gain a benefit, but to vindicate a right already conferred on him or her by law.

Our courts are already struggling with the costs and burdens associated with an increasing number of self - represented litigants who have been driven to stand alone in court by the crushing burden of high legal fees and expensive court proceedings.