Sentences with phrase «than a defence claiming»

Not exact matches

Our defence was dreadful and that's a compliment — Stoke were definitely unlucky not to have taken all 3 points; they had a definite penalty claim, hit the post, and just looked far more dangerous than we ever did when they came forward and attacked our suspect back line.

The government said it will seek to reduce the number of empty homes maintained by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) after the Liberal Democrats claimed it was wasting more than # 25 million a year on unoccupied properties.

Trewin said Alan later claimed that his knowledge of military history and technical details meant that when he was Minister for Defence Procurement he knew more than his military and civilian advisers - something they might dispute.

Theresa May was under pressure to contain the fallout from claims of sexual misconduct at Westminster, as defence secretary Michael Fallon admitted inappropriate behaviour towards a female journalist more than a decade ago.

They are meaningless categories, and the defence that an attempt to point out that they are meaningless categories is semantic play is dishonest, since it ultimately depends on nothing more than Curtis's claim that the authors are honest.

Another defence of Relativity theory is the claim that the light path upon the disc is longer in one direction than the other.

timely responses to communications by email and telephone timely production of documents especially medical counsel for plaintiffs advising their clients about early settlement and realistic expectations counsel for defendants advising their clients to attend mediations with sufficient settlement authority expertise in a particular area of law posturing and egotism on both sides claims for punitive damages where none are warranted under law preparation for significant events such as examinations for discovery and motions accountability for the consequences of steps taken or delayed unnecessary or defensive crossclaims and third party claims by defence counsel regional differences (some local bars are more collegial than others)

Non-party costs orders against those who have funded defences are more unusual than orders made against those who have funded claims.

Consider the matters you handle and the nature of your practice — get excess coverage if you think you have exposure to a claim that would be worth more than $ 1 million in terms of indemnity (including pre-judgment interest) and defence costs.

The Court of Appeal agreed with the first instance judge that the claim was time - barred but held that his cause of action accrued when he acted on the alleged negligent advice in 1997; an earlier date than that found at first instance (it also agreed that the claimant could not successfully overcome the limitation defence by relying on the provisions of s 14A of the Limitation Act 1980).

This paper claims that a process - based conception of proportionality offers a stronger defence of judicial discretion in sentencing than the current framework offers; it better respects institutional roles and provides a more principled basis for declaring the current structure of mandatory minimum penalties unconstitutional.

Appreciating this, can a Plaintiff simply defeat a Defence application to put a case into Rule 68 by claiming he will seek more than $ 100,000 in total damages at trial?

If compliance with the law, rather than defence against a claim of breach, is the issue, the source of the law is irrelevant.

A plea that the arbitral tribunal does not have jurisdiction shall be raised no later than in the statement of defence or, with respect to a counterclaim or a claim for the purpose of a set - off, in the reply to the counterclaim or to the claim for the purpose of a set - off.

However, the High Court has held on more than one occasion that seeking to bring claims or advance defences that were rejected in an earlier arbitration can amount to abuse of process (Michael Wilson & Partners Ltd v Sinclair [2012] EWHC 2560 (Comm); OMV Petrom SA v Glencore International AG [2014] EWHC 242 (Comm)-RRB-.

The Claimant persuaded the Employment Judge that the Limitation Act acted merely as a very strong defence as civil courts can in fact consider claims that existed more than 6 years prior to issue.

Mishcon de Reya's Fraud Defence Group has successfully struck out a High Court claim brought by Russian state - owned oil company PJSC Tatneft against four Ukrainian businessmen over allegations they misappropriated more than US$ 334 million owed from a major oil transaction.

Defence lawyers have dismissed Legal Services Commission (LSC) claims that the Public Defender Service (PDS) provides a better quality of service than private practice.