Sentences with phrase «to get to trial»

Generally speaking, the closer the case gets to the trial date, the more likely it is that the court will refuse to allow the lawyer to withdraw.

In addition, it takes much less time to schedule an arbitration than it does to get to trial in most jurisdictions.

And while their debts piles up, their personal injury claim may not settle or get to trial for many months to come.

Comment This brief summary has touched upon more than 50 steps in a typical expert instruction, and we haven't even got to trial yet!

Every claim is different of course - the vast majority of cases never get to trial, and many are resolved without proceedings even being issued.

First, lawyers acting for defendants do not, generally speaking, have a vested interest in making sure the case gets to trial quickly.

And when the great trial lawyers get to trial, everything has been accounted and planned for.

Okay, but what percentage of litigation projects get to trial?

Will the client really want to take another year to get to trial for the chance to recover 60 % of the remaining 30 % of case value - litigation expenses.

If 98 % of all cases never get to trial, then what happens in the 2 % may well not be representative at all.

Judges often encourage the litigants in a case to try and reach an agreement that resolves their dispute before getting to trial.

But the cost of getting to trial is the principal punishment that the SLAPP plaintiff plans to inflict on its opponent.

When the case finally does get to trial the fiscal situation that the Superior Court looks at will have considerably worsened since the adequacy study was completed and the case was filed.

As for family law trials, while the number of proceedings commenced has slowly declined over the past 5 years from 82,000 proceedings to 72,000 proceedings, the number of cases that get to a trial date has remained consistent at 5,685 trials each year, affecting 11,370 Ontarians each year.

Brown said the new reality is that an accused person who isn't nearing the ceiling can actually be penalized for taking every step to get to trial as quickly as possible.

These materials provide valuable, detailed pointers for the criminal defence lawyer on getting to trial, including strategies for using a systematic focus to improve case analysis, issue identification, and responding to the issues.

An interlocutory injunction is an order requiring an alleged infringer to immediately stop its allegedly infringing activities before the case gets to trial when all of the evidence is presented in support of and in response to the allegations.

«I'm a believer that you wait until this thing gets to trial,» Stone said.

So, when the Boston Marathon Bomber gets to trial, should the judge just «hocus pocus» that away and send him off with a hefty reward?

When You Actually Get to Trial: Theme of case — Every case should have a central theme that you wish to convey to the jury; — Plaintiff overreaching on damages; — If a clear liability case, to concede or not to concede liability and concentrate on damages; — Adopt conciliatory tone on liability but not on damages;

By the time Vassell got to trial on April 22, 2014, three years later, all of the other defendants had fallen by the way for various reasons.

The Eastern District of Texas became popular with patent lawyers a decade ago when the federal judges there created a so - called rocket docket, allowing patent holders to move through the pretrial process more quickly and get to trial sooner.

Although these cost awards remain unusual, granting them more frequently for unfair conduct would assist parties disadvantaged in this way to demonstrate such findings more routinely at trial, and would help parties get to trial to begin with.

The consumers» lawsuit, initially filed in 2005, took until this year get to trial.

If you are in Cook County, you might not get to trial for eighteen months to two years.

In the wake of the Jordan decision a case may be dismissed due to delay if it takes more than 18 months to get to trial in provincial court, or 30 months in Superior Court.

As one commentator explained, the Eastern District's «speed, large damage awards, outstanding win - rates, likelihood of getting to trial, and plaintiff - friendly local rules suddenly made [it] the venue of choice for patent plaintiffs.»

Lord Justice Jackson must have known that these cases were not taking up to 10 years to get to trial as they were in Singapore.

The deficiencies in the case that were obvious to the judge ought to have been obvious to the Crown long before the case got to trial.

«The decision on the injunction is disappointing because Rogers» service isn't faster or more reliable than Bell's, and it means their misleading claims will continue until we get to trial.»

A few weeks I attended The Health Bloggers Community summit in London and upon arrival I got to trial out the new vegan Bounce Balls.

By the time I got to the trial I did not care.

I said that you think «Michael E Mann has a case against me and the case ought to be permitted to got to trial».

The closer I get to trial date the more anxious my prosecutors are to settle, and they'll usually come up with better and better deals the closer to trial they get.

It can take years to get to trial if a party decides to be obstructive.

The case took ten years to get to trial and was successful.

Settlements are usually beneficial to the client as they are likely to get payment for damages more quickly and may pay less in legal fees then they would by the time a case finally got to trial.

In other parts of Southern California, the time it takes to get to trial will generally take longer than 18 months.

A commonly criticized issue within the criminal law system is the length of time it sometimes takes a case to get to trial.

That decision, released last year, was R v. Jordan, which takes its name from Gottardi's client, Barrett Jordan, a Surrey, B.C., man who was arrested on drug charges and whose case took four years to get to trial.

The province's announcement follows the Supreme Court's landmark decision in R.v. Jordan, which set time limits by which all matters must get to trial.

There have been situations in which Ontario judges have halted cases involving serious criminal charges because they have taken too long to get to trial, however, this is not always the case.

Getting to trial can take years in some cases because of the backlog of civil cases.

Last month, a Superior Court judge in Ottawa halted a first - degree murder case because it had taken too long to get to trial.

Earlier this month, the Ministry of the Attorney General announced that the Ontario government is taking proactive steps to make the province's criminal justice system «faster and fairer», including improving the bail system, and reducing the time it takes for matters to get to trial.