Sentences with word «unrepresented»

Reflecting widespread concerns over detainees» access to legal help, one judge spoke of the «shocking» rise in unrepresented litigants in person.

For example, in San Diego, the number of unrepresented parties in family court cases went up 70 percent in 2004 from 54 percent in the early 1990s.

However, licensees should remember that dealing with unrepresented buyers creates significant risks for:

With up to 70 % of civil litigants and 40 % or more of family litigants unrepresented in our courts *, there are many, many individuals (the «non-clients») who have a considerable stake in the future of the legal profession but who would not be included in a lawyers» debate about what clients want.

The move is intended to reduce the number of unrepresented parties in family law, as well as promote non-adversarial dispute resolution.

Sellers who won't agree in advance will truly then have to deal with unrepresented buyers and lots of luck getting them on paper..

The goal of the audio feature is to improve the DIY Forms» experience for unrepresented litigants with limited English proficiency and lower reading comprehension, as well as users who process information better from spoken rather than written words.

Recently, I was asked to create a simple list of civil negotiation and conflict resolution «tips» for use by people unrepresented by counsel.

Somehow we have to harness their passion and skills to the huge swathe of unrepresented people.

Put simply, these trial courts are faced with lengthy dockets with the pressure of trying to complete them in a sitting, often litigated by unrepresented defendants with little experience or knowledge of the substantive and procedural law, some quite upset about the perceived injustice in their case, in a crowded courtroom with perhaps less than ideal staffing or facilities.

Many contemporary artists such as Nan Goldin, Catherine Opie, and Wolfgang Tillmans have utilized the conventions of portraiture to record their own individual communities, giving visual form to subcultures that have often gone unrepresented in mainstream culture.

In 1998 the Boston Bar Association Task Force on Unrepresented Litigants did a detailed study on this subject entitled Report on Pro Se Litigants.

Real estate practitioners as well as unrepresented sellers are invited to market their listings on the site at no charge.

The initiative will also address the shocking dearth of information available for unrepresented claimants.

«We shall continue to monitor the development of tax law and policy from the perspective of unrepresented individuals on low incomes, particularly those with precarious earnings, students, pensioners, disabled people and claimants of tax credits and universal credit, and be a premier source of tax information for the public.»

The panel all agreed legal aid is an essential service experiencing significant cutbacks, particular in family law, where unrepresented clients are suffering serious repercussions.

Toronto lawyer Megan Savard, who represented the Criminal Lawyers» Association as an intervener in the Cody case before the Supreme Court, said there are many things judges can do to reduce delays, including imposing deadlines on themselves to make decisions, appointing lawyers to act for unrepresented accused persons, and setting timelines and working with the parties to narrow the issues.

Together the collection includes work by 60 artists previously unrepresented in the museum's permanent collection.

(3) the unaffordable legal services problem, i.e., the majority of the population can not afford a lawyer's advice, therefore they must go to court unrepresented by counsel.

RBC lawyers in New York, Minneapolis, Atlanta, Toronto, and London volunteered a record 1,020 hours of pro bono time in the past year by assisting unrepresented litigants in civil matters, acting as designated representatives for unaccompanied minor children, assisting cancer patients with legal rights, and assisting foster parents with the adoption of older youths.

When the deposition begins, the witness is probably thinking about his lawyer's advice (or if unrepresented, advice they've read on the Internet), not to volunteer any information.

A third of divorce cases without children involve unrepresented parties as do one in five divorces with children.

Unrepresented at the highest management structure of NOMS, neglected and misrepresented, the probation service has for years plodded along in the shadows, only to be thrust into the limelight when the spotlight fell on individual tragedies amid media frenzies.

It confronts the perceptual discrimination that female artists are often unrepresented by arts institutions, as an optimistic proposition of how such female artists need more visibility, for their artistic endeavours and position under patriarchy.

For this first course, Parker decided to focus on helping unrepresented litigants answer a complaint.

Clerks began answering inquiries from unrepresented defendants.

The program provides unrepresented parties not only the benefit of attorney advice but also assistance in navigating the court system.

According to the Law Society, the decision means the Legal Aid Agency will in future need to look at the facts of a specific case to decide whether it should pay the fees in full, and that where unrepresented parents can not afford to commission expert evidence it may be appropriate for the full costs to be borne by the child through their legal aid certificate.

It would make more sense that the reference to an offer: coming directly from a buyer would be in regards to a totally unrepresented buyer, who had approached a «mere posting» seller.

Before making that decision, you should consider the risks of remaining unrepresented, and the potential benefits of having a real estate licensee represent your interests in a trade in real estate.

Paying tribute to Anthony Thomas, Anne Fairpo said: «Anthony has been a bold, dedicated, and hard - working chair, always encouraging and supporting a busy team in their work for unrepresented taxpayers, and an admirable successor to John Andrews OBE who was the founder and first chair of LITRG.

One couple Cutrufelli described as «classic Internet buyers» spent a year researching the market and nine months going to open houses unrepresented before they came to one of her events.

«While many unrepresented sellers are motivated to save on paying a commission, we think the price difference speaks for itself,» Stevens says.

It is hence not surprising that a significant portion of Turkey's society, which also feels unrepresented by the infighting - plagued main opposition party, was ready to go to the streets, when the initial protests over the shopping centre were brutally repressed.

«As I continued to explore the issues and hear from different communities, it became clear to me that precluding paralegals from appearing in court would be a disservice to clients,» she wrote, noting that demand for help among unrepresented family law litigants peaks when they are called to appear in court.

This Article suggests a new model for attorney representation based on the combined use of limited scope representation and ADR processes to give otherwise unrepresented parties greater access to justice.

All authors are invited to submit their work, including unrepresented authors, and new unpublished authors.

Unrepresented criminal defendants do all sorts of harmful things to themselves when they appear for their trial date without a lawyer.

In the case at bar, the Applicant conducted herself as if her Legal Aid certificate amounted to a blank cheque — unlimited resources which most unrepresented Respondents would be hard - pressed to match.

A senior immigration tribunal judge has spoken out about the problems dealing with appeals from unrepresented appellants when Home Office caseworkers seek to defend «unsustainable» decisions on appeal.

However, as orders under s. 9 (1) of the FLA can affect the rights of unknown and unrepresented third parties, such remedies should not be imposed «indiscriminately» or «routinely» and should only be used if the record justifies such «exceptional and intrusive action.»

inform unrepresented consumers of the risks of dealing with a licensee who is representing another party to the transaction;

That's because unrepresented buyers often go to open houses, which means potential new business for your agent.

As a critical, rational thinker with a deep scientific understanding of the universe, I am completely unrepresented in our supposed representative democracy.

Of the minor parties, the far - right British National party were the most unrepresented.

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