Sentences with phrase «used by defence lawyers»

In the past few years, Morton's technique has been enthusiastically used by defence lawyers in Britain seeking to cast doubt over confessions allegedly made by their clients.

Legal analyst Joshua Rozenberg told the BBC that Keir Starmer and the MPs» joint statement implied that the issue of Parliamentary privilege might be used by defence lawyers.

Not exact matches

In a 34 - page defence filed in the Federal Court in Melbourne on Monday, lawyers for Coles rejected key claims by the ACCC, which launched legal action in May, alleging that Coles used unfair tactics and misleading information to force about 200 suppliers to pay additional and ongoing rebates to participate in the program known as Active Retail Collaboration.

The filmmakers seem intent upon using every legal drama cliché in the book: the smarmy opposing counsel, the defence lawyer who has trouble reconciling if the person they're defending is truly guilty, and the heartfelt and powerful summation by both parties.

If you do admit any degree of fault at an accident scene to another driver, a witness or the police who may attend then these such statements / admissions are only used against you in Court by skilled ICBC adjusters and ICBC - appointed defence lawyers.

This tactic is often used by ICBC defence lawyers as a result of ICBC's Low Velocity Impact (LVI) policy.

There are a number of common defences used by insurance adjusters and lawyers in personal injury cases; a knowledgeable personal injury lawyer can help you successfully navigate these hurdles.

The immediate reaction should not be to start using an app, but to call an experienced criminal defence lawyer (as you are permitted by law and our constitution to do so).

The complainant refused to allow the son to see D.P. Defence lawyer Joseph Neuberger was hired and obtained all of the family court documents and used the filed affidavits by the complainant to establish material inconsistencies between her statement to police and the family court filings.

When these claims are prosecuted one of the strategies often used by ICBC defence lawyers is to try to have the trial focus on the amount of vehicle damage sustained in the collision.

Further, the defence investigation, including the use of a private investigator hired by defence lawyer Joseph Neuberger, produced photographs of the alleged crime scene and surrounding area, which assisted in undermining the evidence of the complainant.

What I want to look at briefly, therefore, is the law of self - defence in what lawyers euphemistically refer to as «householder cases» — where force is used by a householder against a trespasser in a dwelling.

There was recently and exposé by the Globe and Mail of how defence lawyers are using «tainted» medical doctors in Ontario: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/investigations/doctors-insurance-independent-medical-examinations/article37141790/.

By keeping abreast of developments in both law and other sectors such as finance and psychology, our lawyers are able to use multidimensional insights in engineering an effective defence for our clients.

The object and meaning of the rule is this: that as, by reason of the complexity and difficulty of our law, litigation can only be properly conducted by professional men, it is absolutely necessary that a man, in order to prosecute his rights or to defend himself from an improper claim, should have recourse to the assistance of professional lawyers,... to use a vulgar phrase, that he should be able to make a clean breast of it to the gentleman whom he consults with a view to the prosecution of his claim, or the substantiating of his defence... that he should be able to place unrestricted and unbounded confidence in the professional agent, and that the communications he so makes to him should be kept secret, unless with his consent (for it is his privilege, and not the privilege of the confidential agent), that he should be enabled properly to conduct his litigation.