pre-trial procedure

About one case in 25 goes through all the pre-trial procedure and is set down for trial.

In September 2012, the pre-trial procedure had not been completed yet by the Police.

After extensive negotiations and pre-trial procedures, all parties to the claim moved for judgment as a matter of law.

Much of the court involvement through the pre-trial procedures is through masters rather than judges.

It is an informal pre-trial procedure, inquisitorial in nature, and may be held in a court or any other suitable place.

Consequently the parties to an action will not be as free to use pre-trial procedure to their own ends, delaying trials where that is advantageous.

Consequently, the Civil Justice Review recommends that there be greater openness in pre-trial procedure.

This means in turn that lawyers trained in the civil law tradition find it difficult to characterise certain features of common law pre-trial procedures.

Third, was to secure changes in the rules relating to pre-trial procedures because of the increasing number of detainees and the length of trials.

If an expensive court, barristers and pre-trial procedure do not have to be paid for, it must be the case that permitting the parties to agree between themselves is cheaper.

The orthodox view of civil pre-trial procedure is that the more the two parties know about the real issues between them the more likely it is that a 'realistic' settlement can be reached.

In the result, therefore, there may be foreign pre-trial procedures available to the parties which will enable them to overcome the limitations on the territorial scope of the procedures normally available in England.

Yet between the recognition of a dispute which may end in a trial and its actual arrival before the judge lies a lengthy period of negotiation before or during the operation of the formal pre-trial procedure.

The Civil Justice Review recommended that a system of court control of case progress should be introduced in an effort to reduce the delay produced by pre-trial procedure, which is the major area of delay.

SLOMFP was traumatized by an alleged embezzlement of $31,000 by their former treasurer, who was prosecuted and appeared in SLO criminal court in November for pre-trial procedures.

We begin, however, with an examination of a recommendation which, when introduced, will take much of the control of pre-trial procedure out of the hands of the parties and place it under the control of the court.

In its investigation of the trial, the Senate Committee on Armed Services came to the conclusion of improper pre-trial procedures, including a mock trial, but not torture as sometimes stated, had indeed affected the trial process.

Typically, state trial courts of limited jurisdiction have generally similar rules to state trial courts of general jurisdiction, but stripped of rules applicable to special cases like class actions and most pre-trial procedures (such as non-court ordered discovery).

I therefore support this proposal for a framework decision on the European supervision order in pre-trial procedures, which should allow the mutual recognition of pre-trial supervision measures, enabling suspects to return to their Member State of residence during the investigation stage.

Several of these rights regulate pre-trial procedure: access to a non-excessive bail, the right to indictment by a grand jury, the right to an information (charging document), the right to a speedy trial, and the right to be tried in a specific venue.

Sentence was subsequently commuted to life imprisonment and later to time served, following an investigation conducted by the US Senate Armed Services Committee which concluded that improper pre-trial procedures by US authorities had unfairly affected the trial process.

For example, in the various stages of pre-trial procedure the party who is ultimately successful may have caused undue delay or not followed the proper procedure and been penalised at that time by the award of costs against him or her in respect of a particular hearing.

Trials in these courts are often held only after extensive pre-trial procedures that in more than 90% of cases lead to a default judgment in a civil case, an agreed resolution settling the case, or pre-trial resolution of the case by a judge on the merits.

The complexity of pre-trial procedure, particularly in the High Court, has been said to act not only as a deterrent to all but the most determined litigant, but also as a weapon for the recalcitrant defendant who may manipulate it so as to place the pressure of delay upon the plaintiff.