Sentence examples for litigants for from inspiring English sources

They settled with the hacking victim Gordon Taylor and two other litigants for a total of about a million pounds in return for their silence.

But in this case, it is unclear which side should play that role, a question that has been the subject of much backstage maneuvering among the litigants for strategic advantage.

This necessarily limits the application of the Chevron Oil test, to the effect that it may not distinguish between litigants for choice-of-law purposes on the particular equities of their claims to prospectivity.

He even offered to represent some litigants for free.

"If you lose, the Crown has adopted a policy of pursuing unsuccessful litigants for its costs.

Local lawyers serve as intermediaries between judges and litigants for obtaining favorable judgments for significant "attorney's fees".

This case requires us to explore the scope of the inherent power of a federal court to sanction a litigant for bad-faith conduct.

The report referred to one judge who threatened a litigant for not adhering to a court order, writing to him on court stationery, "Remember, I know where you live".

Nevertheless, as disturbing a book as "Doing Justice" is, it should be read by every prospective litigant for its vivid portrait of the unfortunate way in which some judges judge.

The abstention which equity exercises, as it should here, under the shorthand phrase of the 'clean hands doctrine' is not due to any desire to punish a litigant for his uncleanlines.

In holding that the 1860 Act was not unconstitutionally vague the State Superior and Supreme Courts rested largely on the declaration that the Act 'is not a penal statute' but simply provides machinery for the collection of costs of a 'civil character' analogous to imposing costs in civil cases 'not as a penalty but rather as compensation to a litigant for expenses.