"meritorious case" is correct and can be used in written English.
It means a case that is deserving of praise or recognition for its merits or qualities. Example: The lawyer had a difficult time finding evidence to support his client's claim, but eventually he was able to build a strong and meritorious case.
"We certainly want to send the message," Mr. Cardozo said, "that if you don't bring what we view to be a meritorious case, you're going to have a big battle on your hands".
The result is that it is relatively easy for an investor with a meritorious case to find a contingent-fee attorney to handle it, even if it is a small case.
Elsewhere, she said an attorney can expect that with good preparation and a meritorious case, the judge will grant relief.
But distancing the right by providing only "access" to it raises the spectre that the principle would tolerate the provision of remedial process that falls short of a remedy even in a meritorious case.
We want to believe that a truly meritorious case will somehow float its way to a just resolution, perhaps on the winds of benevolence -- the corporation will recognize the gravity of its wrong and offer to make amends; the judge will recognize a deserving victim's lack of sophistication and act to prevent her from being crushed by litigation tactics; the truth will, somehow, come out.
The effect of this is to transform what was intended as a minor check on groundless applications into a major barrier in some meritorious cases.
"Having the ability to rely on admissions by corporate defendants in government actions will help insure that meritorious cases are not dismissed on technical procedural grounds".
"How many meritorious cases might there be out there in the hands of innocence projects and how many more referrals might we have been able to make if we had seen more applications from them?" Robinson asked the INUK delegates.
After all, to reduce the costs of suits, one must understand what types of cases are brought and how all payouts — not just payouts in meritorious cases — can be reduced.
But Professor Cox and other experts say that the number of cases filed is an inadequate measure, and one can just as easily conclude that "a lot of meritorious cases that should have gone forward haven't, particularly in light of the speculative bubble and tremendous number of earnings restatements".
It is equally sensible to restrict legal aid to meritorious cases where there is a good chance of success and to allow only qualified firms to undertake such work.The Law Society's campaign ignores the fact that millions of people, many just above the poverty threshold of entitlement to legal aid, are currently excluded from civil justice altogether.
