Smith, who handles mergers and acquisitions, said those contracts contain language that includes a waiver of a
jury trial if a dispute arises.
It also contains unique insight and advice from the bench--the do's and don'ts of a civil
jury trial lawyer.
The declining number of
jury trials in both state and federal courts and in civil and criminal cases can undermine public confidence in the judicial system and decrease the skills of lawyers and judges when they actually do have a trial.
We should not view the right to a
jury trial as sacrosanct.
As the
jury trial vanishes, the opportunity for Joe Citizen to appreciate personally the wonder that is our jury system has disappeared along with it.
in Trial Advocacy, the program provides extensive instruction and practical hands-on experience in criminal prosecution, oral advocacy and
jury trial advocacy.
After the plaintiffs filed suit, the litigation proceeded to a
jury trial, although the seller did not demand a
jury trial in her answer.
11 of the Charter stipulates the right to a
jury trial only in criminal law situations where the maximum punishment is imprisonment of five years or more.
23) The Court did not include prior convictions among the "facts" that the prosecution must establish beyond a reasonable doubt because such verdicts rest on trials equipped with all constitutionally-mandated procedural protections, including due process and the
jury trial guarantee.
A demand for a
jury trial is made 'after [rather than at] the commencement of the action and not later than 10 days after the service of the last pleading directed to [an issue triable of right by a jury].
The peculiarities of the fin-de-siecle criminal
jury trial, and indeed modern French legal method more generally, owe a great deal to their revolutionary origins.
