Costs for restaurants are increased by litigation accusing them of causing obesity.

C. Initiation of judicial proceedings

lower risk of litigation,

And they've been faced with a lot of lawsuits, but those lawsuits are usually not won by fashion designers.

Of those larger claims, it was suggested that most settle, often to avoid the potentially huge litigation costs involved in pursuing a claim.

Legal proceedings have been opened against opposition parties.

Several have been subject to enormous suits and enormous payouts.

Representing the South African Government in international litigation and dispute settlement

That is the last four years of lawsuits in the realm of smartphones.

Even when developing country governments win the suits (which have proliferated greatly in the last 15 years), the litigation costs are huge.

According to China s Ministry of Land Resources, there were more than 90,000 cases of illegal land transfers last year, yet there were precious few prosecutions.

The credit ratings agencies have been held accountable in two private suits.

Additional advantages of providing for exclusive jurisdiction clauses in the draft instrument were said to be a potential reduction of the number of possible jurisdictions in the case of multiple suits, particularly in the absence of concursus provisions, and a reduction in the risk of forum shopping.

I'm going to fast forward through a lot of lawsuits and a lot of community engagement.

In the absence of reliable courts, they cannot sue to enforce their rules.

For example, women could not fully participate under their own names in legal proceedings.

But suits and countersuits are not how we imagined the EU working when we struggled to join it.

Women were granted equal rights with men to participate in every stage of the judicial process.

Prosecutions of settlers are rare, and it seems that settlers are able to terrorize Palestinians and destroy their land with impunity.

Similarly, the approved appropriations for the second year of the current biennium are updated to result in the estimates required for the second year of the proposed biennium.

However, the growing number of legal cases has increased the institution's workload.

Administrative restrictions on lawyers were tightened to discourage class action or multiple plaintiff suits typically cases against arbitrary or corrupt government actions and to facilitate local authorities intervention and control over cases.

B. Monitoring of the costs of the longer term modification of the pension adjustment system

Local courts, whose judges are appointed and paid by the local government, often simply refuse to file cases that challenge official decisions.

The enactment of the Administrative Litigation Law in 1990 enabled Chinese citizens to file lawsuits against local governments and public agencies.

The number of lawsuits against the government has ballooned to more than 100,000 per year, with plaintiffs winning more than one third of the cases.

Ahmet Misbah, the Mayor of Beyoglu district and a member of the ruling AKP (Justice) party argues that such judicial experiences prevent the modernisation of the city.

Civil actions

Criminal actions

Based on the consideration of this issue at the fourteenth session of the Working Group, it was therefore suggested that a provision on concursus should be introduced in the draft instrument to provide for removal of actions to the jurisdiction where the first action had been instituted.

The report concludes with a series of annexes containing additional case studies, summaries of sanctions related litigation and other supplementary information.

And then there are the many families who did not even participate in the class action suits, because they had never given up hope of some day getting their land back.

Even more problematic reasons include lower risk of litigation, less rigorous ethical reviews, and populations that are willing to participate in almost any study that hints at a cure.

It would place the risk of lawsuits where it should fall, i.e., on the entity rather than solely on the individual carrying out mandated tasks.

3. Criminal actions

liabilities, that's hard to get a grasp on.

On this view, if investors were able to take raters to court, raters incentives would improve.

Many of its candidates seek office not to work for Ukraine s betterment, but to gain parliamentary immunity from prosecution.

8.5 The same applied in relation to the argument that actions are pending in the Federal Court and in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.

2. Civil actions for recovery

C. Civil actions for recovery

Of the 219 known international arbitration cases concerning investment projects, some two thirds were initiated during the past three years.

Thailand believes that alternative measures, which include restorative justice, are necessary not only to decrease caseload but also to avoid the possible adverse effects of incarceration.

MINUGUA also issued a report on the state of the judicial processes in cases of the more than 600 massacres confirmed by the Historical Clarification Commission in its final report.

More importantly, an effective mechanism for follow up of claims and or litigation must be put in place since it appears that such a mechanism is now lacking.