Where the state moves for civil forfeiture and establishes a prima facie case that the property is subject to forfeiture, the burden shifts to the claimant to establish that it is not.

On Tuesday, the Business Law Committee of the Orange County Bar Association held a program featuring Judges Chad Alvaro, ...

Pennsylvania law allows verdict winners in cases involving property damage, bodily injury, or death to request delay damages ...

"Nothing in Rule 8(b) permits a party to refuse to respond to an allegation because it purportedly is a 'legal conclusion' or ...

Speaker Raja Pervaiz Ashraf administered the oath. The Code of Civil Procedure (Amendment) Bill, 2023 was introduced in the House. Parliamentary Secretary on Federal Education and Professional ...

Where a party seeks transfer under forum non conveniens, the relative convenience to nonparty witnesses must be given consideration.

Vol. 625, Issue. , p. 261. Since the start of the new millennium, many contemporary jurisdictions have been revisiting the fundamental principles of their civil procedures. Even the core areas of the ...

I was recently in court with a complex domestic litigation matter. My client was the “respondent” which, in family law ...

At the stroke of midnight and by the time the last verse of “Auld Lang Syne” has been sung, the newly revised Rules of Civil ...

This book discusses the impact of EU law on selected national legal systems. The authors analyse how the civil procedure system of their country has reacted to increasing Europeanisation and influence ...

Raising a counterclaim is a procedural issue and depends on the party against whom a claim is raised before the rent control ...

The CPC, which lays down the procedure of civil suits, may be strengthened by inserting timelines to the law, and replicating ...