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US
/ˈɫɪtɪɡənt/
]
[ UK /lˈɪtɪɡənt/ ]
[ UK /lˈɪtɪɡənt/ ]
NOUN
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(law) a party to a lawsuit; someone involved in litigation
plaintiffs and defendants are both litigants
How To Use litigant In A Sentence
- The poor litigant will wait for the somnolescent process and leisurely pronouncement and the wealthy litigant will have his case speedily terminated. The Hindu - Front Page
- A case involving an unrepresented litigant can take 2 or 3 times longer to complete than one where the parties are represented.
- It indemnifies successful litigants for the cost of litigation.
- The role is usually taken by a lay person who advises litigants acting on their own. Times, Sunday Times
- Yet litigants appeared reluctant to do without their services and utilize those of ‘freebie’ stipendiaries provided by Parliamentary legislation in 1792.
- This one-sided provision has created bad incentives for attorneys and the litigants they represent.
- We do not have the luxury of the system, which can provide instant access to litigants, in terms of courtrooms, judges and jury panels.
- That aside, Professor Paulsen's post fails to recognize that there is value in stare decisis from a litigants 'perspective. Balkinization
- So, The Prosecutor Institution has the legal status of special litigant in lawsuit.
- We don't know, because the Act also permits the litigant and his lawyers to be excluded from the court.