SOC 3730 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Personal Injury

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3730
• Professor: Michelle Dumas

Document Summary

We know with the current system that the outcome of this independence is to protect the interests of the dominant groups. The general label of how this situation came about is known as (cid:498)party capability theory(cid:499) Theoretically, a large part of the courts" workload is derived from a relatively. Party capability and the trial courts narrow number of areas. Some times of persons and groups are more likely to use the courts to resolve disputes. Business organizations were the most frequent plaintiffs, in debt or over contract related matters and next were those that were involved in a wide variety of cases. Men are the most often chosen in terms of defendants by each category of plaintiffs. In general, organizations are uniformly more success than individual litigants, and governments significantly more successful than business. Thus, parties who have lawyers do better but it does not better odds for several reasons: Organizations are more likely to be represented than individuals.