[WikiEN-l] ArbCom - too attached to 'equal treatment'?

Mon Mar 7 02:15:18 UTC 2005

on 3/6/05 5:25 PM, Ray Saintonge at saintonge at telus.net wrote:

>> 
> Countersuits are a normal part of the civil judicial process, but not of
> the criminal process.  They provide for the limited right of the
> respondent to raise issues against his accuser.  It does not operate to
> allow the court to initiate new complaints, nor does it allow for third
> party meddling.
> 
> Ec

But it is not the court that initiates countersuits but the respondent.
That's where we're getting it wrong. 