on 3/6/05 5:25 PM, Ray Saintonge at saintonge(a)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.
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But it is not the court that initiates countersuits but the respondent.
That's where we're getting it wrong.