protracted litigation

collocation in English

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protracted
adjective
uk
/prəˈtræk.tɪd/us
/prəˈtræk.tɪd/
lasting for a long time or made to last longer ...
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litigation
noun[U]
uk
/ˌlɪt.ɪˈɡeɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌlɪt̬.əˈɡeɪ.ʃən/
the process of taking a case to a court of law so that a judgment can ...
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There should be a way of offering compensation without the expense ofprotractedlitigation.
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Protractedlitigationwill arise in every case.
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If the law were simplified, there would, presumably, be lessprotractedlitigationand the costs of litigation could be reduced.
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According to my advice,protractedlitigationand appeals, often resulting in the overturning of industrial tribunal findings, have been quite common.
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A fault based system leads toprotractedlitigation.
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A fault-based system leads toprotractedlitigation.
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All that should give us pause for serious thought, especially about the validity of the advice tendered by the lawyers, who had a clear financial interest inprotractedlitigation.
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In order that there should be no doubt about that, and to prevent expensive and very oftenprotractedlitigation, we say that an application may be made for a certificate.
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It will lead to costly andprotractedlitigation, especially if there is no public body able to give advice and to help the courts and tribunals in their daily work.
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If authorities can continue to do so and the lawyers who offer the advice have a direct interest inprotractedlitigation, public funds could be spent on a huge scale.
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The letter refers to his belief that the measure would lead to "moreprotractedlitigationrather than a higher ratio of success for applicants seeking to prove unlawful discrimination".
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In recent years the congregation became divided on religious issues and the buildings and property of the congregation became the subject ofprotractedlitigation.
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In the early 1890s, those claims became involved inprotractedlitigation.
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The settlement offer seeks to avoid costly andprotractedlitigation.
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