They were connoisseurs of the adversarial procedure.

Given the adversarial procedures of the Court it is not surprising that it defined a dispute in bilateral terms.

Apparently, even the limited adversarial procedures of normal criminal law have been abbreviated under the martial law courts.

"It's barely an adversarial procedure," I said.

According to him: the benefits of democracy are mostly formal, that is to say related to the public and adversarial procedure that accompanies the decision.

In addition, adversarial procedure defenders argue that the inquisitorial court systems are overly institutionalized and removed from the average citizen.

"We would need state and city approval," said Mr. Grimshaw, indicating that it would be a highly adversarial procedure.

In the fields of comparative law and legal history, he is best known for his critique of the common-law jury and adversarial procedure, which he considers inferior to the Continental alternatives, especially the German system.

First, psychometrically based test instruments such as Wechsler-Bellevue and the Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory, as well as projective techniques, such as the Rorschach and thematic apperception tests, were neither psychometrically formulated nor clinically constructed for the adversarial procedure.

Michael R. Dreeben, a deputy solicitor general arguing for the government, said the "overarching goal" of the Sixth Amendment was "to secure a fair trial, conducted in accordance with adversary procedures."

"We are spending a lot of money in adversarial proceedings," she said.

An interview, especially one with a political figure, has hints of an adversarial proceeding.

The court reaches a different result after adversarial proceedings.

We are not prosecutors, and this is not an adversarial proceeding.

Judge Chin ruled that the privilege was reserved for adversarial proceedings.

There is also a built-in problem with the summary jury trial's nature as an adversarial proceeding.

Once she did, it was clear that this was no adversarial proceeding, with one side shouting at the other.

The mechanism provides an opportunity for constructive dialogue between the state and the committee rather than acting as adversarial proceedings.

The American approach is an adversarial proceeding using advocates committed to each side who would present the evidence on both sides before an impartial panel.

Many of the cases are adversarial proceedings requiring detailed legal attention along with time-consuming hearings, depositions and research.

He said the ethical code applied only to judges in adversarial proceedings, not when they appoint an independent counsel.

"The meeting is not an adversarial proceeding.

The King's Court, through its writs, held ultimate jurisdiction in adversarial proceedings over real property.

Courts-martial are adversarial proceedings, as are all United States criminal courts.

Only the adversarial proceedings of a court-martial could satisfactorily determine accountability - not just the commander's, but the Navy's as well.

Benrishi were allowed to represent clients in adversarial proceedings before customs courts and in arbitration.

The Sixth Amendment's right to counsel attaches when adversarial proceedings begin (i.e. at the arraignment).

"In an adversarial proceeding, you get a lawyer and I get a lawyer and we beat each over the head until somebody falls down," he said.

In some jurisdictions, the trial judge may participate in the fact-finding inquiry by questioning witnesses even in adversarial proceedings.

Senator Heflin, a former chief justice of Alabama, repeatedly tells the lawyers: "This is not an adversarial proceeding; we have wide latitude."

Litigation privilege is only engaged in the context of adversarial proceedings, which excludes investigative or inquisitorial proceedings, such as family law care proceedings.

He concluded that lobbying the White House for a presidential pardon, as Mr. Rich's lawyers did, was not an adversarial proceeding and had no real opposition.

"We recognize that there is strong sentiment held by some parties," Mr. Giordano wrote, "that it is necessary to engage in adversarial proceedings at this time.

As an accused is not compelled to give evidence in a criminal adversarial proceeding, he may not be questioned by prosecutor or judge unless he chooses to do so.

In adversarial proceedings in court, where opposing sides each hire psychiatrists who then provide conflicting diagnoses, Dr. Tassinari said the results looked "silly, absurd" to the public.