This is a further, but eminently sensible, erosion of the principle of orality.

This hallmark principle of orality, that truth emerges best from communal process, resonates today in the jury system.

The principle of orality clearly belongs to an age in which the speedy production of multiple copies of documents was a slow labour-intensive exercise.

The issue raised by these developments is whether the principle of orality upon which English trials and appeals proceed is the best way of dealing with appeals.

The principle of orality was considered to contribute to unanimity in decision making because of the thorough sifting and testing of argument in unrestricted oral argument.