Sentences with word «inquisitorial»

The modern realities of the trial penalty (where defendants get 10 + more years for a crime because they go to trial), and the fact that 95 % of all convictions are from pleas, shows in another way how our justice system has become a (prosecutor - controlled) inquisitorial system of criminal justice.

In the US, through the Committee and other Senatorial Hearings, inquisitorial processes of the highest order are held with autonomy, authority and assertiveness.

There have been recommendations for increased mediation and arguments for a more inquisitorial approach.

«Many hearings are having to become far more inquisitorial in nature as opposed to the traditional adversarial process,» he says.

The drive to cut costs is threatening to undermine our adversarial system and give judges a more inquisitorial role (see my article «Justice in the balance»).

Throughout medieval times, the papacy gave bishops across Europe inquisitorial power to extend the enforcement of Catholicism.

Inquisitorial prisons had high standards for the times and were inspected several times a year — indeed, there is evidence that some prisoners in secular prisons deliberately made blasphemous remarks or announced they were heretics in order to be transferred to the care of the Inquisition.

As opposed to, for example, a military tribunal or inquisitorial court.

This led the Lord Chief Justice, in a recent speech, to say that careful consideration should be given to the possibility of a move to a more inquisitorial procedure.

The reason links to my work seeking cert in US v. Faulks (details here) and my concern with huge «trial penalties» (details here), and take me back to my long - ago insights about what Blakely is really about: a battle between an adversarial and inquisitorial model of criminal justice.

Anywhere Out Of The Book is an editorial and curatorial project by Marseille - based project space Rond - Point Projects intended to explore the subversive and inquisitorial potentials of art, fiction and poetry.

A common law trier of fact is not trying to determine what the facts objectively are: they are magisterial, not inquisitorial.

I would like to respectfully disagree with the fundamental premise underlying your statement, «If Blakely is about preferring adversarial to inquisitorial sentencing procedures and if the Framers wanted juries rather than judges to control sentencing, then are indeterminate sentencing systems unconstitutional?»

He noted that there has been «a significant increase in the number of litigants in person» due in part to the retrenchment in state expenditure and the relatively high cost of legal fees, and suggested «introducing a more inquisitorial form of process in civil proceedings where both or at least one party is unrepresented.»

In the oversimplified binaries of that confrontation, some conservative Christians felt that their country had been taken away from them and that their faith was under attack, while some secularists felt under their feet the rumble of Inquisitorial dungeons and feared full - blown theocracy whenever Christianity assumed a public presence or influence.

Invisible things like patriotism, rituals like pledging allegiance to the flag and inquisitorial rules like the DHS has about boarding planes?

He doesn't mention the Staplehurst trials — primary sources are not really his thing — but he does pick up the nonbeliever noted by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie in Montaillou, the celebrated exposition of medieval inquisitorial records.

«I find this whole thing inquisitorial,» said Ritts.

Inquisitorial insights If you have a witness who ought to be able to defend the organisation they are in charge of then you ought to give them a hard time.

Thus this small inquisitorial experiment had failed to support the theory that, at the end of the day, scientists of goodwill would come together to underpin the search for truth.

The scientific inquisitorial solution to the nagging doubts over miscarriages of justice may, after all, turn out to be an attractive mirage.

This first in the series of «Inquisitorial Logs», titled «Mass Destruction», covers a couple of features, the -LSB-...]

Also players can join various Inquisitorial clans.

Inquisitorial Cabals are groups of Inquisitors working together.

Fischl «looks» in the intrusive and inquisitorial manner of Degas, with the erotic eye of Balthus and makes with an enviable facility that connects him to a lineage of painter / sculptors that includes Picasso and Matisse.

Especially if it took a less adversarial, perhaps inquisitorial?

The more inquisitorial character of the proceedings emerges from the regulations governing criminal expert opinions: in most countries, the criminal court may appoint a judicial expert of its own motion and is not bound by the requests of the parties (England again being an exception on the last point where all the parties are agreed).

Where a family is without legal representation, arbitration hearings would be conducted on a non-adversarial inquisitorial basis; otherwise, hearings would proceed in a court - like manner with the assistance of lawyers.

Justifications for retaining the present inquisitorial approach appear non-existent, as the need for confidentiality has been rendered largely superfluous by the recent opening - up of care proceedings, and the best method for obtaining the truth on abuse must surely be in the best interests of a child, who may wrongly forever believe that they were so abused by their natural parents that a court ordered the child's adoption.

The resulting code is the basis of the modern so - called «inquisitorial system» of criminal courts, used in France and many civil law countries, though significantly changed since Bonaparte's day (especially with regard to the expansion of the rights of the defendant).

American discovery follows the common law adversary process, not the civil law's inquisitorial process, yet DOJ seeks to be the inquisitor.

Without lawyers the judge inevitably had to take a proactive, inquisitorial role.

The Migration Law Research Cluster (MLRC) presents: «Inquisitorial approaches to refugee determination — lessons for Canada from the Australian experience»

Rond - Point Projects (FR): Anywhere out of the Book 13.05 — 20.05 Anywhere Out Of The Book is an editorial and curatorial project by Marseille - based project space Rond - Point Projects intended to explore the subversive and inquisitorial potentials of art, fiction and poetry.

If Blakely is about preferring adversarial to inquisitorial sentencing procedures, and if the Framers wanted juries rather than judges to control sentencing, then are indeterminate sentencing systems unconstitutional?

Lord Thomas acknowledged that moves towards a more inquisitorial form of process have been discussed previously and that some see it as «a form of process alien to our adversarial tradition», which «can not properly be accommodated within it».

They tend to be more inquisitorial.

The accused was taken to an inquisitorial prison and his or her property was confiscated until sentence was passed.

The inquisitorial process consisted of a series of hearings, in which both the denouncers and the defendant gave testimony.

The ceremonies kicked off with a procession on the evening before, in which the Green Cross and olive branches (the Inquisitorial «logo») were carried to the main square and prayers were said.

Fairly soon he asked the high priest for authority to become an «apostle» to the synagogues at Damascus, in order to continue his inquisitorial work there.