Sentences with phrase «inquisitorial processes»

Gerald Heckman, «Inquisitorial Approaches to Refugee Protection Decision - making: the Australian Experience and Possible Lessons for Canada» in Laverne Jacobs & Sasha Baglay, eds, The Nature of Inquisitorial Processes in Administrative Regimes — Global Perspectives (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing, 2013).

While I suspect there will always be a need for authoritarian and perhaps adversarial court processes to address truly intractable individuals and problems of genuine urgency, I worry that a reconceptualization of the system may call for more than triage processes and the co-locatation of social services, both of which are reconfigurations of existing services, but may demand a fundamental reconsideration of our basic assumptions and a critically examination of alternatives such as inquisitorial processes, abridged trial procedures, non-adversarial judging techniques, the embedding of mental health professionals in decision - making processes and so forth.

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

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

Questions such as how is the justice system to operate an inquisitorial process effectively need to be considered... What effect would it have on the structure of our courts, and courts administration?

Have there been any appeals claiming want of fundamental justice or procedural justice based on the abridged or inquisitorial process?

Not exact matches

Though the Act was amended after about nine years and the inquisitorial and opinion forming aspect of the process was removed, I believe this model is a precedent for a better way of handling most offensive and unwelcome sexual behaviour, in any area, especially where there were prior relationships between the parties or will be on going relationships.

alternatively, decision - makers could adopt an inquisitorial approach and take an involved, hands - on approach to the management of pre-hearing and hearing processes;

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.»

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».

An inquest held in public is an inquisitorial, not adversarial, process and the coroner can reasonably be expected to carry out a proper investigation without the assistance of counsel for victims» families; the refusal of legal aid was therefore not irrational.

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