Sentences with phrase «inquisitorial role»

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»).

The expert would be placed in an inquisitorial role, and would generate a report identifying the deficiencies, if any.

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

Not exact matches

Then came Edgerton v Edgerton and Shaikh [2012] EWCA Civ 181, [2012] All ER (D) 172 (Feb) in which Lord Neuberger MR again — in passing, only, on this occasion — consigned a family lawyer's assumption to the same dustbin as «Hildebrand rules»: «[36][The judge below] thought that, as the court in the ancillary relief proceedings had an inquisitorial, or quasi-inquisitorial (as Thorpe LJ put it in Parra v Parra [2002] EWCA Civ 1886, para 22), role, the normal rules as to issue estoppel did not apply.