Sentences with phrase «non-adversarial inquisitorial»

Not exact matches

Thus the belief that issue estoppel can not apply to family proceedings is shown to be «absurd»; and, in passing, Lord Neuberger allies himself with the minority in Re L (led by Lord Nicholls) who had been so disparaging — the «beguiling term inquisitorial» — of the non-adversarial system espoused by the majority.

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.