The committee system, which was designed to be inquisitorial and to scrutinise ministers, was neutered. |
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Like most of Latin America, Chile inherited an inquisitorial legal system from Spain. |
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It is a necessary concomitant or consequence of this particular system which is an inquisitorial system, rather than a strict adversary system. |
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Britain could be forced to give up its adversarial court system in favour of the inquisitorial style favoured in much of continental Europe. |
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I can therefore make the submission that the pre-trial procedure in the Hong Kong Magistrate is inquisitorial. |
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The absence of an accusatorial procedure places an inquisitorial burden upon an inspector. |
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Continental procedure is quite different, as it is inquisitorial rather than accusatorial. |
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He sat on the right, facing the inquisitorial gaze of a packed auditorium, under the interrogatory glare of stage lighting. |
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The Inquiry we are conducting is inquisitorial and not adversarial in tone, content or character. |
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Our inquiry is inquisitorial, it is not adversarial in conduct or indeed character. |
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He was a huge man with the innocent eyes of a deer, and he was almost weeping as he defended himself against Bobby's inquisitorial arguments. |
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He never interrogated anyone in inquisitorial fashion about their beliefs and condemned them, but was able to look into their hearts. |
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I need the opinion-drivers in the country to do a less inquisitorial job and to give us a hand on this thing. |
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Even the inquisitorial bishops and curia officials granted that he had written a virtual summa. |
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There was barely an inquisitorial question from any of them, and who cares about the ground rules? |
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The British version depends partly on the audience's playing along with the show's somber, inquisitorial mood. |
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Opponents of implementing the inquisitorial system argue the efficacy of the adversarial system. |
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Croatia reformed its civil procedure in legislation of 14 July 2003, which replaced inquisitorial with adversarial proceedings in civil cases. |
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What prevents American journalists from being equally inquisitorial? |
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I fully expected to find someone broken by inquisitorial pressure. |
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The Commission's investigation is a behind-closed-doors process and is inquisitorial, rather than adversarial, in nature. |
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Rather than extending Watergate's inquisitorial culture, it may represent the end of the idealism on which that culture was based. |
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The atmosphere here is more inquisitorial than at the other meeting. |
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However, in some countries the courts use the inquisitorial principle in review of appeals. |
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So Rangel, bereft of that narrative, chose instead to question the intelligence of a pesky, inquisitorial journalist. |
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Secondly, he entirely rejects Scott's argument that in an inquisitorial procedure the distinction between examination-in-chief and cross-examination is unimportant. |
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He has said he also wants to take a far more fundamental look at whether there is a case for moving towards a more continental-style inquisitorial system in terrorist cases. |
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It is high time that Europe admits this geopolitical feature by quickly ceasing its futile inquisitorial campaigns. |
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Through this important process, the new criminal procedural code had gone from inquisitorial to an adversarial system. |
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In most civil law jurisdictions, courts function under an inquisitorial system. |
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The form of trial might well be rather inquisitorial than accusatorial and real expression given to the idea that the accused is innocent until the court has convicted him. |
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Panama was moving from an inquisitorial system to an accusatorial system, under which would mean fewer custodial sentences, since only those who had already been sentenced would be incarcerated. |
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Although early inquisitorial practices in some instances moved toward institutionalization, only those of the 16th century displayed full institutional characteristics. |
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It also intended to turn the PGR into an independent prosecution service and to reform the judicial system, moving to adversarial oral trials in place of the current inquisitorial approach using written evidence. |
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The criminal process is regulated by the Code of Criminal Procedure which entered into force in 1878 and which is of a clearly inquisitorial nature. |
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As well, it should be noted that civilian and inquisitorial models of criminal justice rest on assumptions and procedures which differ, fundamentally, from those that describe common law jurisdictions. |
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Instead, the inquisitorial model is being used to have adjudicators inquire into what happened, using their skills and judgment to question witnesses to determine the facts. |
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We should recognize the need to shift to a more inquisitorial procedure in such cases, with the judge examining witnesses, proving documents, retaining experts, suggesting possible arguments to the parties, etc. |
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For that reason, and also due to gaps in the information, the discussion in this Chapter can only offer a bare survey on the status of victims in legal syst ems which are either civilian or inquisitorial in nature. |
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On the contrary, in many inquisitorial systems, the evidence is selected beforehand by the investigating judge, as an impartial judicial authority present during the investigation and pretrial phases of the proceedings. |
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Unless otherwise agreed by the parties, the arbitral tribunal may adopt an inquisitorial or adversarial approach when examining the case, having regard to the circumstances of the case. |
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Fifth, where one party is represented and the other is unrepresented, it may be wise to give the unrepresented claimant the choice of procedure: the conventional adversary rules or the unrepresented, more inquisitorial route. |
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The low standard of evidence used in the trial also violated inquisitorial rules. |
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In inquisitorial systems of criminal investigation, a judge might also be an examining magistrate. |
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It is not a function of Tribunals to administer justice, their work is solely inquisitorial. |
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Some legal scholars consider inquisitorial misleading, and prefer the word nonadversarial. |
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It was through this movement that the role of an inquisitorial system became enshrined in most European civilian legal systems. |
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It would be too much of a generalization to state that the civil law is purely inquisitorial and the common law adversarial. |
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Indeed, the ancient Roman custom of arbitration has now been adapted in many common law jurisdictions to a more inquisitorial form. |
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In administrative courts such as the Council of State, litigation proceedings are markedly more inquisitorial. |
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In 1456, an inquisitorial court authorized by Pope Callixtus III examined the trial, debunked the charges against her, pronounced her innocent, and declared her a martyr. |
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The proceeding in the inquisitorial system is essentially by writing. |
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The Romanian judicial system is strongly influenced by the French model, considering that it is based on civil law and is inquisitorial in nature. |
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Here the author draws especially on inquisitorial records, usually handling them with care especially when they postdate the Sommario's first arrival. |
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One of the most significant differences between the adversarial system and the inquisitorial system occurs when a criminal defendant admits to the crime. |
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As a result, the structure of the judiciary differs significantly between the two, with common law judiciaries being adversarial and civil law judiciaries being inquisitorial. |
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In addition, adversarial procedure defenders argue that the inquisitorial court systems are overly institutionalized and removed from the average citizen. |
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Plea bargain as a system does not exist in an inquisitorial system. |
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Countries using common law, including the United States, may use an inquisitorial system for summary hearings in the case of misdemeanors such as minor traffic violations. |
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The distinction between an adversarial and inquisitorial system is theoretically unrelated to the distinction between a civil legal and common law system. |
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The Soviet Union used the inquisitorial system of Roman law, where the judge, procurator, and defense attorney collaborate to establish the truth. |
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