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What is an adversarial system?

What is an adversarial system? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (law) A system of law in which advocates represent the prosecution and the defence and an impartial person (judge) or people (jury) determine the truth of the matter
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The adversarial system is not serving us well at the moment, not by a long way.
Ours is an adversarial system, one which simply grinds to a halt if one of the adversaries won't even step into the ring.
I really wonder if we've actually done a disservice because we got into the adversarial system.
In the adversarial system at the beginning of trial proceedings the court asks the defendant whether he pleads guilty or not guilty.
Through this important process, the new criminal procedural code had gone from inquisitorial to an adversarial system.
Opponents of implementing the inquisitorial system argue the efficacy of the adversarial system.

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