The adversarial system (or adversary system) is a legal system where two advocates represent their parties' positions before an impartial person or group of people, usually a jury or judge, who ...

Note: This is part four of a six-part online symposium on the use of forensics in the criminal justice system. You can read the introduction and part one here, part two here and part three here. You ...

Justice is adversarial. From the presentation of arguments in a case, to the physical layout of the courtroom, the justice system is inescapably built on the presentation of opposing views by opposing ...

Our adversarial legal system contemplates that each party will have the opportunity to fully investigate the facts of a dispute and bring to the attention of the trier of fact those facts most ...

Our adversarial system, under which lawyers present their clients’ cases to the trier of fact (a judge or a jury), has been around for hundreds of years. In civil and criminal cases, attorneys gather ...

The American legal system is expensive, making justice inaccessible to many. Mediation offers a more affordable and efficient alternative to traditional adversarial legal proceedings. In the late ...

The senior judge managing the Central Criminal Court has asked whether the State’s adversarial legal system is “fit for purpose” in dealing with children who are victims of, or accused of, serious ...

The Nigerian legal system is in deep crisis not because the Code of Conduct Tribunal controversially convicted Rt. Hon. Justice Walter Onnoghen, who until recently was its chief shepherd. That is just ...