inquisitorial procedure

They used inquisitorial procedures, a legal practice common at that time.

In the 17th century there was a reaction against inquisitorial procedures.

The inquisitorial procedure is the least popular approach to mediation.

Torture was applied as a supplement to the new inquisitorial procedure.

These severities derived from the nature of the inquisitorial procedure.

Such an official would be able to bring before a court the sort of evidence which the proposal for inquisitorial procedure is designed to elicit.

No information has reached us respecting the result of the inquisitorial procedure against the other members of the sect.

But the claimant who has received no help should not despair, because there is a significant element of inquisitorial procedure in the tribunal's decision-making process.

Instead, a new system relying on the testimony of witnesses, judicial latitudes and the inquisitorial procedure began to dominate criminal trials in most of Europe.

The essence of the inquisitorial procedure is that the trial is an inquiry to find the truth which is to be carried out by a process of interrogation.

Such procedure has no relationship to the inquisitorial procedure adopted in civil law countries such as found in Europe in which all available evidence is provided to the Court.

Mr Trimble added: 'It might be best to proceed, not in an adversarial courtroom manner, but in an inquisitorial procedure with the outcome being a report, part or all of which would be published.'

Inquisitorial procedure- Using this procedure, the mediator asks each of the disputants a series of questions, considers the two sets of responses, and then selects and imposes a mandatory solution on the members.

It was safe for the informer to make his nebulous accusations, for under the codex of inquisitorial procedure he would never face the man he was condemning, nor would Ximeno ever be told who had informed against him or what had been the charge.

Holborne was manager of the conference on two bills to abolish the Star Chamber, which like the other conciliar courts had been introduced into England under the Tudors, adopted the Inquisitorial procedure which was unknown in the English Common Law Courts.