Paper favours continental-style system because adversarial process is expensive and inefficient The UK’s criminal justice system should switch to a continental-style inquisitorial process, pay defence ...
To effectively deal with the challenges faced by our criminal justice system, we must determine whether the adversarial legal system we practice meets the end of justice for our country. If it does ...
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 adversarial system of justice is a defining feature of our legal system. In essence, it is based on the opposing parties engaging in a battle to convince the passive judge and jury that their ...
The Guardian: Adopt inquisitorial criminal justice system in UK, charity think piece urges
'But at the moment, with the adversarial system, it's the parties' responsibility to put all the information before us, not ours to ask for that information.' Already many district judges are moving ...
Sydney Morning Herald: Legal system overhaul proposal pushes 'inquisitorial' role for judges
The waning faith of the public in Nepal's courtrooms and (in)justice delivered should invoke a debate in the legislature about what the fundamental philosophy of our legal system should be. When ...
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 ...