Hearing at Legal Glossary What is it? In the trial court context, a legal proceeding (other than a full-scale trial) held before a judge.
Hearing: A proceeding usually without a jury.
Hidden Trust: An item of value which does not show on the books of a business, often excluded for some improper purpose such as escaping taxation or hiding it from a bankruptcy trustee.
Hearing examiners serve in different adjudicative areas and are involved in all types of government activity, from the administration of environmental regulations to the review of unemployment compensation claims.
Hearing
(n) Hearing is the legal proceedings in a court of law where evidences or arguments are presented before a judge in order to form a decision or determine an issue of fact.
HEARING -- A legal proceeding - other than a trial - held before a judge, magistrate or court commissioner.
Prehearing Conference
(1) A conference between the administrative law judge and the parties , usually by telephone, in which procedural issues are discussed.
A hearing before a governmental agency or an administrative law judge. There is no jury, but the agency or the administrative law judge has the authority to make a decision and issue a ruling.
Fact-finding hearing: A proceeding where facts relevant to deciding a controversy are determined.
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Hearing: Proceeding usually without a jury.
Preliminary Examination (or Preliminary hearing): A hearing before a magistrate or judge to determine if there is probable cause to warrant holding a person accused of a crime. It is a procedure to prevent a possible abuse of prosecutorial power.
HearingGeneric label to describe a proceeding. Default Hearing
In family law cases, a hearing in which a payor is required to come to court to explain why payment has not been made as required by a support order.
Hearing - A formal proceeding (generally less formal than a trial) with definite issues of law or of fact to be heard. Hearings are used extensively by legislative and administrative agencies.
Hearing: Any proceeding that takes place before a court where testimony is given and arguments are heard.
Hearsay: Something a person claims he or she was told by someone else. Often hearsay cannot be used as evidence in a trial.
Hearing - An in-court proceeding before a judge, generally open to the public.
Hearsay - Evidence based on what the witness has heard someone else say, rather than what the witness has personally experienced or observed.
hearing de novoA full new hearing.
hearsaySecond-hand evidence, generally consisting of a witness's testimony that he/she heard someone else say something.
holographicEntirely written, dated and signed in someone's own handwriting.
hearing: a preliminary examination where evidence is taken for the purpose of determining an issue of fact and reaching a decision on the basis of that evidence ...
Hearing - Legal proceedings in which arguments of the interested parties are heard in court.
Hearing Proceedings
A record of the testimony and evidence entered.
Hearsay
Statements by a witness who did not see or hear the incident in question but heard about it from someone else. Hearsay is usually not admissible as evidence in court.
HEARING, chwncery practice. The term, hearing is given to the trial of a chancery suit.
Hearing de novo - A full new hearing.
Hearsay - Statements by a witness who did not see or hear the incident in question but heard about it from someone else. Hearsay is usually not admissible as evidence in court.
Hearing -A proceeding, generally public, at which an issue of fact or law is discussed and either party has the right to be heard.
hearing A proceeding where evidence is taken or questions of law presented; often used to refer to a proceeding in which the court considers a motion, as distinguished from a full-fledged trial.
HEARING -- A court proceeding on the record. Hearings are often used to determine issues arising before or after the full trial of a case, and may be less formal than the trial.
Rehearing - Another hearing of a civil or criminal case by the same court in which the case was originally heard.
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Rehearing
A re-trial or reconsideration of a case or an issue by the court at the request of a party.
Release
A written document evidencing the satisfaction of a debt; the giving up of some right, claim or interest.
Pre-hearing review
A hearing before the IT without any verbal or written evidence, where the IT decides, on the basis of the pleadings and what the parties' representatives say, ...
Term: Rehearing
Definition: A re-trial or reconsideration of a case or an issue by the court at the request of a party.
hearing
In the trial court context, a legal proceeding (other than a full-scale trial) held before a judge. During a hearing, evidence and arguments are presented in an effort to resolve a disputed factual or legal issue.
Hearing
Definition - Noun
1 : a proceeding of relative formality at which evidence and arguments may be presented on the matter at issue to be decided by a person or body having decision-making authority
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Hearing - A proceeding in which arguments, witnesses, or evidence are heard by a judicial officer or administrative body.
Hearing Proceedings - A record of the testimony and evidence entered.
A hearing in civil cases, where the judge gives or confirms directions for the future of the case.
A hearing on the evidence in a civil case in Scotland. It is not a 'trial' (unless - and this is rare and getting increasingly rare - there is a Jury, in which case it is called a trial. In civil cases the Scottish Jury is twelve and not fifteen ...
A mini-hearing held during a trial on the admissibility of contested evidence. For example, a defendant may object to a claimant's witness.
in law, hearing by a superior court to consider correcting or reversing the judgment of an inferior court, because of errors allegedly committed by the inferior court.
pretrial hearing: a court hearing that occurs before trial in which the judge sits down with the parties to the matter to review issues associated with the case.
Pretrial Hearing: Conference with attorneys to determine scope of possible trial with view toward resolving issues through agreement.
Arbitration hearing - an informal legal proceeding held before a neutral person called an arbitrator.
Arbitrator - the person who presides at an arbitration hearing and renders a decision on the case.
Preliminary Hearing: Another term for arraignment.
Pre-Injunction: Court order requiring action or forbidding action until a decision can be made whether to issue a permanent injunction. It differs from a temporary restraining order.
BIFURCATED HEARING OR TRIAL To hold a separate hearing or trial of issues of a case independent of one another.
BRIEF A written document setting forth a summary, abstract, a condensed statement of a larger document.
trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence. Return to Top
uphold: The decision of an appellate court not to reverse a lower court decision.
preliminary hearing - A probable cause hearing in Circuit Court which screens felony criminal cases by deciding whether there is enough evidence to warrant a trial in the District Court.
A state court hearing an admiralty or maritime case is required to apply the admiralty and maritime law, even if it conflicts with the law of the state, under a doctrine known as the "reverse-Erie doctrine.
Preliminary hearing - Also, preliminary examination. A hearing by a judge to determine whether a person charged with a crime should be held for trial. (See arraignment.) ...
Preliminary hearing - A hearing appointed to decide a point of procedure, usually in inter partes proceedings.
Priority Document - A document which establishes a priority date.
Preliminary Hearing - Synonymous with "preliminary examination"; the hearing given a person charged with a crime by a judge to determine whether he should be held for trial.
PRELIMINARY HEARING: Legal proceeding used in some states in which a prosecutor presents evidence to a judge in an attempt to show that there is probable cause that a person committed a crime.
preliminary hearing - The hearing by a judge to determine whether a person charged with a crime should be held for trial.
Related Terms: Hearing, Evidence, Balance of Probabilities, Reasonable Doubt, Cross Examination, Jury
From Catherwood v Thompson 1958 OR 326 (Canada), a trial was stated to be an: ...
ARBITRATION
The hearing and settlement of a dispute between opposing parties by a third party whose decision the parties have agreed to accept.
for discovery, coordinate trial, and generally to take care of bookwork and housekeeping so the lawsuit progresses smoothly and efficiently through the system, rather than requiring overmuch time on the court's calendar for unnecessary hearings and ...
For example, if the validity of a will is challenged, a court might appoint an administrator pendente lite with limited powers to do such things as may be necessary to preserve the assets of the deceased until a hearing can be convened on the ...
" Administrative law is that body of law which applies for hearings before quasi-judicial or administrative tribunals. This would include, as a minimum, the principles of natural justice as embodied in audi alteram partem and nemo judex in sua causa.
Another example of an immunity is where a witness agrees to testify only if the testimony cannot be used at some later date during a hearing against the witness. Incorporeal Legal rights which are intangible such as copyrights or patents.
A hearing is then held before a judge, with the person in question entitled to legal representation, to determine if she/he should be placed in an institution or special facility.
These parliamentary (private bill) committees are tribunals acknowledging certain rules of policy, taking evidence from witnesses and hearing arguments from professional advocates.
Evidence - Testimony, documents, physical objects, or other things presented at a trial or court hearing for the purpose of proving or disproving facts relevant to a case.
Ex Parte - Action taken without any parties present for a hearing.
This term is used to refer to a trial which starts over, which wipes the slate clean and begins all over again, as if any previous partial or complete hearing had not occurred.
The final appeal hearings and judgments of the House of Lords took place on 30 July 2009. The judicial role of the House of Lords as the highest appeal court in the UK has ended.
Arraignment - The hearing at which the accused is brought before the court to plead to the criminal charge in the indictment. He may plead "guilty," "not guilty," or where permitted "nolo contendere." (See preliminary hearing.) ...
Temporary restraining order (TRO): Prohibits a person from an action that is likely to cause irreparable harm. This differs from an injunction in that it may be granted immediately, without notice to the opposing party, and without a hearing.
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