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 ...

When a bankruptcy case is filed, most disputes are addressed through motions and hearings within the main case. However, certain matters demand more formal litigation—complete with a complaint, ...

Up to 10% of public resources are being lost by local authorities in handling disputes and complaints, a cost that is wholly avoidable and which could be redirected instead to frontline services. At ...

THE ADVERSARIAL system is a powerful means of ensuring justice, but it is not without its faults and mediation is sometimes a better way of ensuring justice. Mediation is particularly important in the ...

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 ...