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 spouses enter a divorce, they enter the legal justice system. This is rather puzzling, as no crime has been committed. Most states now have “no fault” divorce. While they are not on the “criminal ...

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 ...