Doctrines and terms for how a trial runs and who runs it: justices of the peace, senior counsel, juries and their sequestration, the docket, and the adversarial and inquisitorial models of procedure, together with the administration of justice and procedural law as general subjects. A doctrine belongs here when its cited article describes a court, a court officer or a trial procedure. It excludes sanctions and interim relief.
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Administration of justice (Wikipedia)
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The administration of justice is the process by which the legal system of a government is executed.
Adversarial system (Wikipedia)
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The adversarial system, also called adversary system, accusatorial system, or accusatory system, is a legal system used in the common law countries where two advocates represent their parties' case or position before an impartial person or group of people, usually a judge or jury, who attempt to determine the truth and pass judgment accordingly.
Docket (court) (Wikipedia)
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A docket in the United States is the official summary of proceedings in a court of law.
Inquisitorial system (Wikipedia)
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An inquisitorial system is a legal system in which the court, or a part of the court, is actively involved in investigating the facts of the case.
Jury sequestration (Wikipedia)
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Jury sequestration is the isolation of a jury to avoid accidental or deliberate tainting of the jury by exposing them to outside influence or information that is not admissible in court.
Justice of the peace (Wikipedia)
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A justice of the peace (JP) is a judicial officer of a lower court, elected or appointed by means of a commission (letters patent) to keep the peace.
Procedural law (Wikipedia)
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Procedural law, adjective law, in some jurisdictions referred to as remedial law, or rules of court, comprises the rules by which a court hears and determines what happens in civil, lawsuit, criminal or administrative proceedings.
Senior counsel (Wikipedia)
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Senior Counsel, State Counsel (post-nominal letters: SC), or Senior Advocate is a title given to senior lawyers in some current or former Commonwealth nations, mainly those in which the British monarch is no longer head of state, making the title "King's Counsel" obsolete.
Struck jury (Wikipedia)
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A struck jury is a multi-step process of selecting a jury from a pool.
Trial (Wikipedia)
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In law, a trial is a coming together of parties to a dispute, to present information (in the form of evidence) in a tribunal, a formal setting with the authority to adjudicate claims or disputes.
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