Questions tagged [adversarial-system]

In England, tribunals are intended to be more informal and therefore accessible venues of justice where the parties cannot be expected to conduct proceedings with full legal competence. In a pure adversarial system which England is mostly, judges…

In England there is a system of tribunals as well as various courts. Are they entirely adversarial as well as the courts are?

As I understand, originally all judicial courts derived their authority from the crown. So too, was the prosecutor in criminal matters referred to as “the crown.” So the crown is both the judge and one of the adversarial sides. So in what sense was…