The phrase "a reasonable hearing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where one is discussing the fairness or appropriateness of a hearing or meeting, often in legal or formal situations.
Example: "The defendant is entitled to a reasonable hearing before any judgment is made."
Alternatives: "a fair hearing" or "an equitable hearing".
"Now in any school I go to I meet a student who says they are a creationist or delude themselves that they are". He blames the influence of Christian fundamentalists in America and political correctness among teachers here who, he says, feel they have to give a reasonable hearing to beliefs held by people from other cultures, particularly Muslims.
If each person has robust rights to participate in debate and decision making and each person's views are given a reasonable hearing, it is not clear why equality requires more.
Indian law allows the perpetrator the right to a reasonable hearing, opportunity to defend charges, right to know the evidence against oneself and the right to present evidence, among other rights.
Rowe argues that the common-law right to a jury trial is implied in the Constitutional provision for "a fair hearing within a reasonable time, by an independent and impartial court established by law," concluding that the Constitution had been "shorn of its most potent and ancient safeguard, trial by jury".
Today's testimony came on the first day of a "reasonable cause" hearing in which Judge Maureen Dennis will decide whether Mr. Skakel should face a jury trial as an adult.
Finally, it is appropriate to emphasize that courts and agencies will frustrate an important purpose of the 1959 legislation if they do not, in fact, regularly compel union members 'to exhaust reasonable hearing procedures' within the union organization.
"And voters in a handful of subsequent states, like South Carolina and Michigan on the Republican side, New York and California on the Democratic side, will have a reasonable opportunity to hear the candidates debate and some opportunity to compare them and reach a choice.
You know, yesterday, when I maintained that all the speculation about Chris Christie running for president was at an end, I made the mistake of coming at the issue with the perspective of a reasonable adult who hears a man say for the millionth time that he's not running for President, gets the message and decides to uphold the primacy of rational thought.
Whenever an application for allowances is filed pursuant to subparagraph (B), SIPC shall file its recommendation with respect to such allowances with the court prior to the hearing on such application and shall, if it so requests, be allowed a reasonable time after such hearing within which to file a further recommendation.
In providing, as it did, in 1922, that a reasonable opportunity for a hearing should be given to any one affected by a change, it had no thought, we may well believe, to prohibit reservations and confidences that would be allowed against itself.
Such hearing shall not be subject to section 554 or 556 of title 5, but shall provide a reasonable opportunity to be heard and to present evidence.
