The phrase "adversarial trial" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in legal contexts to describe a trial system where two opposing parties present their cases to an impartial judge or jury.
Example: "In an adversarial trial, both the prosecution and defense have the opportunity to present evidence and argue their positions before the court."
Alternatives: "contested trial" or "opposing party trial".
Grand juries' proceedings are sealed because nothing has been proved in the adversarial trial process yet.
"In my judgment, the adversarial trial demands full openness and communication," Judge Murphy said.
But under SOPA, there was no adversarial trial, just an ex parte hearing before a judge.
These are not trivial or superficial invasions of the procedure of the adversarial trial.
Many child sexual abuse complainants find the adversarial trial process so distressing that they say they would never report abuse again.
The adversarial trial system, which rewards prosecutors for convictions, also makes it tough for district attorneys to think of defendants as possibly innocent.
Another constitutional change aims to improve a hidebound judicial system, introducing oral evidence and moving towards adversarial trials.
In the courtroom itself, there is a general move in the region towards oral, adversarial trials rather than written, inquisitorial ones.
They include reducing the power of the state by introducing adversarial trials that for the first time allow defence lawyers to pick apart publicly the evidence of government prosecutors.
Funded by the U.S. State Department in October 2014, a cooperative initiative between the two nations is helping the students and professors understand Mexico's transition to US-like oral adversarial trials.
As a former investigator, I was also shocked to discover that nowhere in Europe — even in the United Kingdom, where adversarial criminal trial was invented — is it common for defense counsel to independently investigate the government's allegations against the counsel's clients.
