Sentence examples for contested trial from inspiring English sources

It is also the longest and most heavily contested trial on insider dealing in the territory, said Mark Steward, executive director of the Securities and Futures Commission.

Deeply informed, with sharply drawn portraits and a remarkable ability to evoke a time and place, Kafka's Last Trial is at once a brilliant biographical portrait of a literary genius, and the story of two countries whose national obsessions with overcoming the traumas of the past came to a head in a hotly contested trial for the right to claim the literary legacy of one of our modern masters.

The reservist, Specialist Charles A. Graner Jr., is the first soldier to face a contested trial for the abuse case.

Without the possibility of costs protection the children's negotiation position would have been grievously undermined - they could not have contemplated a contested trial to assess their damages.

Plainly it would be an advantage if some could be persuaded to make their mind up earlier, but a last-minute plea of guilty is generally better than a long contested trial.

It would also have been the first contested trial at the deeply controversial Guantanamo Bay facility.

The observation of hotly contested trials is therefore wholly consistent with the underlying rules that are skewed toward the plaintiff, toward the defendant, or toward neither side.

A few were eventually charged by the military commission system that Mr. Bush established there, which has achieved several convictions through plea deals but has struggled to hold contested trials.

Contested trials are quite infrequent.

Case management has improved, conviction rates in contested trials have increased and penalties for those convicted have got tougher.

So what are the prospects of future contested trials being fairly considered in this context of some malleable lay magistrates apparently being prepared to accede to secret agendas?