Sentence examples for main hearings from inspiring English sources

A peculiar feature of these courts is a panel of lay assessors (nämndemän), who take part in the main hearings, primarily on more serious criminal and family cases.

The Macpherson inquiry's main hearings were in London, but it also held hearings in Manchester on 13 October 1998 and Bradford on 21 October 1998, with contributions from the local police, councils and race equality campaigners.

The main reason the hearings went the way they did seemed to be the committee's desire to move on.

They adopted a new schedule that was more political and highlighted two main goals: holding hearings on the current situation in Lithuania, and deciding which political demands should be submitted to the Tsarist authorities.

The main point of the hearings is to determine the nominee's fitness for the post.

-Why are Iraq and the war on terror the main focus of the hearings?

And the relevance of [the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act] is one of the main subjects of these hearings".

It became the main focus of the Kefauver Committee hearings, the first corruption hearings to become a television phenomenon, and was soon popularized in books and movies.

He was the main witness at the Senate hearings.

But the main topic of the confirmation hearings was immigration policy.

The second section introduces closed material procedures (CMPs), also known as secret hearings, into the main civil courts.