"object of proceedings" is correct and usable in written English.
It typically refers to the subject matter that is the focus of legal proceedings. For example, you might say, "The object of the proceedings was to determine whether the defendant was liable for damages."
All Nevin actually then said, according to an unofficial transcript given to reporters today, was "on behalf of Mr. Mohammad, I object to proceedings being closed, because they deal with preservation of evidence of a detention facility.
The property is the object of legal proceedings between the surrounding community and a developer.
Above all, the extensive and sometimes objectively groundless number of exceptions for industry from the financing of the expansion of renewable energy by all the consumers of electricity meets with substantial misgivings [[21],[22]] and has become the object of European proceedings for inappropriate state aid (see the following section) [[23]].
"It has long been accepted that a person whose mental condition is such that he lacks the capacity to understand the nature and object of the proceedings against him, to consult with counsel, and to assist in preparing his defense may not be subjected to a trial" consistent with the Due Process Clause.
As the votes were counted, one spectator in the gallery stood up and shouted, "As a queer woman of color, I object to these proceedings".
In Japan in 1977, the Environment Agency issued a notice on certification of patients, and the criteria for Minamata disease diagnosis became the object of much discussion and legal proceedings (Harada 2004).
The initial attempts to object to the proceedings proved dangerous.
Each lawyer had ethical obligations to object to unfair proceedings or insufficient time to counsel clients.
It is debate; it is conflict; it is spoken; it is embodied; it is enfolded in ritual by virtue of the space it inhabits, the objects that are associated with it and by a meticulous ordering of proceedings.
They had a fragile control of proceedings.
The same MPs objecting to the Momentum meetings didn't make a peep of protest at their conference being surrounded by these business-funded events, which remain a part of proceedings.
