"substantive procedures" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It refers to the specific tests and actions performed by auditors or investigators to gather evidence and assess the accuracy and completeness of financial statements or other information. Example: The auditor's report detailed the extensive substantive procedures that were conducted to verify the company's financial statements, including interviews with key personnel and a thorough review of supporting documentation.
For many appeals to substantive or procedure independent standards seem to be deeply undemocratic, while for others pure procedural approaches seem to lack the basis to distinguish good from bad deliberative outcomes without introducing epistemic standards.
An essay that takes aim at the substantive values and procedures employed by universities in their efforts to regulate sexual relationships on campus is not, and cannot rationally be taken to be, an act of discrimination, retaliation, or harassment directed against any particular student who may have filed such a complaint.
Requiring the test is the first substantive change in procedure the Police Department made after a Queens man, Sean Bell, 23, was killed in a volley of 50 police bullets while leaving a strip club in Jamaica on Nov. 25, 2006, the morning of his wedding.
Prest calls this "a marked advance on any previous introduction to English law.. including constitutional, civil and criminal law, public and private law, substantive law and procedure, as well as some introductory jurisprudential content".
(See substantive due process).
Participants said they would also discuss ways of persuading Congress to adopt new court procedures and substantive legislation in the area.
By applying this new synthesis to trade agreements, this Article shows how procedural obligations can be designed to stack the deck in favor of certain private interests and why treaty negotiators may find it easier to agree on procedures than substantive commitments.
Through clinic participation, students learn substantive environmental law and procedures for addressing concerns through the courts and administrative tribunals.
This program has been approved by the Pennsylvania Continuing Legal Education Board for 3.0 hours of substantive law, practice and procedure CLE credit.
Brennan was a strong believer in the importance of an independent judiciary and of the impact of procedure upon substantive rights.
