ISSN:
1467-6435
Source:
Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
Topics:
Sociology
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Economics
Notes:
‘[…] the opposing party is indispensable in the judicial process; not because he increases the animosity and belligerence between the parties and not because he permits counsel to give vent to greater eloquence, but in the interest of justice and the judge, for whom the best and easiest method of seeing the whole truth before him, illuminated from all sides, is through the juxtaposition of the opposing claims of the parties.This comparison between the judicial process, based on the opposition of two parties, and the parliamentary system, founded on the struggle between the majority and the opposition, has more than a purely theoretical value; that is, the similarity is more than purely aesthetic. […] To abolish the freedom of the parties and to transform the Parteiprozess into a procedure where all initiative would emanate from the judge […] is equivalent to […] a trial without a trial1.1
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6435.1977.tb02208.x
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