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suppression hearing

suppression hearing see hearing ...

hearing 1 : a proceeding of relative formality at which evidence and arguments may be presented on the matter at issue to be decided by a person or body having decision-making authority compare trial NOTE: The purpose of a hearing is to provide the opportunity for each side of a dispute, and esp. a person who may be deprived of his or her rights, to present its position. A hearing, along with notice, is a fundamental part of procedural due process. Hearings are also held, as for example by a legislature or an administrative agency, for the purpose of gathering information and hearing the testimony of witnesses. administrative hearing : a hearing conducted by an official (as an administrative law judge) or a body (as a review board) of an administrative agency regarding an agency action and esp. an action under dispute confirmation hearing 1 : a hearing conducted by the U.S. Senate to examine a nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court NOTE: Article II of the U.S. Constitution provides ...

Suppression of facts

Suppression of facts, failure to pay duty or take out a licence is not necessarily due to fraud or collusion or wilful misstatement or suppression of facts or contravention of any provision of the Act. Suppression of facts is not failure to disclose the legal consequences of a certain provision, Padmini Products v. CCE, AIR 1989 SC 2278 (2284): (1989) 4 SCC 275....

suppress

suppress 1 : to put down by authority or force 2 a : to keep secret b : to stop or prohibit the publication or revelation of 3 a : to exclude (illegally obtained evidence) from use at trial [ narcotics found in violation of the right against unreasonable search and seizure] b : to fail to disclose (material evidence favorable to a defendant) in violation of due process [accused the prosecution of ing evidence] compare brady material vi : to suppress evidence sup·press·ible adj sup·pres·sion [-pre-shən] n ...

Hearing

Hearing, an investigation of a controversy. See TRIAL.A judicial session, usu. open to the public, held for purpose of deciding issues of fact or of law, sometimes with witnesses testifying, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 725.Traditionally, testimony that is given by a witness who relates not what he or she knows personals but what others have said, and that is therefore dependent on the credibility of some one other than witness, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 725.Word hearing can admit of a very wide and liberal interpretation. It may include recording of evidence, consideration of arguments on some aspect of suit, examination of various questions relating to suit and so on. The essential perquisite is whether the Judge is applying his mind to some aspect of the case. If he is conducting some routine work or passing interlocutory orders, he can't be said to be 'hearing the suit', Sham Lal v. Rajinder Kumar Modi, AIR 1993 J&K 50. In a suit, 'hearing' can be conducted at va...

hear

hear heard hear·ing 1 a : to give a hearing to [the court heard the claims] [the judge agreed to argument on the objection] b : to conduct a hearing about [the magistrate's authority to a matter properly before him] 2 a : to take testimony from [the committee will 30 witnesses] b : to take (as testimony) at a hearing [the judge heard statements from the victim's family] ...

ex parte

ex parte [Medieval Latin, on behalf (of)] : on behalf of or involving only one party to a legal matter and in the absence of and usually without notice to the other party [an ex parte motion] [relief granted ex parte] used in citations to indicate the party seeking judicial relief in a case [Ex Parte Jones, 7 U.S. 2 (1866)] compare in re, inter partes ...

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