词汇 | examination-in-chief |
释义 | examination-in-chief noun[ C or U ] LAW UKukus(US alsodirect examination) a court process in which a lawyer asks their first questions to their own witness, in order to begin proving their legal argument: During examination-in-chief the solicitor advocate is forbidden from asking their witnesses leading questions. Examples of examination-in-chiefexamination-in-chief These linguistic strategies of the legal professionals combine with witnesses' attempts to persist with their story in the disruption of the evidentiary harmony of examination-in-chief. This study has used sociolinguistic microanalysis to examine how witnesses are controlled in their examination-in-chief, and par ticularly how they are silenced. The study is restricted to examination-in-chief, thus removing the possibility of communicative strategies designed to trick a witness - a frequent par t of cross-examination. In the present study, by far the most questions addressed to witnesses, both in examination-in-chief and in cross-examination, are yes -no questions, which appear to require a minimal answer. The present study appears to be the first to look at questions asked by judges during examination-in-chief (in which the primary questioner is the witness's lawyer). The essence of examination-in-chief is that the advocate must not lead the witness. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The counsel who conducted the examination-in-chief and cross-examination remained in the courtroom. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In contrast, if a tape is to be of much use it should replace entirely examination-in-chief. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In these clauses we propose a regime which should spare the child examination-in-chief, allowing a video to serve instead. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It means having spent years listening to people telling the story in the cells, hearing them give the same evidence in examination-in-chief and cross-examining them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 So far as the examination-in-chief is concerned, the workman has to adduce evidence to prove that he has been elsewhere seeking employment. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That underlies the suggestion that both the examination-in-chief and cross-examination of children should take place before trial. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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