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EX PARTE PROCEEDINGS [4 records]

Record 1 2013-09-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Rules of Court
  • Decisions (Practice and Procedural Law)
DEF

A proceeding in which not all parties are present or given the opportunity to be heard.

CONT

Detention review proceedings under security certificates take place in open proceedings as well as in the context of an in-camera, ex parte process that permits the Government to protect classified...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Règles de procédure
  • Décisions (Droit judiciaire)
CONT

La procédure de contrôle de la détention, dans le contexte des certificats de sécurité, consiste à la fois en une audience publique et en une procédure ex parte, tenue à huis clos, qui permet au gouvernement de protéger des renseignements [...]

Spanish

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Record 2 2004-01-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Rules of Court
DEF

Any judicial or quasi judicial hearing in which only one party is heard.

OBS

Term usually used in the plural.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Règles de procédure
OBS

instance : Équivalent de «proceedings» recommandé par le Comité d'uniformisation de procédure civile dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

OBS

Le terme anglais «proceedings» se rend en français par un substantif comme «procédure», par exemple, qui a alors un sens collectif et, par conséquent, ne s'écrit pas au pluriel.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Reglamento procesal
OBS

procedimiento ex parte: [...] a petición de parte interesada, o de una de las partes solamente.

OBS

procedimiento ex parte: Expresión y observación reproducidas del Glosario Provisional de Términos Jurídicos con la autorización de la Oficina de las Naciones Unidas en Ginebra.

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Record 3 2003-08-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Rules of Court
  • Phraseology
DEF

In the affair; in the matter of; concerning; regarding. This is the usual method of entitling a judicial proceeding in which there are not adversary parties, but merely some res concerning which judicial action is to be taken such as a bankrupt's estate, an estate in the probate court, a proposed public highway, etc. It is also sometimes used as a designation of a proceeding where one party makes an application on his own behalf, but such proceedings are more usually entitled "Ex parte"

French

Domaine(s)
  • Règles de procédure
  • Phraséologie

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Reglamento procesal
  • Fraseología
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Record 4 1999-01-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Private Law
  • Insurance
DEF

A phrase applied to proceedings which are taken ex parte or provisionally, and are allowed to stand as well done for the present, but which may be subject to future exception or challenge, and must then stand or fall according to their intrinsic merit and regularity.

CONT

Examination de bene esse.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit privé
  • Assurances
CONT

Accepter une preuve de bene esse, c'est accepter une preuve provisoirement pour le cas où une preuve meilleure ou plus régulière ne pourrait pas être faite.

Spanish

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