PRETRIAL CONFERENCE

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• pretrial conference — n: a proceeding attended by the parties to an action and a judge or magistrate and held at a party s request or on the judge s initiative for the purpose of focusing the issues, making discovery, entering into stipulations, obtaining rulings, and …   Law dictionary

• pretrial conference calendar — A court calendar, in addition to the trial calendar, listing the cases wherein a pretrial conference has been called and the time therefor. Union Oil Co. v Hanes, 27 Cal App 2d 106, 80 P2d 516; State ex rel. Kennedy v District Court, 121 Mont 320 …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• pretrial conference — noun (law) a conference held before the trial begins to bring the parties together to outline discovery proceedings and to define the issues to be tried; more useful in civil than in criminal cases • Syn: ↑pretrial • Topics: ↑law, ↑jurisprudence… …   Useful english dictionary

• conference — con·fer·ence / kän frəns, fə rəns/ n 1: a meeting for consultation, deliberation, discussion, or interchange of opinions a conference on environmental law see also judicial conference, pretrial conference …   Law dictionary

• pretrial — noun (law) a conference held before the trial begins to bring the parties together to outline discovery proceedings and to define the issues to be tried; more useful in civil than in criminal cases • Syn: ↑pretrial conference • Topics: ↑law,… …   Useful english dictionary

• pretrial procedure — Provision made by statute or rule of court for a conference between court and counsel to consider simplification of the issues, the necessity or desirability of amendment of the pleadings, the possibility of obtaining admissions to avoid… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• WTO Ministerial Conference of 2005 — Location map Earth label = label size = position = background = lat = 22.3 long = 114.2 marksize = 10 border = caption = Location of Hong Kong float = right width = 320The Sixth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization, also known… …   Wikipedia

• status conference — A meeting of the judge and the lawyers (or unrepresented parties) in a pending legal matter, to determine how the case is progressing. At the status conference, the judge may ask about what discovery has been conducted, whether and how the… …   Law dictionary

• procedural law — Law that prescribes the procedures and methods for enforcing rights and duties and for obtaining redress (e.g., in a suit). It is distinguished from substantive law (i.e., law that creates, defines, or regulates rights and duties). Procedural law …   Universalium

• PLANS — People for Legal and Non Sectarian Schools (PLANS) is an organization based in California in the United States which campaigns against the public funding of Waldorf methods charter schools alleging they violate the United States Constitution s… …   Wikipedia

• group discussion — noun a discussion among participants who have an agreed (serious) topic • Syn: ↑conference • Derivationally related forms: ↑confer (for: ↑conference) • Hypernyms: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary