The proposed victims' rights amendment does not seek to alter the adversary system of prosecution and defense.
Moreover, the grand jury is an exception to our adversary system of justice.
Sullivan & Cromwell, he suggests, is protecting the entire adversary system.
"In our adversary system, it's very important that both sides not pull their punches," he said.
Unfortunately, the adversary system does not work this way.
In our adversary system, after all, that's what you're supposed to do in court: fight.
Doesn't our jurisprudence have to concentrate much more on the question of how the good and the true can be pursued in an adversary system?
In other words, the adversary system is said to have both economic costs and political costs.
All British criminal courts operate on the adversary system.
One was that lawyers must look beyond their allotted roles in the adversary system and work for the social good.