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Fact-finding may refer to: Trier of fact , also called a finder of facts, one or more people who determines facts in a legal proceeding United Nations fact-finding mission , a mission carried out by the United Nations to discover facts
Neutral fact-finding is a process where a neutral third party, selected either by the disputing parties or by the court, investigates an issue and reports or testifies in court. The neutral fact-finding process is particularly useful for resolving complex scientific and factual disputes.
A United Nations fact-finding mission, also called a United Nations commission of inquiry, [1] is a United Nations mission carried out with the intention to discover facts. [2] Fact-finding missions have been sent by the UN to a number of conflict areas over the past 50 years, on a case-by-case basis.
“The independent, objective fact-finding process and analysis is critical to determining what county and state agencies must do to ensure that a tragedy like this never happens again,” the ...
The process of summarizing testimony in narrative form, to be relied upon by the Lord Chancellor in lieu of live testimony in open court, was a kind of factfinding process in its own right. As implied by the secret nature of the proceedings and the absence of parties and counsel, equity's factfinding process was fundamentally inquisitorial (i.e ...
In law, a trier of fact or finder of fact is a person or group who determines disputed issues of fact in a legal proceeding (usually a trial) and how relevant they are to deciding its outcome. [1] To determine a fact is to decide, from the evidence presented, whether something existed or some event occurred.
HKBU Fact Check (https://factcheck.hkbu.edu.hk/home/): a project by the School of Communication at Hong Kong Baptist University. HKBU Fact Check is a signatory to the International Fact-Checking Network's codes of principles. [56] [57] HKBU Fact Check is indexed by Duke Reporter's Lab. [10]
Fact may also indicate findings derived through a process of evaluation, including review of testimony, direct observation, or otherwise; as distinguishable from matters of inference or speculation. [11] This use is reflected in the terms "fact-find" and "fact-finder" (e.g., "set up a fact-finding commission"). [12]