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A legal debate is a discussion between lawyers, legal academics, jurists, politicians, and others who might have interest or expertise in the law, about a particular legal issue. Legal debates can take many forms, and do not necessarily need to be in person. Most take place on paper—judges within a court, for example, might debate each other.
The subjects of the debate topic, typically a government agency, is not the interlocutor; the debate rounds are not addressed to them. Within the topic of the debate, a group that enacts a certain policy action is the policy group; if by an individual, the individual is the policy leader, such as a head of state.
Argumentation is a daily occurrence, such as in public debate, science, and law. [5] For example in law, in courts by the judge, the parties and the prosecutor, in presenting and testing the validity of evidences.
A discussion moderator or debate moderator is a person whose role is to act as a neutral participant in a debate or discussion, holds participants to time limits and tries to keep them from straying off the topic of the questions being raised in the debate. Sometimes moderators may ask questions intended to allow the debate participants to ...
For example, a statute that says "No person may smoke in a hospital" does not mean that "John Doe may not smoke in a hospital"; the second statement is the law only if a legitimate authority declares so. This is because one cannot describe a legal statement as right or wrong without making a normative value judgment about what the law should be.
In linguistics, discourse analysis, and related fields, an interlocutor is a person involved in a conversation or dialogue. Two or more people speaking to one another are each other's interlocutors. [1] [2] The terms conversation partner, [3] hearer, [4] or addressee [5] are often used interchangeably with interlocutor.
Debate is a process that involves formal discourse, discussion, and oral addresses on a particular topic or collection of topics, often with a moderator and an audience. In a debate, arguments are put forward for opposing viewpoints.
While the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure require no judicial permission and impose no intervention deadline, common law dictates that a party may not intervene post-judgment unless the trial court first sets aside the judgment. [8] For the same reason, an intervenor must enter the lawsuit before final judgment to have standing to bring an appeal.