Definition of Fair hearing

1. Noun. A hearing that is granted in extraordinary situations where the normal judicial process would be inadequate to secure due process because the person would be harmed or denied their rights before a judicial remedy became available (as in deportation or loss of welfare benefits).

Generic synonyms: Hearing
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fair Hearing

fair-world
fair and square
fair ball
fair bet
fair catch
fair chance
fair copy
fair crack of the whip
fair deal
fair dinkum
fair dos
fair enough
fair game
fair go
fair hearing (current term)
fair linen
fair market value
fair market values
fair off
fair play
fair suck of the sauce bottle
fair suck of the sav
fair to middlin'
fair to middling
fair trade
fair up
fair use
fair uses

Literary usage of Fair hearing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Contracting for Managed Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services: A Guide by Stephen Moss (2000)
"B. MCOs' Consumer Complaint, Grievance, and Appeal Procedures: Intersection With the Medicaid fair hearing Process When there are open avenues for managed ..."

2. The Life of William Wilberforce by Robert Isaac Wilberforce, Samuel Wilberforce (1838)
"... willingness to give a fair hearing to all that could be urged against his own opinions, and to listen to the suggestions of men, whose understandings he ..."

3. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1893)
"... 3 they shall give public notice of the time and place of their first meeting ;4 they shall give a full and fair hearing to all parties concerned, ..."

4. American Law and Procedure by James Parker Hall, James De Witt Andrews (1911)
"In addition to jurisdiction, due process of law, in point of procedure, ordinarily requires a fair hearing before some impartial tribunal (not necessarily a ..."

5. A Treatise on Criminal Pleading and Practice by Francis Wharton (1889)
"... and have frequently been held constitutional, a ' though with the caution that the defendant should be duly summoned, and should have a fair hearing,2 ..."

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