trial vs hearing

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01cite10New2grammar12cite10A court hearing on the settlement is scheduled for May 3012br
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10Can I replace "hearing" with trial?12br
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10Thanks in advance12br
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10Not in general. I'm no expert but I know that you can have a "hearing" that is not a "trial

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00In casual speech, yes, but I think there are legal subtleties here. For example, you can apply to a court for an injunction. Your application will receive a hearing, but no trial is involved. Another example is a bail hearing, where again there is no trial at that time.02br
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00It's also redundant to say 'a court trial', because a trial

0Could you shed some light on the difference?0-

0 A trial may last several days and over this time there will be court hearings02br
00I think Court Sitting can be used to mean Court Hearing - although you would say I have to attend a court hearing (not a court sitting)02br
00 So court hearing is a moment when the court is in session to hear a particular, or part of a particular case 0-

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01cite10New2grammar12cite10Could you shed some light on the difference?12br
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10You're on your own on this. Here are a couple of links to get you started:02br
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01cite10New2grammar12cite10A court hearing on the settlement is scheduled for May 3012blockquote

10In this instance the Court has heard all the evidence, and judgement has been passed. We do not know how many court hearings were needed to reach this stage.02br
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01cite10RayH12cite10I know that you can have a "hearing" that is not a "trial"12blockquote

10 This is also true - for example - the parties meet at court, the opening papers are read to the court, but then parties decide to reach an agreement and the matter is ended by an out of court settlemen.02br
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0Thanks, RayH. I have no problem understanding trial. However, all I could understand about hearing was it's less formal and shorter. The rest was way beyond my vocabulary to be able to comprehand. Probably as time goes on, I'll understand it more.02br
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00Thanks again for the links.0-

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01cite10New2grammar12cite10all I could understand about hearing was it's less formal12blockquote

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00 There is such a thing as an 'informal hearing' where perhaps only the Judge and the legal representatives are present. 0-

0 There is also a 'meeting in chambers' - and this would be quite informal. Present would be the Judge and legal representatives from one side or both. When 'meeting in chambers' I believe that the attendees can dispense with the necessity to wear formal robes, and the meeting is generally to discuss a point of law, or perhaps for the Judge to give informal guidance. 0-