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committal hearing
noun[ C ]
law UK or Australianspecializeduk /kəˈmɪt.əl ˌhɪə.rɪŋ/ us /kəˈmɪt̬.əl ˌhɪr.ɪŋ/
an official legal meeting to decide whether a person or case should be sent to a higher court for a trial:
At his committal hearing police announced they had dropped the charge of attempted murder.
All three accused will appear in court again in October for the committal hearing.
The case was thrown out by a magistrate after a brief committal hearing.
Related word
commit
The evidence was presented at a committal hearing.
Magistrates set a date for the start of the committal hearing, which is expected to last about six weeks.
A committal hearing informs an accused person of the strength of the prosecution case.
Victims of personal violence are required to give their evidence only once, at a trial, not at the committal hearing.
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