FAIR HEARING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fair hearing mean? 

• FAIR HEARING (noun)
  The noun FAIR HEARING has 1 sense:

1. 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)

  Familiarity information: FAIR HEARING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAIR HEARING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("fair hearing" is a kind of...):

hearing ((law) a proceeding (usually by a court) where evidence is taken for the purpose of determining an issue of fact and reaching a decision based on that evidence)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)