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)
How To Use fair hearing In A Sentence
- Outrages like the Thomas case make it a good deal more difficult for enlightened penal reformers like the Professor to get a fair hearing when they advocate bringing back the lash.
- Earlier, in a dramatic outburst, he claimed he was not getting a fair hearing after being refused permission to call a witness.
- I know several of them personally and have always felt I have been given a fair hearing.
- I had a continual barrage of interjections - quite contrary to the speech of the Minister, to whom we gave a pretty fair hearing.
- If you are to be placed in such a position, you deserve a fair hearing in court.
- Weber gave a fair hearing to anyone who held a different opinion.
- The author commands a fair hearing from his readers.
- As an Arab American, I can empathize with Shirley Sherrod, In the midst of this crisis, I wrote a number of short pieces on a few websites charging that she had been "lynched" and was a victim of a hysterical mob spurred on by lies and cowards in authority who, out of fear or political calculation, had sacrificed her to a mob refusing her right to a fair hearing. James Zogby: I Understand Shirley Sherrod
- Not every villager believes that he was given a fair hearing, and the issue remains a conversation point on local streets.
- He claims he was not given a fair hearing.
