fact-finding

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Accurate fact finding, however, is the essential first step in any judicial system, a process the justice mentions not at all.

From Slate • Sep. 5, 2025

"Where do you file a complaint; who reviews it; how does fact finding occur; who compares what happened to what’s allowed? That’s where the rubber hits the road."

From Salon • Nov. 14, 2023

Since 2014, it has operated a system of "fact finding assessments" into civilian deaths, which can progress to a criminal investigation by the Military Advocate General.

From BBC • May 9, 2023

A jury trial represents our system’s ideal of authoritative fact finding, a process enshrined in the Constitution for getting as close as a society can to the truth of a matter that is in dispute.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2022

Massachusetts, though not ignorant of this fact, finding that the decision respecting Maine would be in favour of Gorges, purchased his title for twelve hundred pounds sterling.

From The Life of George Washington, Vol. 1 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States by Marshall, John