court sessions
Tribunal meeting times
Court sessions are the periods when a court is actively conducting business—hearing cases, taking testimony, and issuing rulings.
A session may last hours or months, depending on the court's schedule and caseload.
The judge called court into session.
Spring court sessions begin next week.
The term often appears in historical or formal contexts, distinguishing when courts sit from when they're in recess.
- all riseCommand to stand
- judgeOne who decides
- docketCourt's case schedule
- arraignmentCharge-reading court session
- plea bargainNegotiated criminal case resolution
prosecutor · witness · sidebar · motion to dismiss · hearing · voir dire · jury selection · recess · defendant · sentencing · case dismissed · clerk · bench · trial · stenographer · closing argument · oath · cross-examination
- courtsdistrict courts, federal courts, circuit courts, municipal courts, trial courts
- Supreme Courtchief justice, associate justices, justices, certiorari, oral arguments
- appellate courtsappeals process, appeal hearings, criminal appeals
- court docketscase numbers, pending cases, trial dates
court sessionsmediation sessions
Facilitated conflict resolution gatherings
backroom deals · vigilante justice · settlement talks · plea bargaining · gentlemen's agreements