Class B Judgment - Otsurui Shinpan

...The judge, acting as a family court adjudicator, either alone or with the opinion of the intervening judge or in the presence of the intervening judge, conducts the hearing in private, and the judge investigates the facts and examines the evidence on his own authority, making the process simpler and quicker than litigation. In the narrow sense, there are two types of adjudication: "Class A Adjudication" and "Class B Adjudication," as stipulated in Article 9 of the Family Court Adjudication Act. In the broad sense, in addition to these, it also includes two types of special adjudication on litigation matters: "Adjudication equivalent to an agreement" and "Adjudication in lieu of mediation." (1) Class A Adjudication It deals with matters that are not suitable for resolution by mediation that involves an agreement between the parties, are not contentious, and are exclusively the subject of adjudication. ...

*Some of the terminology used in relation to "Class B Trial" is listed below.

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…裁判官が家事審判官として単独で，または参与員の意見を聞いて，あるいはその立会いのもとに，非公開で行い，また裁判官が職権で事実調査･証拠調べを行うなど訴訟に比して簡易･迅速な処理であるのが特色。審判の種類には，狭義には，家事審判法9条に規定される〈甲類審判〉と〈乙類審判〉の二つがあり，広義には，これらのほかに，訴訟事項についての特殊な審判である〈合意に相当する審判〉〈調停に代わる審判〉の二つをも含む。(1)甲類審判　当事者間の合意を要素とする調停による解決には適さず，紛争性がなく，もっぱら審判の対象となる事項を扱う。…

※「乙類審判」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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