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English noun: pretrial

1. pretrial (communication) (law) a conference held before the trial begins to bring the parties together to outline discovery proceedings and to define the issues to be tried; more useful in civil than in criminal cases


Synonymspretrial conference


Broader (hypernym)conference, group discussion


Domain categoryjurisprudence, law









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