Editing Procedural law (section)

{{Short description|Sum of the legal norms in court procedures}}
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'''Procedural law''', '''adjective law''', in some jurisdictions referred to as '''remedial law''', or '''rules of court''', comprises the rules by which a [[court]] hears and determines what happens in [[civil procedure|civil]], [[lawsuit]], [[criminal procedure|criminal]] or [[administrative proceeding]]s.  The rules are designed to ensure a fair and consistent application of [[due process]] (in the U.S.) or [[fundamental justice]] (in other [[common law]] countries) to all cases that come before a court.<ref>{{Cite web |title=procedural law |url=https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/procedural_law |access-date=2023-12-12 |website=LII / Legal Information Institute |language=en}}</ref>

[[Substantive law]], which refers to the actual [[claim (legal)|claim]] and [[defense (legal)|defense]] whose validity is tested through the procedures of procedural law, is different from procedural law. In the context of procedural law, '''procedural rights'''<!--boldface per WP:R#PLA--> may also refer not exhaustively to [[Right to Information Act, 2005|rights to information]], access to [[justice]], and [[right to counsel]], [[rights]] to [[public participation]], and [[right to confront accusers]], as well as the basic [[presumption of innocence]] (meaning the prosecution regularly must meet the [[Burden of proof (law)|burden of proof]], although different jurisdictions have various exceptions), with those rights encompassing general civil and political rights. In [[environmental law]], these procedural rights have been reflected within the [[UNECE]] [[Treaty|Convention]] on "Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters" known as the [[Aarhus Convention]] (1998).