abstract:An adversarial process is one that supports conflicting one-sided positions held by individuals, groups or entire societies, as inputs into the conflict resolution situation, typically with rewards for prevailing in the outcome. Often in the form of the process assumes a game-like appearance.
Lord Owen argues that the bill is now so fiendishly complicated, and so encrusted with amendments, that some sections of it simply cannot be sorted out by a process of adversarial amendment on the floor of the House.