public hearing

English

public +‎ hearing

public hearing (plural public hearings)

a judicial hearing which anyone may attend, as opposed to a private hearing.
a meeting to hear public opinions on any issue; a meeting where members of the public hear the facts about any issue and give their opinions about it.
- 2017, Cole, J. Michael, “Civic activism and protests in Taiwan: why size doesn't (always) matter”, in Dafydd Fell, editor, Taiwan's Social Movements under Ma Ying-jeou: From the Wild Strawberries to the Sunflowers‎, Routledge, →ISBN, OCLC 982062630, page 31:
  On many occasions, public hearings were more symbol than substance; key dissenting voices, interest groups and academics were either not invited, informed too late or barred access form the venue by large police deployments. In some cases, as with the controversy over InfraVest Corp's wind turbine project in Yuanli, Miaoli County, police inside a public hearing would turn their cameras on the villagers and activists, but did not do so when company representatives or government officials were making their case, measures that were regarded as intimidating.

judicial hearing which can be attended by anyone

meeting to hear public opinion