But a legalistic process has its own logic and restrictions to it.

Source: https://www-tmp.thenational.scot/politics/23917869.andrew-tickell-media-failing-coverage-covid-inquiry/?ref=rss

For a public television audience, you can torture with a long boring session full of incoherent inanities and legalistic jargon, beamed at an entrapped audience held spellbound by their common interest in the subject.

Source: https://www.nationalaccordnewspaper.com/politics-in-wig-and-gown-by-chidi-amuta/

Here gathered those who thought it was better to achieve a real and vibrant sub-culture than a struggle for an emancipation that was often only formal and legalistic.

Source: https://socialistworker.co.uk/comment/magnus-hirschfeld-and-the-fight-for-lgbt-liberation/

Their responses — noncommittal, halting and legalistic — to questions about how their schools’ disciplinary policies would apply if students were to call for the genocide of Jews left many people outraged.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/11/us/harvard-board-claudine-gay-antisemitism.html