sitting in camera
sitting in chambers

Later that year he was invited to Kuala Lumpur to give his views to the Trade Depression Commission during its two day's sitting in camera.

This type of order is made ex parte, the court sitting in camera, for the object of the exercise is to enable the plaintiff to enter premises and obtain access to documents or objects without the defendant having an opportunity to remove, hide or destroy them.

I admired Jones's calm: he might have been a judge himself, sitting in chambers with two experts in a tricky Chancery case.

Then, following an alleged intervention from Downing Street, they applied to a Judge sitting in Chambers to recover their passports.

Mr Justice Drake, sitting in chambers at the High Court yesterday, said a full hearing of Virgin's action was likely by early July.

It may consist of a single Justice of Appeal sitting in Chambers, or as a Full Court of three Justices of Appeal.