Chambers Legal Definition:
A court which sits to dispose of procedural matters.

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A court which is session but not hearing any viva voce evidence, or otherwise in trial.



Historically, a judge in his private office (i.e. chambers) who would meet with the lawyers and resolve housekeeping matters so that the trial could proceed. That evolved, for reasons of transparency, to a judge sitting in a publicly-accessible courtroom and hearing procedural matters, but kep the term chambers.

Notably, a judge is not gowned when sitting in chambers, nor are the lawyers. Evidence, if any, is not given by oral testimony but by affidavit and generally, only lawyers or self-represented parties may speak and then only as to their matter before the Court.

Of late, some jurisdictions have taken to refer to chambers as any court sitting and dealing either with procedural matters only or any application which is heard by affidavit evidence. - http://www.duhaime.org/LegalDictionary/C/Chambers.aspx

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In camera Latin: "in a chamber" is a legal term that means in private. The same meaning is sometimes expressed in the English equivalent: in chambers.

Generally, in-camera describes court cases, parts of it, or process where the public and press are not allowed to observe the procedure or process.[2] In-camera is the opposite of trial in open court where all parties and witnesses testify in a public courtroom, and attorneys publicly present their arguments to the trier of fact. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_camera