(ˈ)ek|spärd.ē adjective (or adverb)
Etymology: Medieval Latin, on behalf
1. : on or from one side only — used of such legal matters as injunctions, commissions, hearings, and testimony and ordinarily implying a hearing or examination in the presence of or on papers filed by one party and in the absence of and often without notice to the other party
2. : from a one-sided or partisan point of view
the bully proceeds at once by superior power to enforce his own ex parte notion of what is right — Christian Century
was discussed ex parte by vehement propagandists on both sides — F.L.Allen