court of appeal

Noun

Meaning

court of appeal (plural courts of appeal)

(law) An appellate court.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

court of appeals bench appeals court appellate court

Examples

Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal. Albert Schweitzer

For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal. Arthur Eddington

The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority. Thomas Henry Huxley

The journey here was fraught with all kinds of opposition and venom. Through three courts, right upto the Court of Appeal to defend before three eminent judges my constitutional rights to be registered in the VKB; I struggled and I won. James Ah Koy

1980s and 1990s In October 1985, the California Supreme Court rejected Rosenthal's appeal of the multimillion-dollar judgment against him for legal malpractice, and upheld conclusions of a trial court and a Court of Appeal that Rosenthal acted improperly. Source: Internet

Abdi had spent 16 years in jail before his murder conviction was quashed by the Court of Appeal on 13 February, 2019, and a retrial was ordered, after the court heard he had been correctly diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in 2013. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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