appellate
gb/əpˈɛlɪt/ us/əpˈɛlɪt/
C1
Anglais
~ 27900
Sens
0 sens
adjective
technical
C1
property
1
relating to legal appeals
Describes things that are part of a higher court’s work in checking and changing decisions made by lower courts.
Schéma d’usage :
appellate [noun]
Erreur fréquente :
Learners sometimes confuse 'appellate', 'appeal', 'appealing', and 'appellant'. 'Appeal' is usually the noun or verb for asking a higher court to change a decision ('to file an appeal'). 'Appellate' is an adjective used before nouns ('appellate court', 'appellate judge'). 'Appealing' usually means 'attractive' in everyday English, and 'appellant' is the person who files the appeal.
Synonymes
appeals (Used before nouns in the same way (e.g. 'appeals court'); slightly more common in everyday news language than 'appellate' itself.)
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reviewing (Stresses the act of checking decisions; less specifically legal than 'appellate'.)
Antonymes
trial (As in 'trial court'; refers to the first court that hears a case, the opposite level from the appellate stage.)
Collocations
appellate court
|appellate judge
|appellate jurisdiction
|appellate review
|appellate process
|appellate procedure
Thèmes
law
|government
Exemples
- The case is now before the state appellate court.
- She has spent most of her career handling complex appellate litigation.
- The appellate judge questioned whether the defendant received a fair trial.
- They plan to challenge the ruling through the federal appellate system.
- Appellate review is limited to issues that were raised in the lower court.
Exemples pédagogiques
- He works as a lawyer in an appellate court.
- The company lost the trial but won in the appellate court.
- An appellate judge looks at what the first court did.
- Appellate review does not include a new trial.
- They asked for an appellate decision on the case.
Grammaire
Forme canonique
appellate
API
GB/əpˈɛlɪt/
US/əpˈɛlɪt/
Syllabes et accentuation
ap - pel - late (3 syllabes)
Stress on 2nd syllable (pel)
Formes du mot
Adjective
- Base: appellate
Famille de mots
Expressions
appellate court
1/əpˈɛlɪt kˈɔɹt/
fixed phrase
technical
a court that hears appeals
A court that looks at decisions made by lower courts and can change them.
Exemples
- The appellate court overturned the lower court’s decision.
- Her case is now on appeal before the state appellate court.
- Most constitutional challenges are decided at the appellate court level.
appellate jurisdiction
1/əpˈɛlɪt d͡ʒˌʊɹɪsdˈɪkʃən/
fixed phrase
technical
power to hear appeals
The legal power a court has to hear cases that come from lower courts and to change their decisions.
Exemples
- The Supreme Court has appellate jurisdiction over decisions of the lower federal courts.
- This tribunal lacks appellate jurisdiction in criminal matters.
appellate procedure
1/əpˈɛlɪt pɹoʊsˈid͡ʒɚ/
fixed phrase
technical
rules for handling appeals
The set of rules that say how a case must be taken to a higher court and how that court will handle the appeal.
Exemples
- Students in the course studied federal appellate procedure.
- Appellate procedure requires parties to file briefs within strict deadlines.
appellate review
1/əpˈɛlɪt ɹɪvjˈu/
fixed phrase
technical
higher court review of decisions
The careful check that a higher court makes of a lower court’s decision to see if there were legal errors.
Exemples
- The statute limits appellate review to questions of law.
- Appellate review in this area is usually very deferential.
intermediate appellate court
1/ˌɪntɚmˈidiɪt əpˈɛlɪt kˈɔɹt/
fixed phrase
technical
middle level appeals court
A court between the trial courts and the highest court that first hears appeals from the trial courts.
Exemples
- Most appeals are resolved in the intermediate appellate court and never reach the supreme court.
- The state created a new intermediate appellate court to reduce the backlog of cases.