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venturing into the merits

French translation: aborder le bien-fondé

08:34 Nov 9, 2009

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English term or phrase: venturing into the merits

Judge Higgins observed that it is not necessary to determine that the facts actually do constitute a breach of the treaty when dealing with jurisdiction, and that no such determination could be made without venturing into the merits.

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French translation:aborder le bien-fondé

Explanation:
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Selected response from:

John Detre
Canada

Grading comment

4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

s'aventurer dans le bien-fondé

Beila G.

remettre en question

Emmanuelle Debon

aborder le bien-fondé

John Detre

en affronter le bien-fondé

Francoise Vogel

Answers

15 mins confidence:

remettre en question

Explanation:
Normalement, on attend quelque chose après "merits"...
"...sans une totale remise en question de l'affaire", "sans tout remettre en question", "sans remettre en question le bien-fondé de l'affaire"...

Emmanuelle Debon
France
Local time: 17:41
Native speaker of:

French
PRO pts in category: 8

1 hr confidence:

en affronter le bien-fondé

Explanation:
-

Francoise Vogel
Italy
Local time: 17:41
Native speaker of:

French
PRO pts in category: 32

5 hrs confidence:

aborder le bien-fondé

Explanation:
-

John Detre
Canada
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 4

15 hrs confidence:

s'aventurer dans le bien-fondé

Explanation:
Pour moi, c''est la simple relation des propos tenus dont le sens est de ne pas mettre en question le bien-fondé, ce qui constituerait toute une aventure ou un rique juridique et devrait faire l'objet d'un nouveau débat.

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Note added at 23 hrs (2009-11-10 07:52:16 GMT)
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sans se risquer dans le bien-fondé conviendrait également ...
(fait peut-être plus "sérieux")

Beila G.
Belgium
Local time: 17:41
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

French
PRO pts in category: 113