Acordão em conferência

English translation: Full-bench decision; en banc ruling

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Portuguese term or phrase:	Acordão em conferência
English translation:	Full-bench decision; en banc ruling
Entered by:	Adrian MM. (X)

02:07 Sep 3, 2008

Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
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Portuguese term or phrase: Acordão em conferência

If possible, I need the UK translation for this type of court decision/judgment.

Gerard Burns Jr. KudoZ activity Questions: 28 (none open) (2 closed without grading) Answers: 204 United States
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Full-bench decision; en banc/in banc appellate committee ruling

Explanation:
US = en banc.

E& W = in banc sitting of judges prior to the Judicature Acts 1873-75.

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Local time: 21:51

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Higher court decision

rhandler

Full-bench decision; en banc/in banc appellate committee ruling

Adrian MM. (X)

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Higher court decision

Explanation:
This is basically what an "acórdão" is: a collegiate decision taken by a higher court.

The word comes from Portuguese "acordam os desembargadores ..." (the members of the court agree on ,,,)

Exemples from UK sites:

Precedent and Analogy in Legal Reasoning (Stanford Encyclopedia of ... -
The lower court is ‘strictly’ bound because it has no power to overrule the higher court's decision. Equally, most appeal courts are bound by their own ...
www.seop.leeds.ac.uk/entries/legal-reas-prec/

Rating manual - Volume 2 - Section 4 - Appendix 3: Effective dates ...
Correction in consequence of a VT/LT/Higher Court decision in respect of another hereditament. Date of Event. Correction of effective date of earlier ...
www.voa.gov.uk/instructions/chapters/rating_manual/vol2/sec...

rhandler
Local time: 16:51
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 1302

18 hrs confidence:

Full-bench decision; en banc/in banc appellate committee ruling

Explanation:
US = en banc.

E& W = in banc sitting of judges prior to the Judicature Acts 1873-75.

Example sentence(s):

(en banc), reprinted in 33 I.L.M. 364 (1994). 120. Pratt, 33 I.L.M. at 386. In Pratt, the Privy Council considered whether Jamaica could constitutionally ...
Appeal reversed our earlier en banc decision, set aside the dismissal of the ... Our en banc decision in this case was reversed by the Court of Appeal and ...

Reference: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3655/is_199701/ai_n8...
Reference: http://www.dir.ca.gov/WCAB/En_banc_Miceli/2006-EB-2.pdf

Adrian MM. (X)
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