Glossary entry

Portuguese term or phrase:

Acordão em conferência

English translation:

Full-bench decision; en banc ruling

Added to glossary by Adrian MM. (X)
Sep 3, 2008 02:07
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Portuguese term

Acordão em conferência

Portuguese to English Law/Patents Law (general) court judgment
If possible, I need the UK translation for this type of court decision/judgment.
Change log

Sep 6, 2008 05:56: Adrian MM. (X) Created KOG entry

Discussion

Gerard Burns Jr. (asker) Sep 6, 2008:
Sense of the term Looking at the uses in Portugal, it does seem that the key point of the term is that it is "as a group", with the idea of it being a higher court being secondary.

Proposed translations

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

US = en banc.

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





Example sentence:

(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 ...

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Higher court decision

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...
Peer comment(s):

agree Denise Miranda : Hi, Ralph!//É, eu não tenho trabalhado muito com tradução, mas tenho saudades!
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Oi, Denise, andava sumida! Obrigado por aparecer.
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