"To hear the appeal" means to listen to or consider a request for review or reconsideration of a decision that has been made.
Full definition
Appeal: If a judge makes an error of law or fact on a decision, another «higher» court will
hear an appeal of the decision.
The Court of Appeal rarely
hears appeals in which the appellant claims to have been wrongly deprived of a prompt and efficient resolution by way of summary judgment.
It can
hear appeals by data controllers against enforcement action by the information commissioner, but it can not hear claims by individuals relating to their own personal information.
The state's highest court has ruled that it's not OK for the judge
who hears an appeal to be the same one who issued the original conviction.
If permitted, the voluntary dismissal route would allow a plaintiff to force a court of appeals to
hear an appeal where not permitted under Rule 23 (f).
He doesn't expect the court to
hear the appeal until at least the fall, but urged that passengers need to be cautious while the case is still under review.
A large number of those affected are appealing; however I understand that the council will
hear appeals only from a «representative sample» of school - based staff.
Nonetheless, I have been studying these leave to appeal decisions to better understand the basis upon which superior courts decide whether to
hear an appeal from an administrative decision.
They said their dismissal was automatically unfair because there had been a delay of several months in
hearing the appeals against the decision to sack them.
After the 2nd Circuit ruled last week, the three - judge
panel hearing the appeal in the Skelos case asked lawyers to submit additional legal arguments in light of the Silver decision.
A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit,
which hears appeals of rulings from the Court of Military Commission Review, invalidated al Bahlul's conspiracy conviction, but the Circuit reinstated it after an en banc hearing.
The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, has said the Supreme Court should not
hear an appeal filed by the sacked National Caretaker Committee of the party led by Senator Ahmed Makarfi.
In Massachusetts, an appellate court
recently heard an appeal from a defendant restaurant owner after it was determined by the lower court that the case could proceed to trial.
Supreme Court of Canada will
not hear appeal from Ontario farmer seeking right to sell and drink unpasteurized milk, Toronto Star
The NMS must be taken into account by the registration authorities when making registration and enforcement decisions, as well as by the Care Standards Tribunal
when hearing appeals against decisions of the registration authorities.
They advise on regulatory action taken under the Charities Act 2011, including inquiries, and appear in the
tribunals hearing appeals from decisions of the Charity Commission.
The Supreme Court of
Canada heard the appeal of the B.C. Court of Appeal's decision in Attorney General of Canada, et al. v. PHS Community Services Society, et al., dealing with the safe injection site in Vancouver known as Insite.
The circuit courts
also hear appeals of family court decisions unless both parties agree to appeal directly to the Supreme Court of Appeals.
They will
hear appeals relating to the interpretation or application of the new Civil Procedure Rules, which came into effect on 1 April and which implement Jackson LJ's civil justice reforms.
The Hong Kong court's
judges hear appeals in panels of five, which include no more than one foreign member.
The SEND
Tribunal hears appeals about EHC plans where there are disputes, but until now only had powers to look in to concerns on the education element of the plan, creating additional burdens for families or young people who had concerns about the health or social care elements.
Consider the creation of an appellate body that can
quickly hear appeals made from ADR (or even possibly court litigation) related to PPPs.
Justice Brown exercised his discretion to
hear the appeal because: (i) the parties argued with vigour (as if the matter was not moot); (ii) the issue might not otherwise arrive at the Court of Appeal due to the costly three - stage appeal process and there was a strong public interest in resolving this legal issue; and (iii) the court was not deciding an abstract question (thus intruding into the legislative sphere) but was resolving an issue based on a complete record.
It is taking an inordinate time to process and
hear appeals making the court an extremely slow process when compared internationally.
Appellate experts such as SCOTUSBlog's Tom Goldstein pegged the odds of the Supreme Court
hearing the appeal at «zero» because the dispute is primarily about facts rather than broad legal issues.
The ERT's key finding is that, «where groundwater contamination is present and spreading,» the balance of convenience favoured making Mr. Rocha pay for the work immediately,
without hearing his appeal first.
While refusing to
hear an appeal doesn't create binding precedent that the English - only signs are OK, it means that you're unlikely to succeed in your argument that they aren't allowed.
Cases may include prosecuting unsafe housing claims, defense of eviction claims, prosecuting unfair trade practice claims,
administrative hearing appeals for the revocation of licenses / certifications, and a variety of other matters.
The Second
District hears appeals from most of the Tampa Bay area, including Hillsborough, Pinellas, and Pasco Counties.
The commissioner
normally hears appeals, but his role in the investigation may have led Rice and the NFLPA to suggest that he be removed from proceedings in favor of a neutral arbitrator.