ZHAW Legal English Advanced 2 AAL

without...

...clear evidence, the defendant must be presumed innocent.

to approve or accept something

a law, policy, measure, an approach

to uphold, as an appellate court, the decision reached by a lower court

v+n, to change a law, document, etc.

... the constitution

to turn to a higher court with the argument that a legal error occured during the trial

person bringing the appeal at appellate court level

intermediate court, considers only issues of law on appeal

power of a court to hear cases after they have been decided by a lower court