Sentence examples similar to court of second instance from inspiring English sources

Europe's second-highest court, the Court of First Instance, threw out an appeal by the tobacco manufacturers Philip Morris, R. J. Reynolds and Japan Tobacco, challenging the European Commission's right to pursue cigarette smuggling lawsuits in courts in the United States.

Europe's second-highest appeals court, the Court of First Instance in Luxembourg, set a date at the end of September for a meeting with Microsoft, the European Commission and others to decide whether changes demanded by the commission in March to Microsoft's business practices should be waived until its appeal is decided.

The emirate's judicial courts comprise the Court of First Instance, the Court of Appeal, and the Court of Cassation.

The growing case load has contributed to mounting and significant delays, despite the transfer of entire categories of cases to the Court of First Instance". Whether the Court system is equal to the demands of the Community, both procedurally and structurally, is a natural question.

Some 800 cases are pending before the courts of second instance and 800,000 before the courts of first instance (which are least able to cope with the flow of cases).

These include the regional Court of Appeal, the Commercial Court, the Administrative Court, the Court of First Instance, the Court of Appeal of Commerce, and the Administrative Court of Appeal.

The Court of First Instance in Luxembourg is Europe's main appeals court for challenges to the European Commission.

A court of first instance helps with the caseload.

Of course we are not a court of first instance in reviewing these findings.

The court of first instance sustained that contention and the State appealed.

The opinion delivered by the court of first instance was similarly indefinite.