Translation of "pourvoi en appel " (French → English) :

The Decision also contains necessary provisions with a view to accommodating the new function of the Court of First Instance as appeal instance according to Article 225(2) of the EC Treaty against decisions of the Community Patent Court.

While an appeal in private party litigation should not be restricted to points of law but should also allow parties to raise matters of fact, a full retrial of a case in second instance should be excluded.

The judges hearing the appeal will also be assisted by technical experts throughout the handling of the case.

The Community Patent Court in first instance and the patent appeal chamber of the Court of First Instance in patent appeal proceedings must, as the two stages of a uniform procedure, work to the same set of procedural rules.

‘2. By judgment of 7 May 2008, the Court of Appeal of England and Wales (United Kingdom) (“the Court of Appeal”) dismissed the application of [the Home Secretary] for permission to appeal to that court against [the POAC]’s decision of 30 November 2007 by which it had allowed an appeal against the Home Secretary’s decision of 1 September 2006 refusing to lift the proscription of [the PMOI] as an organisation concerned in terrorism and ordered the Home Secretary to lay before the United Kingdom Parliament the draft of an Order removing the applicant from the list of organisations proscribed in the United Kingdom under the Terrorism Act 200 ...[+++]0.

As a result of an appeal in 1991, not so very long ago, Judge Allan McEachern reduced Schwartz's prison sentence for that attack from nine to five years because he said there was no evidence that Schwartz was either sexually deviant or a risk to the community.