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Oral argument, is the one chance for you (not for some chance-assigned mere judge) to answer any questions you can stir any member of the court into being bothered about and into bothering with, and the one chance to sew up each such question into a remembered point in favour. In any but freak situations, oral argument is a must, The Common Law Tradition: Deciding Appeals, Karl No. Llewellyn, 240 (1960).Means an advocate's spoken presentation before a court (esp. an appellate court) supporting or opposing the legal relief at issue, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1122....
oral argument
oral argument : oral presentation of a party's position and the reasoning behind it before an esp. appellate court ...
argument
argument 1 : a reason or the reasoning given for or against a matter under discussion compare evidence, proof 2 : the act or process of arguing, reasoning, or discussing ;esp : oral argument ...
Dissertation
A formal or elaborate argumentative discourse oral or written a disquisition an essay a discussion as Dissertations on the Prophecies...
Judicial decision
Judicial decision, a judicial decision is merely a decision which is in fact exercised by the courts in accordance with strict legal procedure, whereas a quasi-judicial decision is given by an administrator or an administrative court entitled to follow its own procedure provided only that the rules of natural justice are observed, Firm of S. Mohd. Ali and Sons v. V. Madhavarao, AIR 1964 AP 132.The requisites of a judicial decision or act thus: If, (a) a competent authority, not being a court in the ordinary sense, (b) has power to give a binding and authoritative decision, (c) after hearing evidence and opposition and upon consideration of facts and circumstances, and (d) imposing liability or affecting the rights of the parties, there is a duty to act judicially, Parduman Singh v. State of Punjab, AIR 1958 Punj 63.A true judicial decision presupposes an existing dispute between two or more parties and then involves four requisites:-(1) The Presentation (not necessarily orally) of thei...
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