oral argument

oral argument. An advocate’s spoken presentation before a court (esp. an appellate court) supporting or opposing the legal relief at issue.

— Also termed (in BrE) hearing. [Cases: Appeal and Error 824; Federal Courts 742.]

“[T]he 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 favor…. In any but freak situations, oral argument is a must.” Karl N. Llewellyn, The Common Law Tradition: Deciding Appeals 240 (1960).

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译员海燕，毕业于法国顶尖的高级翻译学院，专注翻译各种与破产对抗诉讼有关的法律文件。