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debate instrutório

English translation: evidentiary debate

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Portuguese term or phrase:debate instrutório
English translation:evidentiary debate
Entered by: Katja van Hellemond

10:10 May 16, 2010
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Law/Patents - Law (general)
Portuguese term or phrase: debate instrutório
Term from the Portuguese penal code, complete sentence reads: A instrução é formada pelo conjunto dos actos de instrução que o juiz entenda dever levar a cabo e, obrigatoriamente, por um debate instrutório, oral e contraditório, no qual podem participar o Ministério Público, o arguido, o defensor, o assistente e o seu advogado, mas não as partes civis.

I have seen a similar Kudoz question where the selected answer was "case management" but that just does not seem right to me so I would love to receive some other input. Thank you in advance!
Katja van Hellemond
Portugal
Local time: 00:36
evidentiary debate
Explanation:
In legal proceedings, "instrução" refers to the phase in which the parties present evidence to back up their claims, not to be confused with the word "instruction" in English, which does not have this meaning.
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Kathy Ann Mutz
Local time: 19:36
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Thank you for your help Kathy.
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4 +1instructional debate
Marlene Curtis
5evidentiary debate
Kathy Ann Mutz


  

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instructional debate


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Madeleine McCann (Merged/Edited) - Page 2003 - General Discussion ...
25 posts - 9 authors
There will be a "debate instrutório" ("instructional debate") on the 11th February at a court in Faro. Both prosecution and defense will put forward their ...
www.digitalspy.com/forums/showthread.php?t=664419&page=2003

Marlene Curtis
United States
Local time: 19:36
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 1314

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evidentiary debate


Explanation:
In legal proceedings, "instrução" refers to the phase in which the parties present evidence to back up their claims, not to be confused with the word "instruction" in English, which does not have this meaning.

Example sentence(s):
  • Also, prior to entering an evidentiary debate or raising a confidentiality defense, defense counsel should assess the overlapping responsibilities of Rule 3.3, titled “Candor to the Tribunal”. The pertinent portions of this Rule provide
  • When defense counsel objected ("that calls for an opinion, it's speculation, that's hearsay"), the court mercifully cut short the impending evidentiary debate. "I can answer that," the court announced, "Jose is Joseph in Spanish."

    Reference: http://www.montanabar.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlen...
    Reference: http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=7th&n...
Kathy Ann Mutz
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PRO pts in category: 83
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