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Plädoyernotizen

English translation: outline submissions (US) summation of pleadings (E&W) skeleton statement of case

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German term or phrase:Plädoyernotizen
English translation:outline submissions (US) summation of pleadings (E&W) skeleton statement of case
Entered by: Adrian MM.

03:09 Oct 5, 2019
German to English translations [PRO]
Law/Patents - Law (general) / Swiss court case filing
German term or phrase: Plädoyernotizen
This is a document from a Swiss court case.

It looks like the plaintiffs brief or pleadings. However it is on the law firm's letterhead, in the form of a letter to the court. The heading is Plädoyernotizen.

Sounds like Pleading Notes.

Is there a standard translation for this term? Pleading Memorandum?
Richard L. Weiss
United States
Local time: 03:56
outline submissions (US) summation or memoranda of pleadings
Explanation:
In the UK, I think this would be called 'skeleton pleadings', but we need to careful about the overtones of 'skeletons in the (family) cupboard' for non-UK use.

Quaere the French equivalent of note(s) de plaidoirie: 'written submission(s) summaris/zing Counsel's address' FHS Bridge, Council of Europe FRE/ENG Glossary.

Not necessarily closing submissions.

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Note added at 2 days 12 hrs (2019-10-07 15:50:23 GMT) Post-grading
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You are welcome. I'm glad I was derailed from the 'closing address' siding, though with not enough time to pick the brains of your namesake: my US-born and French-speaking student friend, Peter Weiss, still lawyering in Downtown London's West End.
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Adrian MM.
Austria
Grading comment
Thank you. I like Summation of Pleadings.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4written pleadings
Daniel Arnold (X)
4closing submissions /pleadings
Chris Pr
3 +1outline submissions (US) summation or memoranda of pleadings
Adrian MM.
3oral argument notes
Johanna Timm, PhD
4 -2plea notice
Cillie Swart


  

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5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): -2
plea notice


Explanation:
A notice of an upcoming plea.


    https://www.linguee.com/english-german/search?source=auto&query=Pl%C3%A4doyernotizen
Cillie Swart
South Africa
Local time: 09:56
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 39

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  AllegroTrans: It's a document in an ongoing case so this doesn't work, nor does a literal translation
4 hrs
disagree  Daniel Arnold (X): notice is a different legal concept
5 hrs
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written pleadings


Explanation:
I am fairly sure this is the meaning of Plädoyernotizen


    https://www.echr.coe.int/Documents/PD_written_pleadings_ENG.pdf
    https://www.mblseminars.com/Outline/Drafting-Pleadings-in-Scotlands-Civil-Courts---An-Introduction/7324
Daniel Arnold (X)
Australia
Local time: 09:56
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 32

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  AllegroTrans: I cannot see the whole 'bundle' of pleadings being delivered to the court in a single letter
20 hrs
  -> The written pleadings is a document of theoretically any length. Dont mix up pleadings with the case materials, pleadings are what one Party asks the court to decide (in their favour). Not more than that, usually a couple of pages. I've had them before.
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closing submissions /pleadings


Explanation:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plädoyer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closing_argument

4. Übergabe der Plädoyernotizen an das Gericht
Viele Gerichte lassen es zu, dass der Anwalt seine Plädoyernotizen dem Richter oder dem Gerichtsschreiber übergibt, um die Führung des Protokolls zu erleichtern. Wenn die Übergabe solcher Plädoyernotizen möglich ist, sollte davon Gebrauch gemacht werden. Einige der Nachteile des mündlichen Vortrags gegenüber einer schriftlichen Eingabe können auf diese Weise vermindert werden.


https://app.zpo-cpc.ch/articles/232/schlussvortrage

Art. 232 Schlussvorträge

1 Nach Abschluss der Beweisabnahme können die Parteien zum Beweisergebnis und zur Sache Stellung nehmen. Die klagende Partei plädiert zuerst. Das Gericht gibt Gelegenheit zu einem zweiten Vortrag.

2 Die Parteien können gemeinsam auf die mündlichen Schlussvorträge verzichten und beantragen, schriftliche Parteivorträge einzureichen. Das Gericht setzt ihnen dazu eine Frist.

Chris Pr
United Kingdom
Local time: 08:56
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 24
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oral argument notes


Explanation:
„Plädoyernotizen“, example
https://www.yumpu.com/de/document/read/10427586/pladoyernoti...

and p. 14-15 here:
https://issuu.com/schulthess_com/docs/strategie-technik-zivi...

“Oral argument notes”
Timothy R. Johnson, “The Digital Archives of Justices Blackmun and Powell Oral Argument Notes.” Available at https://sites.google.com/a/umn.edu/trj/harry-a-blackmun-oral... See Justice Blackmun's oral argument notes in Jefferson v. Hackney 406 U.S. 535 (1972)(70‐5064) found at: http://users.polisci.umn.edu/∼trj/OAnotesbyterm75/HAB75/1971%20term/70-5064.jpg

This does not mean, however, that counsel should approach the lectern with no oral argument notes or outline. Although a few advocates are able to present effective arguments without reliance on notes, most find that an outline or list of points is essential to assure continuity in the argument[…]
https://scholarship.law.edu › cgi › viewcontent › context=lawreview


Johanna Timm, PhD
Canada
Local time: 00:56
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 717

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  AllegroTrans: I don't think oral argument notes are filed: surely they are aides mémoires?
8 hrs
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7 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
outline submissions (US) summation or memoranda of pleadings


Explanation:
In the UK, I think this would be called 'skeleton pleadings', but we need to careful about the overtones of 'skeletons in the (family) cupboard' for non-UK use.

Quaere the French equivalent of note(s) de plaidoirie: 'written submission(s) summaris/zing Counsel's address' FHS Bridge, Council of Europe FRE/ENG Glossary.

Not necessarily closing submissions.

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Note added at 2 days 12 hrs (2019-10-07 15:50:23 GMT) Post-grading
--------------------------------------------------

You are welcome. I'm glad I was derailed from the 'closing address' siding, though with not enough time to pick the brains of your namesake: my US-born and French-speaking student friend, Peter Weiss, still lawyering in Downtown London's West End.


    Reference: http://www.proz.com/kudoz/french-to-english/law-general/8621...
    Reference: http://www.linguee.fr/francais-anglais/traduction/notes+de+p...
Adrian MM.
Austria
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 115
Grading comment
Thank you. I like Summation of Pleadings.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  AllegroTrans
2 hrs
  -> Thanks- I made the 'outline submissions' deliberately 'Allegro-neutral'.
neutral  Daniel Arnold (X): far fetched
4 hrs
  -> I have long had - since Lord Woolf's UK civil justice reforms in 1998 (limit pleadings to 10 pages & 15 for PI cases) and in my own FRE/ENG glossaries - (UK) skeleton pleadings for (CH) 'notes de plaidoirie' & that IMO is on all fours with the German.
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