first trial; first instance
Legal term for the initial court hearing or trial in a multi-tier judicial system. Often contrasted with 二審 (second instance) and 最高裁 (Supreme Court).
The defendant lost the case at the first trial.
A not-guilty verdict was handed down at the first trial, but the prosecution appealed.
This case was fought from the first instance all the way to the Supreme Court.
The appellate court upheld the ruling of the first trial.
The case was brought from the first trial to the appellate court.
控訴審 is the appellate trial that follows an appeal, directly contrasted with 一審, the original first-instance trial.
上告審 is the final appeal trial (often before the Supreme Court), the opposite end of the judicial process from 一審.
first instance; first hearing
Compound of 一 (one, first) and 審 (hearing, trial). A straightforward legal term formed from Sino-Japanese morphemes.