三さん審しん制せい度ど

noun

three-tiered court system; three-instance trial system

Legal term referring to the system where a case can be heard by up to three courts: district, high, and supreme. Used in discussions of Japanese judicial procedure.

• 日本にほんの三さん審しん制せい度どでは、地ち方ほう裁さい判ばん所しょ、高こう等とう裁さい判ばん所しょ、最さい高こう裁さい判ばん所しょの順じゅんに審しん理りが行おこなわれる。

  Under Japan's three-tiered court system, trials proceed from the district court to the high court and then to the supreme court.