Word of the Week: Panel

ByLouise Kulbicki October 31, 2018

Word of the Week: Panel (noun)

Study Legal English Word of the Week: Panel

Definition: A panel is group of people and the word is used especially for judges or arbiters when they ‘sit as a panel’ meaning that there is a group of them who hear a case rather than the case being heard by a single person.

Example: The case was heard by a panel of judges.

This word features in Episode 57 of the Study Legal English Podcast.

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