final appeal
Last resort request
A final appeal is the last opportunity to challenge a legal decision before it becomes permanently binding.
In most judicial systems, this means review by the highest court with jurisdiction—often a supreme court—whose ruling cannot be further contested.
The phrase emphasizes exhaustion of legal remedies: After the final appeal was denied, the sentence stood.
- supreme courtApex of judicial hierarchy
- court of last resortHighest appellate tribunal
- higher courtCourt hearing appeals
- justiceFair treatment under law
- judicial reviewCourts invalidating unconstitutional acts
verdict · ruling · closure · tribunal · legal precedent · reconsideration · due process · day in court · last resort · end of the line · adjudication · constitutional law · arbitration · case law · mediation · stay of execution · plea for mercy · resolution
- supreme courtshighest court, constitutional court, chief justice, justices
- capital punishmentdeath penalty, execution, death row, death sentence, lethal injection
- executionexecution, lethal injection, firing squad, gas chamber, electric chair
final appealfirst instance
Earliest example of something
preliminary hearing · trial court · initial complaint · original jurisdiction · arraignment
final, appeal, finally, finale, finality, finalize, finalist, finals, fine