The scope of review refers generally to the
right to have an issue raised on
appeal
In law, an appeal is the process in which cases are reviewed by a higher authority, where parties request a formal change to an official decision. Appeals function both as a process for error correction as well as a process of clarifying and ...
. It entails whether an issue was preserved by or available to an
appellant on appeal. Scope of review is to the appellate court what the
burden of proof is to the trial court. For example, in the
United States, a party can preserve an issue for appeal by raising an
objection at
trial.
Scope of review further relates to matters such as which judicial acts the appellate court can examine and what remedies it can apply.
The scope of review for
administrative law evolved substantially in the 1970s and 1980s.
See also
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Standard of review
References
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