reformatio in peius
C2CEFR level
96/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
The worsening of an appellant's position as a consequence of that party's own appeal, a result the courts generally forbid.
The prosecution had not cross-appealed, so the court could not increase the sentence without breaching the rule against reformatio in peius.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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