What is Appellate court?
[[File:Eo-scale2.png|thumb|right|200px]] An '''appellate court''', commonly called an '''''appeals court''''', '''''court of appeals''''' ([[American English]]),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/court%20of%20appeals |title=Court of appeals |publisher=Education.yahoo.com |access-date=2012-01-08 |archive-date=2011-07-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718133821/http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/court%20of%20appeals |url-status=dead }}</ref> '''''appeal court''''' ([[British English]]),<ref>Delmar Karlen, 'Civil Appeals: English and American Approaches Compared', ''William & Mary Law Review'', Vol. 21, Issue 1 (1979), p. 130</ref> '''''court of second instance''''' or '''''second instance court''''', is any [[court of law]] that hears an [[appeal]] of a [[trial court]] or other lower [[tribunal]]. In most [[jurisdiction]]s, the court system is divided into at least three levels. The trial court, which initially hears [[legal case|cases]] and reviews [[evidence]] and [[Wikt:testimony|testimony]] to determine the facts of the case. There is at least one [[wikt:intermediate|intermediate]] appellate court. The top level is a [[supreme court]] (or court of last resort) which primarily reviews the [[Judgement (law)|decisions]] of the intermediate courts. A jurisdiction's supreme court is that jurisdiction's highest appellate court.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/supreme-court |title=Supreme Court |publisher=Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 11th Edition. Retrieved October 26, 2012 from CollinsDictionary.com}}</ref> Appellate courts nationwide can operate by varying rules.<ref>{{cite web|title=A Guide to Illinois Civil Appellate Procedure|url=http://applawyers.org/Civil_Appeals_Guide_Revised.pdf|website=Appellate Lawyers Association|access-date=7 July 2015|archive-date=9 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150709111738/http://applawyers.org/Civil_Appeals_Guide_Revised.pdf|url-s