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Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.

deep issue

See ISSUE (1).

deep issue.

The fundamental issue to be decided by a court in ruling on a point of law. "Essentially, a deep issue is the ultimate, concrete question that a court needs to answer to decide a point your way. Deep refers to the deep structure of the case - not to deep thinking. The deep issue is the final question you pose when you can no longer usefully ask the follow-up question, And what does that turn on?'" Bryan A. Garner, The Winning Brief 49 (1999).