appeals board
noun [C]Definition
› LAW a group of people who judge whether a legal or official decision was right or wrong, when the person affected by it thinks that it was wrong: The company appealed a $5,000 penalty in the case, but an appeals board later upheld it.
(Definition of appeals board noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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