complex legal issue
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- noun
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cuestión legal compleja
- In my experience, with my few clients who tried to fire me, they may not have been able to articulate complex legal issues, but they never had a problem telling the court why I sucked.
Examples
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They sometimes "advise" on complex legal issues with little understanding of those complexities.
Academic text (2002) -
A considerable procedural disadvantage arises from this informality and from the absence of any form of discovery or pleadings when middle or senior management employees bring claims involving complex legal issues and potentially large sums of money.
Academic text (1990) -
Nevertheless, collections of hadiths were assembled to show the "way" of Muhammad (the "Sunna")—everything from his rulings on complex legal issues to his personal appearance.
Academic text (2009) -
Many individuals struggle to navigate the complex legal issue of child custody during divorce proceedings.
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Understanding the complex legal issue of intellectual property can be daunting for new entrepreneurs.
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The attorney took extra time to explain the complex legal issue surrounding the merger to her clients.
Antonyms
How Complex
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun phrase is transparently composed from its parts: 'complex' (intricate), 'legal' (pertaining to law), and 'issue' (a problem or matter), so the overall meaning — a legally related problem that is intricate — is directly derivable. This straightforward adjective-adjective-noun composition follows common cross-linguistic patterns, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words would readily understand it.
Etymology
Complex legal issue makes you imagine a pile of law books and papers all tangled like a knot; complex shows many connected parts, legal means about law, and issue is the problem. So the phrase means 'a legal problem that is hard to solve'.