0 a speech made by a judge or lawyer to the jury towards the end of a trial, telling them again about the main matters they should consider in the case:
1 a statement by a judge or lawyer to a jury in a court legal action that gives the main facts that have been provided, in order to help the jury decide if someone is guilty or not:
A moving document, this disc contains the composer's last recordings as a conductor and provides a magnificent summing-up of his own formidable symphonic achievement.
The transcript of evidence giving the sheriff's summing-up in full is, however, not yet available.
In the jury room, however, the judge's summing-up was immediately forgotten.
Indeed, again we find that one of the principles on which this was done for political reasons could be found in his summing-up speech.
I conclude with this summing-up of the situation.
Some comment on this question in the summing-up speech would be very helpful.
It seems to me that, put briefly, that is a very good summing-up of the general problem.
I have made a short summing-up speech because there have been so many speakers this evening.