Difference between Respondee and Respondent

What is the difference between Respondee and Respondent?

Respondee as a noun is a person who responds while Respondent as a noun is the person who answers for the defendant in a case before a court. in some legal systems, when one appeals a criminal case, one names the original court as defendant, but the state is the respondent.

We hope you now know whether to use Respondee or Respondent in your sentence.