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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
judicial
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a judicial inquiry (=one involving a judge)
▪ Calls for a judicial inquiry into the affair are growing louder.
judicial review (=examination by a judge)
▪ The case is likely to go to judicial review.
judicial scrutiny (=by judges)
▪ The new legislation will be the subject of close judicial scrutiny.
the executive/judicial/legislative branch (=the three main parts of the US government)
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
appointee
▪ On Saturday, Dole piled on, using Napolitano to blast Clinton judicial appointees as soft on crime.
authority
▪ Convictions could be appealed, not to any judicial authority, but to the government agent and then the Governor.
▪ Executive, legislative, and judicial authority flowed from him and there were no legal limitations to his power.
▪ They subscribe to it not for reasons of caprice, but because eminent judicial authority has reiterated the notion over the years.
▪ A remarkable feature of this decision of the House of Lords was that it was based on almost no judicial authority at all.
▪ It will be hard for the judicial authorities to establish a relationship of cause and effect.
branch
▪ Congress has gone back into session and most of the judicial branch of government began its annual one-month vacation.
control
▪ It concerns the whole matter of judicial control over ministerial discretion.
▪ Contests over children's entrance into and exit from the care of the state are moving from administrative to judicial control.
▪ This choice allows us to accord primacy to the authority's interpretation, while still preserving judicial control.
▪ Because their legal status and powers are confused, judicial control of their activities lacks coherence.
decision
▪ The above discussion has concentrated upon the distinction drawn between administrative and judicial decisions.
▪ A summary of different approaches to jurisprudence and judicial decision making among developed countries.
▪ The court's monthly stop-offs are a reminder that judicial decisions must be obeyed.
▪ In the case of West Virginia, the situation was practically identical, but the judicial decision was different.
▪ Even the provisions of the formal document, the United States Constitution, may be amended by judicial decisions and custom usage.
▪ Provisions of the Constitution are developed and molded by judicial decisions.
▪ It is against the background of this offensive that the judicial decisions of 1896-1901 must seen.
▪ Recent judicial decisions have thrown doubt upon this point, as indicated in the following hypothetical discussion.
discretion
▪ How far judicial discretion on sentencing should be directed by Government policy is problematic.
▪ Since each matrimonial property or custody dispute is to be decided according to judicial discretion the result is that litigation abounds.
▪ A judicial discretion is the essence of real justice.
▪ The rent awarded by the court under s24A may be considerably tempered by judicial discretion.
function
▪ In the absence of any clear division between administrative and judicial functions, even the humblest official enjoyed arbitrary power.
▪ They wore scarlet and gold uniforms and the shining, close-fitting plastic caps that were the sign of their judicial function.
▪ The cardinals joined in all the rapidly growing administrative and judicial functions of the papal court.
▪ The judicial function is that of interpretation; it does not include the power of amendment under the guise of interpretation.
▪ Expressing misgivings about tactics-almost invariably conducted as part of undercover police operations-is not a judicial function.
▪ Robson recognized that, throughout history, courts have performed administrative functions and administrative bodies have undertaken judicial functions.
▪ Government ministers have legislative, executive and judicial functions.
▪ Each of the Houses discharges a quasi judicial function in relation to the regulation of its own affairs.
independence
▪ The cornerstone of that ideology is the doctrine of judicial independence, to which we now turn.
▪ The constitutional reforms of July 1994 may foster greater judicial independence.
▪ After discreet soundings, they prudently abandoned the idea, which would have involved a major encroachment upon judicial independence.
inquiry
▪ Calls from every side for a full judicial inquiry into the whole affair grew louder.
▪ A judicial inquiry was ordered, but witnesses were threatened by the police and none would testify.
▪ Pretoria refuses demands for judicial inquiry into assassination squads De Klerk reformist image suffers as cover-up feared.
▪ Calls for a judicial inquiry are right.
▪ In response to Sikh accusations V. P. Singh agreed to the holding of a judicial inquiry into his death.
▪ Opposition parties reacted indignantly to Mr De Klerk's overnight announcement that he would not set up a judicial inquiry.
▪ He agreed that the aim should be a judicial inquiry.
interpretation
▪ We are not without judicial interpretation, therefore, both state and national, of the meaning of this clause.
▪ His uncompromising attitude is that our revered document is static and not subject to evolution or judicial interpretation.
intervention
▪ The rationale for judicial intervention on the Y level is more indirect.
▪ The basis for judicial intervention becomes clear and worrisome problems of jurisdictional versus non jurisdictional errors of law are left behind.
▪ As we shall see, judicial intervention was not noticeably restrained at this time in other political cockpits.
investigation
▪ A judicial investigation into his case ordered the arrest of a member of the national police.
▪ A judicial investigation implicated three members of the Caldas Battalion of the army.
▪ They remained under judicial investigation in connection with misuse of state funds.
office
▪ Taxation is an occasion when some one in judicial office will see your file and this will be a reflection on your firm.
▪ Other peers who hold or have held high judicial office may sit but rarely do so.
▪ The pope's household was fast developing into defined administrative and judicial offices.
▪ Can he be dismissed from his judicial office, and if so by whom?
▪ Those nominated by the President to high executive and judicial office must be accepted by the Senate.
officer
▪ A special cadre of judicial officers, the taxing masters, has been established to carry out this process.
power
▪ The second section of the third article of the constitution defines the extent of the judicial power of the United States.
▪ The pope's court had from very early times exercised judicial powers of extreme significance.
▪ One abuse that was prevalent during the Confederation was the exercise of judicial power by the state legislatures.
▪ Sovereignty is exercised by the Pope, who has absolute legislative, executive and judicial power.
▪ He is charged with no duty at all related to either the legislative or judicial power.
▪ After the rebellion of 1817 - 18 the judicial powers of headmen were limited to trying petty cases.
▪ Given the context, a reasonable person could only conclude that the threat of judicial power was plainly implied.
procedure
▪ Government during this period sought to clarify the law and simplify judicial procedure.
▪ Sinhalese law was unwritten, and there was great flexibility both in its application and in judicial procedure.
proceeding
▪ It had, for example, appeared in previous judicial proceedings.
▪ In 1925 forty-five Chicago judges voted to prohibit cameras in state courtrooms during judicial proceedings.
process
▪ Officials sought to simplify the judicial process and clarify the criminal law.
▪ In other words, the judicial process has never been indifferent to technological progress.
▪ The essential feature of the judicial process which makes it unsuitable to deal with polycentric problems is its bipolar and adversary nature.
▪ But legal analysts caution that the judicial process could take years and that its outcome is difficult to predict.
▪ Some prisoners who would not normally have received the death sentence may have fallen victim to political interference in the judicial process.
▪ The decision concluded a judicial process that had been initiated on the petition of the Interior Minister, Maj.-Gen.
reform
▪ Confirmation that ministers were drawing up plans for local government and judicial reform was enough to satisfy many.
▪ The United States agreed to send money for social development programs, judicial reform and crop substitution.
review
▪ There is the added safeguard of judicial review.
▪ This is an awesome power that, even when exercised arbitrarily, will be immune from judicial review.
▪ I would not afford the remedy of judicial review in all those cases - far from it.
▪ It is concerned with defining the scope of judicial review.
▪ The number of applications for judicial review has none the less increased significantly over the past decade.
▪ There is before the court an application for judicial review.
▪ Woolwich challenged by judicial review the validity of the particular regulations which had this effect.
▪ The High Court will hold a judicial review to see if the inquest verdicts can be overturned.
scrutiny
▪ This is judicial scrutiny and the power of the courts to regulate telephone-tapping and to deal with illegal or improper conduct.
▪ Those classifications would be free from exacting judicial scrutiny.
▪ Congress no longer can choose Supreme Court nominees -- a cozy practice that helped shield legislators from judicial scrutiny.
structure
▪ In general, the judicial structures are dependent on political power for their own power and survival.
▪ The discussion of the judiciary asserts that every set of judicial structures is political.
▪ Even when the judicial structure does strive to maintain some political independence, it still might respond to political pressure.
▪ The legal system and the set of judicial structures in every political system are political.
▪ Many political systems have constituted judicial structures whose primary role is, or at least appears to be, adjudication.
system
▪ The judicial system now had to protect creditors instead of debtors.
▪ The lawyers move on, all having done their jobs, all having bowed to the dictates of an adversarial judicial system.
▪ A Court Inspectorate will improve the efficiency of our often outdated judicial system.
▪ Most judicial systems also have subsystems that are responsible for different aspects of adjudication.
▪ In no small measure this is due to the concept of cruelty with which the judicial system has operated.
▪ In Great Britain, one major judicial system is responsible for criminal law and a second handles civil law.
▪ This can be seen most clearly in the operation of the judicial system.
▪ Determining the extent of the evidence against Berenson is difficult, because her defense was limited by the judicial system here.
view
▪ Note the indefinite article - A judicial view, not the judicial view.
▪ Is the Secretary of State required by law to adopt the judicial view of the tariff?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Given the context, a reasonable person could only conclude that the threat of judicial power was plainly implied.
▪ However, the better judicial and quasi-judicial appointments generally go to barristers.
▪ In Court their barrister Ian Glen asked for a judicial review.
▪ The applicant then applied to the High Court for judicial review of these decisions.
▪ There is no right of appeal against the Commissioners decision, but the possibility of judicial review is available.
▪ Those classifications would be free from exacting judicial scrutiny.
▪ Woolwich challenged by judicial review the validity of the particular regulations which had this effect.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Judicial

Judicial \Ju*di"cial\, a. [L. judicialis, fr. judicium judgment, fr. judex judge: cf. OF. judicial. See Judge.]

  1. Pertaining or appropriate to courts of justice, or to a judge; practiced or conformed to in the administration of justice; sanctioned or ordered by a court; as, judicial power; judicial proceedings; a judicial sale. ``Judicial massacres.''
    --Macaulay.

    Not a moral but a judicial law, and so was abrogated.
    --Milton.

  2. Fitted or apt for judging or deciding; as, a judicial mind; judicial temperament.

  3. Belonging to the judiciary, as distinguished from legislative, administrative, or executive. See Executive.

  4. Judicious. [Obs.]
    --B. Jonson.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
judicial

late 14c., from Latin iudicalis "of or belonging to a court of justice," from iudicium "judgment, decision," from iudicem (see judge (v.)). Related: Judicially.

Wiktionary
judicial

a. Of or relating to a court of law, or to the administration of justice. n. That branch of government which is responsible for maintaining the courts of law and for the administration of justice.

WordNet
judicial
  1. adj. decreed by or proceeding from a court of justice; "a judicial decision"

  2. belonging or appropriate to the office of a judge; "judicial robes"

  3. relating to the administration of justice or the function of a judge; "judicial system" [syn: juridical, juridic]

  4. expressing careful judgment; "discriminative censure"; "a biography ...appreciative and yet judicial in purpose"-Tyler Dennett [syn: discriminative]

Wikipedia

Usage examples of "judicial".

Whitman was asked whether Bush should have an abortion litmus test for the Supreme Court, she boasted that as governor of New Jersey she had abjured litmus tests for her judicial nominees.

But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.

Daklar Bolbay lodged her complaint against you, an adjudicator ordered you placed under judicial scrutiny.

Consequently in proceedings before a legislative court which are judicial in nature and admit of a final judgment the Supreme Court may be vested with appellate jurisdiction.

President and therefore impliedly beyond those provisions of the act authorizing judicial review of board orders.

In this extremity the Abbe Dutheil took upon himself to propose to the bishop a last resource, the adoption of which caused the introduction into this judicial drama of a remarkable personage, who serves as a bond between all the figures brought upon the scene of it, and who, by ways familiar to Providence, was destined to lead Madame Graslin along a path where her virtues were to shine with greater brilliancy as a noble benefactress and an angelic Christian woman.

Underwood, a crawling, shambling, shuffling, ignorant demagogue who had set a new standard of judicial honor and dignity.

House exercises a judicial function, as in judging of elections or determining whether a member should be expelled, it is clearly entitled to compel the attendance of witnesses to disclose the facts upon which its action must be based.

The Comitia of the Centuries still retained the election of the higher magistrates, the power of enacting laws, of declaring war and making peace, and also the highest judicial functions.

United States is conferred by other provisions of the Constitution, such as those which declare the extent of the judicial power of the United States, which authorize all legislation necessary and proper for executing the powers vested by the Constitution in the Government of the United States, and which declare the supremacy of the authority of the National Government within the limits of the Constitution.

But the Senate Democrats still had an arrow left in their quiver-the unconstitutional and unprecedented filibuster of judicial nominees.

By using a filibuster, or even threatening to invoke the filibuster procedure against a judicial nominee, a small group of senators can prevent a vote for confirmation from ever taking place.

Senate rules forbid the minority party from using the filibuster in cases of judicial nominations.

I now called to mind what I had read of certain colleges in old times, where judicial astrology, geomancy, necromancy, and other forbidden and magical sciences were taught.

In England all judicial proceedings are conducted with the utmost punctuality, and everything went off as I had arranged.