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.