(a.) Of or pertaining to courts of judicature, or legal tribunals; judicial; as, a judiciary proceeding.
(n.) That branch of government in which judicial power is vested; the system of courts of justice in a country; the judges, taken collectively; as, an independent judiciary; the senate committee on the judiciary.
Example Sentences:
(1) Many Hong Kong residents fear that Beijing – which governs the region under the principle of "one country, two systems" – has been encroaching on their civil liberties, free press and independent judiciary.
(2) Iowa senator Chuck Grassley, the Republican who chairs the Senate judiciary committee, introduced legislation on Tuesday that would crack down on jurisdictions that provide safe harbor for undocumented migrants by withholding some federal funding for state and local entities if they decline to cooperate with the government on the holding or transferring of undocumented migrants with criminal records.
(3) The Russians call it [the Crimea operation] ‘fast power’ – there are no democratic encumbrances, executive power is sovereign, the legislature, the military, the media, the judiciary are compliant.
(4) In a democracy, she said, it was important that rights and responsibilities be decided by a judiciary more reflective of society as a whole "and not just a very small section of it".
(5) Maryann Hunter, a deputy director with responsibility for regulation of foreign banking organisations, declined to tell a Senate judiciary committee hearing if, or when, the Fed received the data leak.
(6) Testifying before the Senate judiciary committee on Wednesday, John Lewis, a congressman from Georgia, said the court's ruling had left him devastated.
(7) This included guaranteeing: independence of the judiciary, the rule of law and our rights and freedoms and, in particular, that we would move steadily towards genuine universal suffrage.
(8) And secretary of state Hillary Clinton, visiting Hungary in 2011, pleaded for “a real commitment to the independence of the judiciary, a free press, and governmental transparency”.
(9) Iran's English language TV channel, Press TV, reported on Monday that according to Iran's East Azerbaijan Prosecutor Malek Ajdar Sharifi "the behaviour of the Germans showed they entered Iran as spies and tried to create negative atmosphere against Iran and the East Azerbaijan judiciary."
(10) Judge Aydin Akay was detained in September as part of a crackdown on the judiciary following the coup attempt.
(11) Public interest was eventually served, but the judiciary does not seem willing to learn the lessons of Trafigura.
(12) But somebody has to preside over the most demanding criminal appeals and lead the judiciary of England and Wales.
(13) The problem with this argument is that all publicly available evidence presented to Congress, the judiciary, or independent executive branch review suggests that the effect of bulk collection has been marginal .
(14) Accustomed to a world in which violence is pervasive, life is cheap and the public authorities – police and judiciary – cannot be relied upon to keep the peace or administer justice, many of Brazil's young men go armed and ready to use their weapons.
(15) The lord chief justice, Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd , is head of the judiciary.
(16) Lord Judge has seniority in the judiciary of England and Wales, serving as lord chief justice in that realm, as the article noted.
(17) Ja'fari-Dowlatabadi told a press conference on Sunday that Shourd would be freed on health grounds but criticised the initial announcement of her release, saying it had been made while the judiciary was still working on the case.
(18) Others are unhappy about the president's clampdowns on the private media and the weakening of the judiciary.
(19) It’s of the utmost importance that the judiciary should not be immune from robust criticism,” he said.
(20) Iran's semi-official Isna news agency quoted a judiciary official in Isfahan, saying that an explosion had been heard.
Juridical
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to a judge or to jurisprudence; acting in the distribution of justice; used in courts of law; according to law; legal; as, juridical law.
Example Sentences:
(1) The ability to think in terms of criminalistics and the corresponding working procedures has always been a crucial precondition for the forensic physician, since forensic medicine is the application of medical knowledge for juridical purposes.
(2) The additional juridical protection of a microbial strain is not necessary.
(3) "The United Kingdom lacks any right at all to pretend to alter the juridical status of these territories even with the disguise of a hypothetical referendum," said Argentina's foreign minister, Hector Timerman.
(4) The cumulating data serves multidisciplinary sciences, juridical and insurance purposes and legislation.
(5) Although all protective measures taken by the physician against his patient may be useful from the juridical point of view, they often turn out to be insufficient in case of legal action when the burden of proof regarding the information given to the patient lies on the physician.
(6) In this regard, he suggests to avoid any strict qualification, even in the evaluation of the most abnormal processes of psyche and he recommends--in conformity with a few juridical trends appeared in some countries--not to limit the investigation on the ability of understanding and will to the moment when a crime is committed, but to extend it to a single evaluation of the whole personality of the criminal.
(7) This procedure avoids to strain the relation between physician and patient with juridical problems, a situation which is not at all desired by the wellminded patient seeking for help as well as by the responsible physician.
(8) He concludes that the Federal Court was successful in it's attempt to draw the juridical arguments near to those of forensic medicine.
(9) The present article deals with the assumptions and preconditions, of both an objective and subjective character, underlying the application of this juridical institute, and also tackles, by referring to some cases previously occurred, the problems posed by the various types of subjects.
(10) Legal induced abortion in Switzerland is authorized for medical, eugenic, or juridic reasons, with more or less liberal legislation according to the different cantons.
(11) The present obligation to notify according to the burial laws of some states applies to pathologists even when possible medical contributary faults are established, but he faces a dilemma which cannot be solved juridically at present.
(12) A register of applications of six mental hospitals in the northern part of The Netherlands reveals that there are significant differences between admitted and refused patients with regard to juridical status, urgency, catchment area, referral source, age and type of problems.
(13) Also juridical and psychological problems are discussed.
(14) In Denmark the desire for psychiatric cooperation within the juridical system has on the whole been on the decline during the past decades.
(15) The Author points out that the recent contributions to the study of the crime require an improvement of the traditional principles followed for the investigation and qualification of the crime, as regards both its psychological dynamics and any juridical implications.
(16) Many new problems and dilemmas have occurred in the practice of medical geneticists with the development of human genetics and its subdisciplines--molecular genetics, ethic genetics and juridical genetics.
(17) A constant tendency to improve professional and general knowledge among nurses had led recently to juridical regulations requiring that nurses holding managerial posts possess a higher education.
(18) It is the continuation of several anterior declarations which principles it recalls in its preamble: fundamental responsibility of the family for the care and the protection of the child, necessity of a social and juridical child protection depending on the state, vital role of an international cooperation so that the children rights will become a reality.
(19) The juridical classification of the homicides was attempted or completed first-degree murder in 17 and attempted or completed second-degree murder in 6 cases.
(20) The problem could be a “divide et impera” (divide and rule): a balkanisation, yes, but one in which agents - commercial, political, or juridical - exploit walls and barriers to impose their informational monopoly locally, and have the last say on the region of the infosphere they control.