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If there are two Lord Justices of the Appeal with the same surname, then the junior Lord Justice will take their first name as part of their judicial title. [2] When two or more Lord Justices are referred at the same time in a law report, their post-nominal letters become LJJ.
British, Australian, New Zealand, American, and Canadian English generally use judgment when referring to a court's formal ruling. [7] [8] Judgement is commonly used in the United Kingdom when referring to a non-legal decision. [9] Translations from non-English texts demonstrate varied spelling of the word.
Kangaroo court is an informal pejorative term for a court that ignores recognized standards of law or justice, carries little or no official standing in the territory within which it resides, and is typically convened ad hoc. [1] A kangaroo court may ignore due process and come to a predetermined conclusion.
Statue of Lady Justice blindfolded and holding a balance and a sword, outside the Court of Final Appeal, Hong Kong. Lady Justice (Latin: Iustitia) is an allegorical personification of the moral force in judicial systems. [1] [2] Her attributes are scales, a sword and sometimes a blindfold. She often appears as a pair with Prudentia.
Procedural justice concerns the fairness (formal equal opportunity) and the transparency of the processes by which decisions are made, and may be contrasted with distributive justice (fairness in the distribution of rights and outcomes), and retributive justice (fairness in the punishment of wrongs). Hearing all parties before a decision is ...
A legal remedy, also referred to as judicial relief or a judicial remedy, is the means with which a court of law, usually in the exercise of civil law jurisdiction, enforces a right, imposes a penalty, or makes another court order to impose its will in order to compensate for the harm of a wrongful act inflicted upon an individual.
Judgement (or judgment) [1] is the evaluation of given circumstances to make a decision. [2] Judgement is also the ability to make considered decisions. The term has at least five distinct uses. In an informal context, a judgement is opinion expressed as fact. Formally, a judgement is the act of evaluating the validity or correctness of a ...
The Supreme Court Building houses the Supreme Court of the United States, the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States.. The judiciary (also known as the judicial system, judicature, judicial branch, judiciative branch, and court or judiciary system) is the system of courts that adjudicates legal disputes/disagreements and interprets, defends, and applies the law in legal cases.