The phrase "abuse of procedure" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in legal or formal contexts to describe a situation where established procedures are misused or exploited for improper purposes.
Example: "The court found that there was an abuse of procedure in the way the evidence was presented."
Alternatives: "misuse of process" or "improper use of procedure".
"Any suggestion the agency might do otherwise would be an abuse of procedure, which we would immediately challenge in court".
Jim Killock, from the Open Rights Group, said: "Laying 18 pages of clauses before the Lords to insert into an already complicated bill is an abuse of procedure.
"My client is outraged that the 17th chamber of the court has described this as an abuse of procedure as he was simply exercising judicial means available to him to request that his fundamental rights are respected".
RMT general secretary Bob Crow said: "RMT will not tolerate the cavalier abuse of procedures, agreements and pay negotiations which has led to the complete breakdown of industrial relations on this vital section of the London transport operation.
Abuse of the procedure has declined strikingly.
"Not only is this sentence wrong and unfair, but it is a total abuse of judicial procedure," Mr. Mo said.
Veteran Labour MP David Winnick, a member of the home affairs select committee, said: "I consider this to be an outright abuse of parliamentary procedure".
This project failed when the Nazis managed to take power through the kind of abuse of constitutional procedure that Schmitt had warned against (Kennedy 2004, 154 83).
Both parties at times have expressed frustration over abuse of this procedure at one time or another and both parties have an interest in reform of the filibuster.
"I think the DUP's use of the veto to block marriage equality is definitely an abuse of the procedure," he says".
Their justifications have ranged from the hypocritical (abuse of Senate procedure) to the nonsensical (being gay is a choice, whereas religion is not) to the irrational (the bill will prosecute "thought crimes").
