The phrase "adjudicate against" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in legal contexts when referring to a decision made by a judge or an adjudicative body that is unfavorable to one party.
Example: "The court decided to adjudicate against the defendant, resulting in a ruling in favor of the plaintiff."
Alternatives: "rule against" or "decide against".
He said: "Photographers are not signatories to the PCC so the PCC can't adjudicate against them, but the PCC can inform newspapers that a specific person does not consent to being approached or hounded.
Following the publication of Leveson's report, a new regulator was created, the Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso), which has the power to adjudicate against newspapers and issue fines of up to £1m.
Statement from Lancôme regarding the adjudication against Teint Miracle: We are disappointed to learn that the ASA has adjudicated against our press advertisement for Teint Miracle.
A spokeswoman for L'Oréal on Wednesday said the company would not provide additional comments, but provided the following statements in response to the news: Statement from Maybelline regarding the adjudication against The Eraser: We are disappointed to learn that the ASA has adjudicated against our press advertisement for The Eraser.
And in 2006, he had aides contact the finance commissioner to try to overturn a parking ticket adjudicated against his dentist, and to suggest "investigating this questionable judge".
A Standards & Petitions Sub-Committee, independently appointed by and accountable to the SSC Chair, serves to adjudicate petitions against particular assessments or disputes related to the Red List Categories and Criteria.
A proposed government tribunal to adjudicate complaints against the news media has elicited fear among journalists that it could be used to muzzle them.
In practice, however, the current government is less tolerant of dissenting voices than Mandela's was, and the ruling party is now proposing the establishment of a Media Appeals Tribunal to adjudicate complaints against the press.
The international criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), set up in 1993 to adjudicate crimes against humanity and crimes of genocide committed in the former Yugoslavia, was about to sentence Radovan Karadzic, one of the worst criminals of the Balkan wars of the 1990s and, more generally, of the period since World War II.
"The transit authority's practice of adjudicating cases against riders who are unable to understand the legal proceedings against them is grossly unfair," the letter, written by Christopher Dunn and Andrew L. Kalloch, lawyers for the civil liberties group, said.
Literally, "against the person". In personam refers to courts' power to adjudicate matters directed against a party, as distinguished from in-rem proceedings over disputed property.
