The phrase "authority to reopen" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where permission or power is granted to revisit or reconsider a previous decision or case.
Example: "The committee has the authority to reopen the investigation if new evidence comes to light."
Alternatives: "power to revisit" or "permission to reexamine".
At which point, Julie heard herself saying: "Excuse me, but you are the police aren't you?" Lawyers for the West Midlands police argued that the inquest should not go ahead, and that the coroner did not have the authority to reopen it.
And governors in at least four western states - Utah, South Dakota, Arizona and Colorado - have asked for authority to reopen national parks within their borders because of the economic impact of the closures.
Furthermore, the Pakistani Foreign Ministry had been asked to contact the Swiss authorities to reopen the cases, he said.
The court gave Mr. Ashraf until Wednesday to ask Swiss authorities to reopen the case against Mr. Zardari.
Nicholas Hildyard, for social justice campaigner The Corner House, called on the UK authorities to reopen its probe into the Al-Yamamah deal.
Scotland Yard urged Portuguese authorities to reopen the search for Madeleine McCann today as detectives said there were 195 potential leads to finding her alive.
As the weekend approached, the British government launched a sustained attempt to persuade the local authorities to reopen as many footpaths as possible.
Greenpeace said yesterday it had called on Japanese authorities to reopen an investigation into its allegations of widespread corruption in the programme.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistani government officials told the Supreme Court on Wednesday that the country's top anticorruption agency had asked the Swiss authorities to reopen corruption charges against President Asif Ali Zardari.
Prime minister Yousaf Raza Gilani was formally charged with contempt of court on Monday, over his refusal to follow court orders to ask Swiss authorities to reopen a dormant corruption case against Pakistani President Asif Zardari.
New York state senator James Sanders, from the borough of Queens, called for state and federal authorities to reopen the investigation into Malcolm X's murder, which has been a sore point for generations.
