Sentence examples for judicial nature from inspiring English sources

Reviewing Wilde's calamitous experience with the English legal system, the semantic association of 'persecution' with 'prosecution' seems unaccidental, given the judicial nature of his oppression.

(8) In subsection (7) "international court" means the International Court of Justice or any other court or tribunal which exercises jurisdiction, or performs functions of a judicial nature, in pursuance of: (a) an agreement to which the United Kingdom or Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom is a party, or (b) a resolution of the Security Council or General Assembly of the United Nations.

A full overview of all existing trading schemes and proposals is presented, showing inter alia the outreach and judicial nature of the systems, the range and nature of emission reduction or credit purchase targets, allocation methods used, links to external systems, and possibilities for the use of project-based credits.

This concept presupposes public officials delegating matters of national importance to unelected bureaucrats or conferring upon themselves decisions of a judicial nature and immunity from those decisions.

The quasi-judicial nature of the process, however, means it is thought unlikely to report before the opening ceremony.

Hunt and his permanent secretary, Jonathan Stephens, are facing questions over the extent to which they briefed Adam Smith, Hunt's special adviser, on how to handle contacts with News Corp when handling a decision of a quasi-judicial nature.

What's more, the PUC's practices "are inconsistent with the quasi-judicial nature of most major proceedings".

Again, much of this work is actually judicial in nature and should be kept wholly distinct from government".

Commission, in political science, a multiheaded body created to perform a particular function, whether it be administrative, legislative, or judicial in nature.

She said one of the issues was whether removing a person's citizenship "would be treated by the courts as something that is akin to punishment and therefore exclusively judicial in nature".

(1986), In this case, the issue was whether a body discharging functions that are quasi-judicial in nature and which wields considerable de facto public powers is amenable to judicial review.