"judicial sanction" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to the official approval or authorization given by a court of law. Example: The judge imposed a harsh judicial sanction on the company for violating environmental regulations, including heavy fines and mandatory community service.
Other judges have escaped judicial sanction but may be glad there is no appeal to panels of literary critics.
The commander's appeal to legal doctrine is scarcely likely to receive judicial sanction, unless he turns the courts into a pliable instrument for his own personal rule.
In Britain anti-social behaviour orders—a judicial sanction for disruptive conduct that falls short of criminality were widely used against the rowdy, and worse, in the 2000s.
"Nevertheless, it is clear that this decision, affirming the August 2012 lower court finding, amounts to judicial sanction of immunity for Israeli military forces when they commit injustices and human rights violations.
Poland is so far the only country to face judicial sanction for participating in the CIA's so-called rendition programme, under which suspected terrorists detained throughout the world were shipped to third countries for interrogation in the hopes of evading legal authority.
Well described as "an institutionalized form of exposure reduction,"(Dugan et al. 2003, pg 174) they provide enforceable judicial sanction to the separation of an abused person from her abuser.
Lydia Prieg, banking researcher at the New Economics Foundation, said judicial sanctions alone were unlikely to change behaviour in Britain's banks.
This comment earned equal parts silence and snickers, but as soon as Mr. Redington touched on the subject of "judicial sanctions" the din went down.
The point of Mariella's article was not to criticise hard-working Foreign Office staff, nor was it to suggest that British citizens should be free to travel abroad immune from local laws or judicial sanctions.
A bank based in Jordan that had been accused of providing financial services to terrorists was hit with judicial sanctions on Tuesday for repeatedly failing to obey a court order to produce requested documents in the case — a six-year-old lawsuit filed by the victims of terrorist attacks.
Although they did, of course, avoid the legal and judicial sanctions which they deserved, both received a harsher punishment - having their true natures exposed to the world - and a much more severe penalty: life sentences in the court of public opinion.
