noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a sense of justice/fairness
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I appealed to her sense of justice.
a system of government/education/justice etc
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Why was Britain so slow to develop a national system of education?
administer justice/punishment etc
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It is not the job of the police to administer justice; that falls to the courts.
bring sb to justice (= catch and punish someone for their actions )
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The authorities swore that the killers would be brought to justice.
chief justice
dispense justice (= decide whether or not someone is guilty of a crime and what punishment they should receive )
escape justice (= not be caught and punished )
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These terrorists must not be allowed to escape justice.
foreign/justice/finance etc ministry
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a Defence Ministry spokesman
Justice of the Peace
Ministry of Justice, the
miscarriage of justice
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the victim of a serious miscarriage of justice
obstruction of justice
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He was found guilty of obstruction of justice .
parody of justice (= very unfair )
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The trial was a parody of justice .
poetic justice
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After the way she treated Sam, it’s only poetic justice that Dave left her.
the criminal justice system
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How effective is our criminal justice system?
travesty of justice
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O'Brien described his trial as a travesty of justice .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
chief
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Those who refused, including the chief justice , lost their jobs.
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Overall, Lucas, who retired in April 1996, was a successful chief justice .
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The senior judge in question is former chief justice Eusoff Chin, who ran the judiciary throughout the Anwar trial.
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I was to visit all the chief justices east of the Mississippi.
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He became chief justice of the circuit for the 1288 Dorset eyre.
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This was the chief justice of the state supreme court!
civil
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Yet solicitors had considerable anxieties about aspects of the preparations for this drastic re-engineering of the civil justice system.
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Six months is not a long time in which to evaluate the most radical overhaul of the civil justice system since 1875.
criminal
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In the administration of criminal justice the principle of independence from the wishes of government is of supreme importance.
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The path Thompson chose was to study criminal justice because it was something he felt he could relate to.
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The principle that justice should, as far as possible, be open is central to our system of criminal justice.
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An inside look at the criminal justice system was the right kind of project, he thought.
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Thomas also avoided taking avowedly conservative positions on controversial issues such as criminal justice and abortion.
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Violanti, a former state trooper, is a professor of criminal justice at Rochester Institute of Technology.
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The prison system, Woolf says, is part of the criminal justice system.
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The younger boy faces a similar charge in the juvenile criminal justice system.
juvenile
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This then linked the juvenile justice system with the overall provision of social work.
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He has signed into law several of his top agenda items, including a tougher juvenile justice code.
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Allowing that possibility has always been the chief point of the juvenile justice system.
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The younger boy faces a similar charge in the juvenile criminal justice system.
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Jim Leach are mentoring youths in the juvenile justice system.
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He said Bush appealed to women voters in 1994 by focusing on education, welfare reform and juvenile justice .
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Michigan was another state that rewrote its juvenile justice policies in the 1990s.
natural
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If he perceives that there is a likelihood of bias, the rules of natural justice have been broken. 2.
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On this view the distinction between the application of the terms natural justice and fairness is linguistic rather than substantive.
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The first requirement of natural justice is the right of the prisoner to make representations.
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Some commentators take a different view, seeing a broader significance in the shift from natural justice to fairness.
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The courts have also addressed themselves to the question of whether natural justice or fairness applies to matters of a legislative nature.
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A corollary of this view was that the content of the rules of natural justice could be relatively fired and certain.
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Mixed in with the plea for self-empowering was this justification by appeal to natural justice .
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They have always presented a problem for the application of natural justice .
poetic
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Just when you least expect it, she thought, poetic justice is waiting right around the corner.
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And would it not be poetic justice if he who had devised it, eventually died by it?
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It stands for poetic justice , you under-stand.
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If that were so, subsequent events had some of the characteristics of poetic justice .
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Once again the principle of { poetic justice } is demonstrated.
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Yet we have already noted how, in terms of poetic justice for instance, fabliau morality is often conventional in precisely these terms.
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In doing so she has laid herself low as well. Poetic justice .
rough
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For that he was put to death and there was, in one respect, a rough justice about it.
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So there was rough justice in the world.
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On the other hand this meted out only a very rough justice to owners.
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Exiled by Bolcarro to that judicial Siberia, Judge Lyttle applied his own rough justice .
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Here rappers become vigilantes or revolutionaries: machines for dispensing rough justice or revenge.
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Perhaps this was rough justice for my having ridden that one mile on the workmen's lorry on the sixth day.
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But the appetite for rough justice which the gun-toting sheriff satisfied does not easily go away.
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As it happens, there'd be a certain rough justice if I got a wage from it.
social
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Delivery on social justice now seems further away than ever.
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But moving towards social justice means also establishing a just system.
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It therefore serves the cause of social justice to take groups as well as individuals into account.
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Much of his commitment to social justice came late in life.
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It also attracts many from the middle or professional classes who have a commitment to social and economic justice .
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The services focus on multiculturalism and social justice .
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Democratic principles enjoin it; social justice requires it; national safety demands it.
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But I was a greedy child who knew nothing of cliches or social justice .
supreme
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He made no promise that he would name centrist, moderate Supreme Court justices if given the opportunity.
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The keynote speaker was Arthur Goldberg, now a Supreme Court justice .
■ NOUN
court
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He made no promise that he would name centrist, moderate Supreme Court justices if given the opportunity.
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The keynote speaker was Arthur Goldberg, now a Supreme Court justice .
minister
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The news leaked out last weekend, and pressure has mounted on the justice minister , Oliviero Diliberto, to investigate.
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Earlier this month the justice minister was forced to depart.
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Former justice minister Tzahi Hanegbi faces indictment on corruption charges.
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The justice minister is currently being investigated for insulting the police, who wanted to ban the League's praetorian guard.
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But the justice minister , Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, is against this.
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Mr Salazar is the ninth justice minister since August 1986.
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Wasn't it Lord Chief Justice Hewitt who first made this remark in 1967 when justice minister ?
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In 1967 he entered Lester Pearson's cabinet as justice minister .
system
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Meanwhile, prison conditions have deteriorated and the public has lost confidence in the criminal justice system .
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The bomber in Vallejo, police said, was part of a plot to disrupt the criminal justice system there.
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Read in studio A senior police officer has criticised the way the criminal justice system handles young offenders.
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It should change the argument about capital punishment and other aspects of the criminal justice system .
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Is it a prison or the whole criminal justice system ?
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Allowing that possibility has always been the chief point of the juvenile justice system .
■ VERB
administer
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What happened there represents a frontal challenge to how the courts, the states and the federal government administer justice .
bring
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And none of the killers has been brought to justice .
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Angela Lansbury must be brought to justice for the bloodbath that is Cabot Cove.
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Murderers had been brought to justice in only a small number of the cases referred to.
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I would bring justice to the city.
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This text gives us a new basis for co-operation with our partners in bringing these criminals to justice .
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We should have produced campaigns by now to identify and bring to justice the inevitable sanctions-busters.
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Ratko Mladic, are brought to justice for alleged war crimes.
demand
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Summoning the umpires he demanded justice .
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Always there to denounce the system, demand justice .
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Public protests demanding justice in the Gongadze case have mostly fizzled out, partly thanks to police harassment of demonstrators.
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An outraged public demanded swift justice and retribution.
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They demand a system of justice that is responsive to them.
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When John demanded justice , the king refused to hear him.
dispense
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We could dispense some justice and hang him from the bowsprit to save the courts the trouble.
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Here rappers become vigilantes or revolutionaries: machines for dispensing rough justice or revenge.
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A new international law made it a duty to dispense justice to victims, whatever reason of state might be invoked.
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Who dispenses justice round here? 18.
do
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No way at all that a few hundred words are going to do justice to this deeply affecting novel.
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Rex who admitted to being the worst cook on board, was determined to do them justice .
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I'd do you justice , Max.
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Many are drunks-but that term does not do justice to the devastation they embody.
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But Ifor can, and now will, do more to pursue justice as well as peace.
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And the word affective scarcely did justice to the nature of those characteristics.
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Nor do five pages do justice to the debate over the meaning of the Second Amendment.
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Doctrinaire denial of a generational injustice does no justice either to the truth or to the victims.
escape
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Some critics might favour the pragmatic solution of convicting both, to ensure that the guilty party does not escape justice .
pervert
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They are also accused of conspiring to pervert the course of justice .
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Archer denies perjury, perverting the course of justice and using a false instrument.
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The friend, Ted Francis, denies perverting the course of justice .
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It is claimed Metclafe inflicted grievous bodily harm to a man and then attempted to pervert the course of justice .
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Six officers were originally charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and the seventh with unlawful wounding.
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But tonight Crabb is starting a life sentence for murder and Taylor was given nine years for perverting the course of justice .
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Another Leeds player, defender Michael Duberry, pleaded not guilty to conspiracy to pervert the course of justice .
rule
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Furthermore, the implementation of some conceptions of the good is incompatible with the principles of justice and is ruled out altogether.
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If the justices rule for Clinton, the lawsuit will be put on hold for four more years.
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The justices did not rule that the law is constitutional.
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Dissenting justices said the ruling takes away the privacy protections of tens of millions of innocent passengers.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
appeal to sb's better nature/sense of justice etc
in the interest(s) of justice/safety/efficiency etc
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Extending the ban to wedding rings, in the interests of safety, say the company, has upset some workers.
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Ideally, the student should be making all the decisions and choosing actions in the interests of safety and efficiency.
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If the alarm gets no response, the timer goes ahead and switches off in the interest of safety and economy.
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The mature glider pilot would never hesitate to make a fool of himself in the interests of safety.
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We should be able to state which fuse we require when we buy a plug in the interest of safety and economics.
natural justice/law
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At present rules of a legislative nature are not generally subject to natural justice. 2.
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But Aristotle did not conceive of natural laws based on mathematical principles.
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If he perceives that there is a likelihood of bias, the rules of natural justice have been broken. 2.
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It may have failed in the course of the inquiry to comply with the requirements of natural justice.
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Lord Denning restricted the full application of the rules of natural justice on the ground of national security.
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Some commentators take a different view, seeing a broader significance in the shift from natural justice to fairness.
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The injunction is important in public law in the context of the rules of natural justice.
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They have always presented a problem for the application of natural justice.
pervert the course of justice
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Another Leeds player, defender Michael Duberry, pleaded not guilty to conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
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Archer denies perjury, perverting the course of justice and using a false instrument.
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But tonight Crabb is starting a life sentence for murder and Taylor was given nine years for perverting the course of justice.
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It is claimed Metclafe inflicted grievous bodily harm to a man and then attempted to pervert the course of justice.
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Six officers were originally charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and the seventh with unlawful wounding.
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The friend, Ted Francis, denies perverting the course of justice.
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They are also accused of conspiring to pervert the course of justice.
rough justice
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the rough justice of the Old West
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But the appetite for rough justice which the gun-toting sheriff satisfied does not easily go away.
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Exiled by Bolcarro to that judicial Siberia, Judge Lyttle applied his own rough justice.
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For that he was put to death and there was, in one respect, a rough justice about it.
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Here rappers become vigilantes or revolutionaries: machines for dispensing rough justice or revenge.
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It seemed to her to be the nearest thing to rough justice that would ever present itself.
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On the other hand this meted out only a very rough justice to owners.
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Perhaps this was rough justice for my having ridden that one mile on the workmen's lorry on the sixth day.
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So there was rough justice in the world.
the rules of natural justice
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A corollary of this view was that the content of the rules of natural justice could be relatively fired and certain.
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An obvious example would be if it reached a decision in flagrant breach of the rules of natural justice.
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If he perceives that there is a likelihood of bias, the rules of natural justice have been broken. 2.
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Lord Denning restricted the full application of the rules of natural justice on the ground of national security.
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Similarly, a requirement that the expert observe the rules of natural justice could be made a contractual obligation.
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The injunction is important in public law in the context of the rules of natural justice.
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When do the rules of natural justice apply?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Children have a strong sense of justice .
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It's up to the courts to uphold justice - you can't take the law into your own hands.
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It is clear that "liberty and justice for all" is still a goal rather than a reality in the U.S.
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Many people no longer have confidence in the criminal justice system.