JUSTICE


Meaning of JUSTICE in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a sense of justice/fairness

I appealed to her sense of justice.

a system of government/education/justice etc

Why was Britain so slow to develop a national system of education?

administer justice/punishment etc

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 )

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 )

These terrorists must not be allowed to escape justice.

foreign/justice/finance etc ministry

a Defence Ministry spokesman

Justice of the Peace

Ministry of Justice, the

miscarriage of justice

the victim of a serious miscarriage of justice

obstruction of justice

He was found guilty of obstruction of justice .

parody of justice (= very unfair )

The trial was a parody of justice .

poetic justice

After the way she treated Sam, it’s only poetic justice that Dave left her.

the criminal justice system

How effective is our criminal justice system?

travesty of justice

O'Brien described his trial as a travesty of justice .

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

chief

Those who refused, including the chief justice , lost their jobs.

Overall, Lucas, who retired in April 1996, was a successful chief justice .

The senior judge in question is former chief justice Eusoff Chin, who ran the judiciary throughout the Anwar trial.

I was to visit all the chief justices east of the Mississippi.

He became chief justice of the circuit for the 1288 Dorset eyre.

This was the chief justice of the state supreme court!

civil

Yet solicitors had considerable anxieties about aspects of the preparations for this drastic re-engineering of the civil justice system.

Six months is not a long time in which to evaluate the most radical overhaul of the civil justice system since 1875.

criminal

In the administration of criminal justice the principle of independence from the wishes of government is of supreme importance.

The path Thompson chose was to study criminal justice because it was something he felt he could relate to.

The principle that justice should, as far as possible, be open is central to our system of criminal justice.

An inside look at the criminal justice system was the right kind of project, he thought.

Thomas also avoided taking avowedly conservative positions on controversial issues such as criminal justice and abortion.

Violanti, a former state trooper, is a professor of criminal justice at Rochester Institute of Technology.

The prison system, Woolf says, is part of the criminal justice system.

The younger boy faces a similar charge in the juvenile criminal justice system.

juvenile

This then linked the juvenile justice system with the overall provision of social work.

He has signed into law several of his top agenda items, including a tougher juvenile justice code.

Allowing that possibility has always been the chief point of the juvenile justice system.

The younger boy faces a similar charge in the juvenile criminal justice system.

Jim Leach are mentoring youths in the juvenile justice system.

He said Bush appealed to women voters in 1994 by focusing on education, welfare reform and juvenile justice .

Michigan was another state that rewrote its juvenile justice policies in the 1990s.

natural

If he perceives that there is a likelihood of bias, the rules of natural justice have been broken. 2.

On this view the distinction between the application of the terms natural justice and fairness is linguistic rather than substantive.

The first requirement of natural justice is the right of the prisoner to make representations.

Some commentators take a different view, seeing a broader significance in the shift from natural justice to fairness.

The courts have also addressed themselves to the question of whether natural justice or fairness applies to matters of a legislative nature.

A corollary of this view was that the content of the rules of natural justice could be relatively fired and certain.

Mixed in with the plea for self-empowering was this justification by appeal to natural justice .

They have always presented a problem for the application of natural justice .

poetic

Just when you least expect it, she thought, poetic justice is waiting right around the corner.

And would it not be poetic justice if he who had devised it, eventually died by it?

It stands for poetic justice , you under-stand.

If that were so, subsequent events had some of the characteristics of poetic justice .

Once again the principle of { poetic justice } is demonstrated.

Yet we have already noted how, in terms of poetic justice for instance, fabliau morality is often conventional in precisely these terms.

In doing so she has laid herself low as well. Poetic justice .

rough

For that he was put to death and there was, in one respect, a rough justice about it.

So there was rough justice in the world.

On the other hand this meted out only a very rough justice to owners.

Exiled by Bolcarro to that judicial Siberia, Judge Lyttle applied his own rough justice .

Here rappers become vigilantes or revolutionaries: machines for dispensing rough justice or revenge.

Perhaps this was rough justice for my having ridden that one mile on the workmen's lorry on the sixth day.

But the appetite for rough justice which the gun-toting sheriff satisfied does not easily go away.

As it happens, there'd be a certain rough justice if I got a wage from it.

social

Delivery on social justice now seems further away than ever.

But moving towards social justice means also establishing a just system.

It therefore serves the cause of social justice to take groups as well as individuals into account.

Much of his commitment to social justice came late in life.

It also attracts many from the middle or professional classes who have a commitment to social and economic justice .

The services focus on multiculturalism and social justice .

Democratic principles enjoin it; social justice requires it; national safety demands it.

But I was a greedy child who knew nothing of cliches or social justice .

supreme

He made no promise that he would name centrist, moderate Supreme Court justices if given the opportunity.

The keynote speaker was Arthur Goldberg, now a Supreme Court justice .

■ NOUN

court

He made no promise that he would name centrist, moderate Supreme Court justices if given the opportunity.

The keynote speaker was Arthur Goldberg, now a Supreme Court justice .

minister

The news leaked out last weekend, and pressure has mounted on the justice minister , Oliviero Diliberto, to investigate.

Earlier this month the justice minister was forced to depart.

Former justice minister Tzahi Hanegbi faces indictment on corruption charges.

The justice minister is currently being investigated for insulting the police, who wanted to ban the League's praetorian guard.

But the justice minister , Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, is against this.

Mr Salazar is the ninth justice minister since August 1986.

Wasn't it Lord Chief Justice Hewitt who first made this remark in 1967 when justice minister ?

In 1967 he entered Lester Pearson's cabinet as justice minister .

system

Meanwhile, prison conditions have deteriorated and the public has lost confidence in the criminal justice system .

The bomber in Vallejo, police said, was part of a plot to disrupt the criminal justice system there.

Read in studio A senior police officer has criticised the way the criminal justice system handles young offenders.

It should change the argument about capital punishment and other aspects of the criminal justice system .

Is it a prison or the whole criminal justice system ?

Allowing that possibility has always been the chief point of the juvenile justice system .

■ VERB

administer

What happened there represents a frontal challenge to how the courts, the states and the federal government administer justice .

bring

And none of the killers has been brought to justice .

Angela Lansbury must be brought to justice for the bloodbath that is Cabot Cove.

Murderers had been brought to justice in only a small number of the cases referred to.

I would bring justice to the city.

This text gives us a new basis for co-operation with our partners in bringing these criminals to justice .

We should have produced campaigns by now to identify and bring to justice the inevitable sanctions-busters.

Ratko Mladic, are brought to justice for alleged war crimes.

demand

Summoning the umpires he demanded justice .

Always there to denounce the system, demand justice .

Public protests demanding justice in the Gongadze case have mostly fizzled out, partly thanks to police harassment of demonstrators.

An outraged public demanded swift justice and retribution.

They demand a system of justice that is responsive to them.

When John demanded justice , the king refused to hear him.

dispense

We could dispense some justice and hang him from the bowsprit to save the courts the trouble.

Here rappers become vigilantes or revolutionaries: machines for dispensing rough justice or revenge.

A new international law made it a duty to dispense justice to victims, whatever reason of state might be invoked.

Who dispenses justice round here? 18.

do

No way at all that a few hundred words are going to do justice to this deeply affecting novel.

Rex who admitted to being the worst cook on board, was determined to do them justice .

I'd do you justice , Max.

Many are drunks-but that term does not do justice to the devastation they embody.

But Ifor can, and now will, do more to pursue justice as well as peace.

And the word affective scarcely did justice to the nature of those characteristics.

Nor do five pages do justice to the debate over the meaning of the Second Amendment.

Doctrinaire denial of a generational injustice does no justice either to the truth or to the victims.

escape

Some critics might favour the pragmatic solution of convicting both, to ensure that the guilty party does not escape justice .

pervert

They are also accused of conspiring to pervert the course of justice .

Archer denies perjury, perverting the course of justice and using a false instrument.

The friend, Ted Francis, denies perverting the course of justice .

It is claimed Metclafe inflicted grievous bodily harm to a man and then attempted to pervert the course of justice .

Six officers were originally charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and the seventh with unlawful wounding.

But tonight Crabb is starting a life sentence for murder and Taylor was given nine years for perverting the course of justice .

Another Leeds player, defender Michael Duberry, pleaded not guilty to conspiracy to pervert the course of justice .

rule

Furthermore, the implementation of some conceptions of the good is incompatible with the principles of justice and is ruled out altogether.

If the justices rule for Clinton, the lawsuit will be put on hold for four more years.

The justices did not rule that the law is constitutional.

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

Extending the ban to wedding rings, in the interests of safety, say the company, has upset some workers.

Ideally, the student should be making all the decisions and choosing actions in the interests of safety and efficiency.

If the alarm gets no response, the timer goes ahead and switches off in the interest of safety and economy.

The mature glider pilot would never hesitate to make a fool of himself in the interests of safety.

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

At present rules of a legislative nature are not generally subject to natural justice. 2.

But Aristotle did not conceive of natural laws based on mathematical principles.

If he perceives that there is a likelihood of bias, the rules of natural justice have been broken. 2.

It may have failed in the course of the inquiry to comply with the requirements of natural justice.

Lord Denning restricted the full application of the rules of natural justice on the ground of national security.

Some commentators take a different view, seeing a broader significance in the shift from natural justice to fairness.

The injunction is important in public law in the context of the rules of natural justice.

They have always presented a problem for the application of natural justice.

pervert the course of justice

Another Leeds player, defender Michael Duberry, pleaded not guilty to conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.

Archer denies perjury, perverting the course of justice and using a false instrument.

But tonight Crabb is starting a life sentence for murder and Taylor was given nine years for perverting the course of justice.

It is claimed Metclafe inflicted grievous bodily harm to a man and then attempted to pervert the course of justice.

Six officers were originally charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and the seventh with unlawful wounding.

The friend, Ted Francis, denies perverting the course of justice.

They are also accused of conspiring to pervert the course of justice.

rough justice

the rough justice of the Old West

But the appetite for rough justice which the gun-toting sheriff satisfied does not easily go away.

Exiled by Bolcarro to that judicial Siberia, Judge Lyttle applied his own rough justice.

For that he was put to death and there was, in one respect, a rough justice about it.

Here rappers become vigilantes or revolutionaries: machines for dispensing rough justice or revenge.

It seemed to her to be the nearest thing to rough justice that would ever present itself.

On the other hand this meted out only a very rough justice to owners.

Perhaps this was rough justice for my having ridden that one mile on the workmen's lorry on the sixth day.

So there was rough justice in the world.

the rules of natural justice

A corollary of this view was that the content of the rules of natural justice could be relatively fired and certain.

An obvious example would be if it reached a decision in flagrant breach of the rules of natural justice.

If he perceives that there is a likelihood of bias, the rules of natural justice have been broken. 2.

Lord Denning restricted the full application of the rules of natural justice on the ground of national security.

Similarly, a requirement that the expert observe the rules of natural justice could be made a contractual obligation.

The injunction is important in public law in the context of the rules of natural justice.

When do the rules of natural justice apply?

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Children have a strong sense of justice .

It's up to the courts to uphold justice - you can't take the law into your own hands.

It is clear that "liberty and justice for all" is still a goal rather than a reality in the U.S.

Many people no longer have confidence in the criminal justice system.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.