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Home Dictionary Name: judicial reviewJudicial review
Judicial review, is not only concerned with the merits of the decision but also of the decision-making process. It intends to protect the individual against the misuse or abuse of the power by a wide range of authorities. Judicial review is a protection to the individual and not at weapon, Kartar Singh v. State of Punjab, (1994) 3 SCC 569 (738).Means to look again main object of granting a review of judgment in reconsideration of the same matter by the same judge under certain conditions (CPC, 1908, s. 114)Judicial Review, is the power of the court to review statutes or administrative acts and determine their constitutionality. The examination of Federal and State Legislative Statutes and the acts of executive officials by the courts to determine their validity according to written Constitution, Dictionary of Political Science, Joseph Dunner, 1965, p. 285.In England the judiciary has no power to review the laws made by Parliament, Limited Government and Judicial Review, D.D. Basu, p. 2...
judicial review
judicial review 1 : review 2 : a constitutional doctrine that gives to a court system the power to annul legislative or executive acts which the judges declare to be unconstitutional ;also : the process of using this power see also checks and balances Marbury v. Madison in the Important Cases section ...
Claim for judicial review
Claim for judicial review, means a claim to review the lawfulness of (1) an enactment; or (2) a decision, action or failure to act in relation to the exercise of a public function Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 4) Rules, 2000, 54.1 (2) UK, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 1(1), para 159, p. 302....
review
review : a judicial reexamination and reconsideration of the legality or constitutionality of something (as the proceedings of a lower tribunal or a legislative enactment or governmental action) see also judicial review vt : to reexamine judicially re·view·abil·i·ty [-vyü-ə-bi-lə-tē] n re·view·able [ri-vyü-ə-bəl] adj ...
direct review
direct review : judicial review of a case obtained through ordinary appellate procedure rather than through a collateral attack ...
quasi-judicial
quasi-judicial : of, relating to, or being an administrative act, body, or procedure that is concerned with the adjudication of specific rights and obligations rather than the promulgation of rules, that requires discretion and decision, and that may be subject to notice and hearing requirements and judicial review ...
Appeal and memorandum of appeal
Appeal and memorandum of appeal, the word 'appeal' is defined as the judicial examination of the decision by a higher court of the decision of an inferior court. The appeal is the judicial examination; the memorandum of appeal contains the grounds on which the judicial examination is invited, Lakshmiratan Engineering Works v. Assistant Commissioner, AIR 1968 SC 488 (492). (Civil Procedure Code, 1908, O. 41)...
Jurisdiction
Jurisdiction, is a verbal coat of many colours. Jurisdiction originally seems to have had the meaning which Lord Reid ascribed to it in Anisminic Ltd. v. Foreign Compensation Commission, (1969) 2 AC 147, namely, the entitlement 'to enter upon the enquiry in question, M.L. Sethi v. R.P. Kapur, (1972) 2 SCC 427: (1973) 1 SCR 697.Jurisdiction, legal authority; extent of power; declaration of the law. Jurisdiction may be limited either locally, as that of a County Court, or personally, as where a Court has a quorum, or as to amount, or as to the character of the questions to be determined.By 'jurisdiction' is meant the extent of the power which is conferred upon the court by its constitu-tion to try a proceedings, Raja Soap Factory v. S.P. Shantharaj, AIR 1965 SC 1449 (1451): (1965) 2 SCR 800.The word 'jurisdiction' is a verbal coat of many colours. Jurisdiction originally means the entitle-ment 'to enter upon the enquiry in question'. If there was an entitlement to enter upon an enquiry, ...
Lords of Appeal in Ordinary
Lords of Appeal in Ordinary, originally two persons having held high judicial office, or practised at the bar for not less than fifteen years, appointed, with a salary of 6,000l. a year, to aid the House of Lords and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in the hearing of appeals (App. Jur. Act, 1876, s. 6). On the death or resignation of any two members of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council the Crown was empowered to appoint a third and fourth Lord of Appeal in Ordinary (ibid., s. 14), and may now appoint two more in addition to the four (App. Jur. Act, 1913, s. 1), and a further one in addition to the six (App. Jur. Act, 1929, s. 2). Any Lord of Appeal in Ordinary who at the date of his appointment would have been qualified to the appointed an ordinary judge of the Court of Appeal, or at that date was a judge of that Court, is an ex-officio judge of the Court of Appeal (Jud. Act, 1925, s. 6 (2)). Lords of Appeal in Ordinary rank as barons for life and sit and vote in t...
Appeal
Appeal [fr. appellatio, Lat.; appeller, Fr.]. the judicial examination of the decision by a higher Court of the decision of an inferior Court. Thus there is an appeal from the High Court to the Court of Appeal (see (English) Judicature Act, 1925, s. 27), from the Court of Appeal to the House of Lords (see s. 3 of the (English) Appellate Jurisdiction Act, 1876, c. 59), from the Petty Sessions to Quarter Sessions, where the appeal is by way of retrial (see s. 19 of the (English) Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1879, also Summary Jurisdiction (Appeals) Act, 1933, and SESSIONS OF THE PEACE), from the County Courts to the Court of Appeal (see s. 105 of the County Courts Act, 1934, and next title), and in criminal matters, to the Court of Criminal Appeal under the (English) Criminal Appeal Act, 1907, or under the (English) Crown Cases Act, 1848 (11 & 12 Vict. c. 78). Appeals to the House of Lords in forma pauperis are checked by the (English) Appeal (Forma Pauperis) Act, 1893 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 22)...
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