tribunal
84
7.4
- noun
- /traɪˈbjuːnəl/
- Formal
:
tribunal
- To date, however, almost four years after its establishment, the Rwandan tribunal has produced no criminal convictions.
- jurisdiction of the tribunal
- an international tribunal
- a military tribunal
But the tribunal brought a result.
- But the tribunal brought a result.
- And when the tribunal ruled that shaded area is gone.
- Do people truly want public military tribunals?
- And my last point I want to touch on is indeed the issue of appeal tribunals.
- Some sort of permanent international legal tribunal.
- He had to bring these people up on on charges as heretics before an ecclesiastical tribunal.
- Truth commissions being one, war crimes tribunals, memorials, monuments, reparations programs of various kinds.
- In her autobiography, Angela Davis writes quote I never forget the self-righteous condemnation of that tribunal.
- But the thing that they, the whole tribunal got hung up on was whether I misgendered somebody and misgendering.
- The Hong Kong regulators held a market misconduct tribunal and found Citroen Research, not China, Evergrande, culpable of market misconduct.
- There's a judge or a tribunal, and your lawyer's job is to give the judge the rationalization for why they should vote for you, right?
- We raised some money, we took his case to the employment tribunal and we successfully got a judgement of unfair dismissal.
- And the China Tribunal concluded that forced organ harvesting has been committed for years throughout China on a significant scale.
- They've basically been run out of money to conduct them or the tribunals have said they it's out of time.
- And you know, because I think at the time, you know, the tribunals were a little bit more fairer then.
- I can almost guarantee you that these are people are rising up and you will be cried for a military tribunal.
- And the the, the original tribunal, you might know the story said that that opinion has no place in a democratic society.
Examples
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Stephen and the others stood there, alone in the echoing tribunal chamber, absorbing their new status in life.
Fiction book (1998) -
In the charge of premeditated murder, this tribunal finds Joseph Dredd guilty as charged.
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Therefore, you are to be returned to England to face a tribunal.
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We demand that he be brought before this tribunal and stand his trial like any other man accused of crime.
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"But why?" she continued, turning and raising her voice to address the tribunal at large.
Fiction book (1998) -
The decision of the Tribunal is being appealed to the Federal Court of Appeal.
Academic text (1991) -
Based on this evidence, the United Nations established a war crimes tribunal for Rwanda in late 1994.
Academic text (1999) -
We raised some money, we took his case to the employment tribunal and we successfully got a judgement of unfair dismissal.
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To accomplish this, an international tribunal for the adjudication of captured pirates must be established.
Academic text (2011) -
The citizens are waiting eagerly for the tribunal to announce its final verdict on the case.
Synonyms
∞
1.4
A place where a judge hears and decides legal cases
423
3.7
A group of people chosen to judge or discuss something
196
4.2
A group of people who meet to make official decisions
76
3.2
A place where a judge hears and decides cases about the law
52
4.4
A court that reviews and decides on cases from lower courts
21
7.4
A court that reviews and can change decisions of lower courts
2
3.1
A place where a judge hears cases and gives decisions
2
3.8
A place where judges decide legal cases and apply the law
A court in ancient Greece where citizens judge legal cases
A group of courts that make legal decisions
A judge or court with power to hear and decide criminal cases
How Authoritative
- US
656
3.1
- UK
46
4.5
- Formal
∞
1.4
- Formal
84
7.4
423
3.7
Surface Forms
Etymology
Tribunal comes from the Latin word tribune, which is related to tribe meaning 'a group of people', because leaders used to sit on a raised seat to decide arguments. So a tribunal is a place or group that makes official judgments.