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JUDICIAL DISCRETION [2 records]

Record 1 2014-02-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Courts
  • Decisions (Practice and Procedural Law)
  • Citizenship and Immigration
DEF

The power the law gives the Court or a judge to choose among two or more alternatives, each being lawful.

CONT

[A] legal condition in which the judge has the freedom to choose among a number of options ... Where judicial discretion exists, it is as though the law were saying: I have determined the contents of the legal norm up to this point. From here on, it is for you, the judge, to determine the contents of the legal norm for I, the legal system, am not able to tell you which solution to choose.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tribunaux
  • Décisions (Droit judiciaire)
  • Citoyenneté et immigration
DEF

Pouvoir discrétionnaire donnant l'autorité à un juge de décider ou de rendre son jugement sur une affaire qui lui a été soumise par les parties en suivant les normes et les principes du système judiciaire.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Tribunales
  • Decisiones (Derecho procesal)
  • Ciudadanía e inmigración
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Record 2 2013-09-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Evidence
DEF

Power residing in the Court, of deciding a question where latitude of judgment is allowed. (Curzon, p. 103)

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit de la preuve
OBS

pouvoir judiciaire discrétionnaire : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l’administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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