Judicial Branch

Definition: Judicial Branch

Judicial Branch

Noun

1. The branch of the United States government responsible for the administration of justice.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Judicial Branch

Crosswords: Judicial Branch

Books

• 1999/Summer Library Judicial Staff Directory: The Judicial Branch of the U.S. Government: Federal & State Courts, Judges, Staffs, Biographies) (reference)

• EEO in the judicial branch : an outline of policy and law (reference)

• History Speaks : Judicial Branch of the Government (reference)

• Order in the Court: A Look at the Judicial Branch (How Government Works) (reference)

• Politics of the High Court: Study of the Judicial Branch of Government in Australia (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Almost Painless Guide to U.S. Civics: The Judicial Branch (reference)

• Understanding Government - The Judicial Branch (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Business

Seminars and lectures on copyrights, software, Internet, piracy, etc. Sponsored by CESSI are regularly scheduled for the members of the Judicial Branch. (references)

Children

Peru

For example, the statute governing the policies and procedures of the judicial branch specifically prohibits the blind from serving as judges or prosecutors, a provision that the National Judiciary Council has interpreted to apply to all persons with disabilities. (references)

Economic History

Vietnam

There is a separate judicial branch, but it is relatively weak. (references)

Japan

The executive branch is responsible to the Diet, and the judicial branch is independent. (references)

Human Rights

Peru

In 2000 President Paniagua began to reform the judicial branch. (references)

Panama

The pay issue has caused several district court judges to leave the judicial branch. (references)

Peru

It returned others to lower courts where they belonged, in keeping with the Organic Law of Judicial Branch. (references)

Political Economy

Nigeria

In theory, an independent federal judiciary exists, but in reality the judicial branch has been greatly weakened by neglect and endemic corruption. (references)

Russia

The Constitution provides for an independent judiciary but in practice the judicial branch has historically been weak and its independence has been limited. (references)

Bulgaria

The Special Investigative Service (SIS), which provides investigative support to prosecutors on serious criminal cases, is a judicial branch agency and therefore is not under direct executive branch control. (references)

Political Rights

Kyrgyz Republic

The OSCE noted that executive and judicial branch interference in the electoral process continued through the runoffs. (references)

Colombia

Afro-Colombian organizations say that Afro-Colombians have almost no representation in the executive branch, judicial branch, and civil service positions, and in military hierarchies. (references)

Women

Mozambique

In some places, it appears to provide women less protection than family law, and unless a marriage is registered, a woman has no recourse to the judicial branch for enforcement of the rights provided her by the civil codes. (references)

Worker Rights

Costa Rica

Delays in processing court rulings are common throughout the judicial branch. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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