English-Finnish translations for judicial review

• laillisuusvalvonta

Definition of judicial review

• The doctrine, implemented in varying ways in differing jurisdictions, that authorities within the judicial branch of government may examine and make rulings on the legal validity of decisions and actions of the legislative and executive branches of government and, in some jurisdictions, of others within the judicial branch itself
• A judicial process undertaken under this doctrine

Related words

• judicial
• extrajudicial
• prejudicial
• judicially
• nonjudicial
• judicialization
• judicialize
• dejudicialize
• extrajudicially
• judicial separation