0 present participle of quash
1 to say officially that something, especially an earlier official decision, is no longer to be accepted:
2 to forcefully stop something that you do not want to happen:
Early colonial attempts at understanding or quashing these prophetic movements seem in retrospect to have been somewhat haphazard.
The reason for that is that there is a difference between the withholding of confirmation and the process of quashing.
The information requested on the reasons for quashing individual appeals could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
I also welcome clause 82 on quashing liability orders.
We shall be putting down amendments about the criteria for quashing the conviction at a later stage.
But the quashing of the conviction must be founded on some new fact which shows conclusively that there has been a miscarriage of justice.
However, we have deleted the requirement that the conviction be unsatisfactory as a basis for quashing a conviction.
Nor was he concerned with awarding damages or quashing a warrant of any kind.
