0 the part of a country's government that is responsible for its legal system, including all the judges in the country's courts: --
a member of the judiciary
1 the part of a country’s government that is responsible for its legal system and that consists of all the judges in its courts of law --
2 the part of a country's government that is responsible for its legal system and which consists of all the judges in the country's courts of law: --
The 45-seat governmental council ensures individual freedoms and an independent judiciary.
Public confidence in the rule of law and the judiciary has been damaged by recent events.
We need a judiciary that protects the rights of all our citizens.
With the exception of some posts in the judiciary, public office in the nineteenth century did not provide the occupants with notable fortunes.
While independence is a good thing, absolute autonomy of the judiciary runs counter to the principles of democracy.
Moreover, the three-party balance fostered coalition government, making it especially difficult for presidents to pass legislation that would strip the judiciary of its autonomy.
The presence of a strong opposition in both houses facilitated progress toward an autonomous judiciary and helped drain power away from the president.
These intellectual ancestors came to dominate the professions, finance, education, the foundations, and later the federal bureaucracy and judiciary.
To change statutory interpretations, the judiciary depends on cases coming before it.
What is certain is that in cases where judiciary is true to the dictates of its law, the extra-judicial sphere gets activated.
The constitutional reform of 1994 marks a break with the past, and potentially represents a qualitative change in terms of judiciary-executive relations.
