The writ of certiorari allows administrative decisions to be reviewed by the common law courts for compliance with law, competency of the court, and interpretation of the administrative law.
A request for Certiorari for removal of convictions, judgments, orders made by Justices of the Peace must be made within six months and after notice to the Justice of the Peace who may argue cause against granting certiorari.
The central courts also heard appeals by writ of certiorari as to whether an administrative act was in accordance with existing law, whether the court is competent, and whether the administrative law has been rightly interpreted.
The writ of certiorari allowed administrative decisions to be reviewed by the common law courts for compliance with law, competency of the court, and interpretation of the administrative law.
But we need not go further into the rather technical question of the scope of certiorari in this kind of case.
Commission has reported it is functus officio and beyond the reach of certiorari or prohibition.
Under that Act a decision cannot be set aside unless it was made in exercise of a statutory power and either it could have been quashed in certiorari proceedings at common law--that is the effect of s.
August 1981), a declaration may be granted in the discretion of the Court whether or not certiorari would have lain.
In In re Yamashita[129] the majority denied a petition for certiorari and petitions for writs of habeas corpus to review the conviction of a Japanese war criminal by a military commission sitting in the Philippine Islands.
The Supreme Court at Washington granted certiorari and reversed this holding.
Certiorari is a writ from a superior court in a certain case, ordering the removal of the case from an inferior court, so that more speedy justice may be obtained or that errors may be corrected.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "certiorari" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: appeal; citation; monition; subpoena; summons; venire
