Justice of the Peace

Definition

justice / 'dʒʌstÇs / n ၁။ [U] (က) တရားမွ်တမႈ။ laws based on the principles of justice ❍ campaign for social justice. (ခ) အက်ဳိးသင့္ အေၾကာင္းသင့္။ He demanded, with some justice, that he should be given an opportunity to express his views. Compare INJUSTICE ၂။ [U] တရားဥပေဒ။ တရားစီရင္မႈ။ the European Court of Justice ❍ There has been a terrible miscarriage of justice (ie a wrong legal decision). ၃။ Justice [C] တရားလႊတ္ေတာ္တရားဝန္ႀကီး။ Mr Justice Davies. ၄။ [C] ( US ) တရား႐ံုးတရားသူႀကီး။ ❏ bring sb to justice [ IDM ] အျပစ္ရိွသူကို ဖမ္းဆီး႐ံုးတင္ သည္။ ❏ do oneself justice [ IDM ] လက္စြမ္းျပသည္။ He didn't do himself justice in the exams. ❏ do justice to sb/ sth; do sb/ sth justice [ IDM ] ၁။ …မွ်မွ်တတ စဥ္းစားေပးသည္။ … ထိုက္ထိုက္တန္တန္ အသား ေပးသည္။ He didn't play as well as he can, though to do him justice it was his first game since his injury. ❍ The photograph does not do full justice to the rich colours of the garden. ၂။ ထိုက္ထိုက္တန္တန္ အားေပးသည္။ လက္စြမ္းျပသည္။ Since we'd already eaten, we couldn't do justice to her cooking (ie could not eat all the food she had cooked). ❏ Justice of the Peace n ( abbr JP ) (အာဏာ ကန္႔သတ္မႈရိွေသာ) တရားသူႀကီး။

Examples

1. The struggle for freedom and justice
2. [social justice] : A society based on democracy
3. peace
4. and social justice
5. He appealed to their sense of justice.
6. Campaigners are convinced of the justice of their cause.
7. The criminal justice system
8. [a miscarriage of justice] : One of the worst miscarriages of justice ever seen
9. The family are determined to see justice done.
10. Criminals with political connections sometimes escape justice.
11. The trial judge
12. Mr Justice Mitchell
13. adjourned the proceedings.