- pervert the course of justice
- legal
to try to influence the result of a court case, especially by preventing the true facts about a crime from being known
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pervert the course of justice
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pervert the course of justice — legal phrase to try to influence the result of a court case, especially by preventing the true facts about a crime from being known Thesaurus: appearing in courthyponym Main entry: pervert * * * pervert the course of justice see ↑ … Useful english dictionary
pervert the course of justice — If a person perverts the course of justice, they tell a lie or prevent the police from finding out the truth about something. The suspect was accused of trying to pervert the course of justice … English Idioms & idiomatic expressions
Perverting the course of justice — Perverting the course of justice, in English, Canadian (see article 139 of Canadian Criminal Code), and Irish law, is a criminal offence in which someone prevents justice from being served on himself or on another party. It is a common law… … Wikipedia
pervert justice — (or pervert the course of justice) Brit : to try to stop the police from learning the facts about a criminal case She was convicted of perverting justice [=(US) obstructing justice] for lying to the police. • • • Main Entry: ↑pervert … Useful english dictionary
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justice — noun 1 fairness ADJECTIVE ▪ distributive, economic, environmental, natural, racial (esp. AmE), social ▪ rough ▪ He saw it as rough … Collocations dictionary
pervert — perverts, perverting, perverted (The verb is pronounced [[t]pə(r)vɜ͟ː(r)t[/t]]. The noun is pronounced [[t]pɜ͟ː(r)vɜː(r)t[/t]].) 1) VERB If you pervert something such as a process or society, you interfere with it so that it is not as good as it… … English dictionary
pervert — I UK [pə(r)ˈvɜː(r)t] / US [pərˈvɜrt] verb [transitive] Word forms pervert : present tense I/you/we/they pervert he/she/it perverts present participle perverting past tense perverted past participle perverted 1) to affect something good or right… … English dictionary
pervert — per|vert1 [ pər vɜrt ] verb transitive 1. ) to affect something good or right in a negative way so that it becomes bad or wrong: an attempt to pervert the meaning of an innocent story 2. ) to influence someone to behave sexually in a way that is… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
pervert — per|vert1 [pəˈvə:t US pərˈvə:rt] v [T] [Date: 1300 1400; : Old French; Origin: pervertir, from Latin pervertere, from vertere to turn ] 1.) to change something in an unnatural and often harmful way ▪ Genetic scientists are often accused of… … Dictionary of contemporary English
