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amenable to judicial review

phrase

C2CEFR level
75/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister

Describing a body or decision that is susceptible to challenge in judicial review proceedings.

The question was whether a private company exercising public functions was amenable to judicial review.

Topic: Constitutional & public in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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