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prohibiting order

noun

C1CEFR level
85/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

A remedy in judicial review restraining a public body from acting or continuing to act unlawfully.

The court made a prohibiting order preventing the panel from proceeding with the flawed hearing.

Similar: prohibition

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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