quash a decision
Frequency: 5.02.1 per million words
to reject a legal decision, stating it is no longer valid
Examples (10)
- The high court has the power to quash the decision of a lower court.
- The Supreme Court quashed the previous decision, freeing the defendant.
- The controversial decision was eventually quashed on appeal.
- The legal team will seek to quash the council's planning decision.
- Quashing the original decision required new evidence to be presented.
- The judge quickly quashed the committee's biased decision.
- If new evidence emerges, the court may quash its earlier decision.
- Their main goal is to quash the decision that restricts their business operations.
- The judicial review resulted in an order to quash the minister's decision.
- The appellate court quashed several decisions made by that judge due to misconduct.