miscarriage of justice

Idioms  

1. An unfair decision, especially one in a court of law. For example, Many felt that his being expelled from the school was a miscarriage of justice. This expression, which uses miscarriage in the sense of “making a blunder,” was first recorded in 1875.

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Example Sentences

European chief executive Paul Patterson said Fujitsu had been given £500m of contract extensions despite its faulty software being at the centre of the huge miscarriage of justice.

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It has been described as the biggest miscarriage of justice in British legal history and has led to a long-running public inquiry into the scandal.

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Now a private investigator, he is contacted daily by people who believe there has been a miscarriage of justice.

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"Having seen our evidence, it will have no other choice but to find they were wrongly convicted and it's a miscarriage of justice," he says.

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The scandal has been called the UK's most widespread miscarriage of justice.

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