perverting justice
Sabotaging legal process
Perverting justice is deliberately obstructing or corrupting the legal process—destroying evidence, intimidating witnesses, lying under oath, or otherwise undermining fair proceedings.
The phrase appears most often in British legal contexts as "perverting the course of justice," a serious criminal offense: She was charged with perverting justice after coaching witnesses to lie.
- obstructionSomething blocking the way
- witness tamperingIllegally influencing trial observers
- corruptionDishonest abuse of power
- briberyCorrupt payment for influence
- paid offYielded a positive result
tampering · perjury · false testimony · coverup · cover up · hush money · misconduct · crooked · rigged · witness · intimidation · falsifying · evidence · smoking gun · courtroom · prosecutor · judge · kangaroo court
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Guaranteed judicial fairness
fair trial · judicial integrity · bearing witness · transparency · legal compliance
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Moral soundness and consistency
honesty · truthfulness · moral rectitude · acting in good faith · telling the truth
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