Synonyms of tribunals

tribunals

noun

plural of tribunal

as in courts

an assembly of persons for the administration of justice

was tried before a military tribunal and found not guilty of the charges

Synonyms & Similar Words

• courts
• judiciaries
• benches
• courts of law
• forums
• judicatories
• bars
• criminal courts
• courts-martial
• judicatures
• high courts
• supreme courts
• inquisitions
• kangaroo courts
• drumhead court-martials

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of tribunals

Based upon their replies, occupying Allied officials ranked their culpability, then tried the worst offenders — most famously in the Nuremberg trials, but also in numerous local tribunals. — Fern Schumer Chapman, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2026

Lawmakers are prohibited by the state Constitution from being paid representatives for individuals or entities before state agencies other than judicial tribunals. — Jim Turner, Miami Herald, 24 July 2026

In 1996, the United Nations selected her as chief prosecutor of the international criminal tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. — Rob Gillies, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2026

Located just 2 miles away from the former insurance building that housed the residual mechanism, the ICC was set up as a permanent, global court to prosecute humanity’s worst crimes and forestall the need to create ad hoc tribunals for every conflict. — ABC News, 20 May 2026

But through a series of deft legal maneuvers—joined to the ever more ambitious self-concepts of some international legal tribunals—Mauritius was able to win a second legal victory at another international tribunal, for the law of the sea. — David Frum, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2026

The position will also represent the department in front of administrative tribunals such as the State Personnel Board and the California Department of Human Resources as well as assist the attorney general’s office on civil litigation matters. — Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado updated February 24, Sacbee.com, 24 Feb. 2026

The Nuremberg trials also helped to establish precedents used in later international criminal tribunals, including those in the wake of the Bosnian war and Rwandan genocide, and influenced the formation of the International Criminal Court, which began operating in 2002 in The Hague. — B.b. Blaber, The Conversation, 8 Dec. 2025

That panel included two former judges who had overseen international criminal tribunals, a former legal adviser to the British Foreign Office, and Amal Clooney, a British Lebanese human-rights lawyer and the wife of George Clooney. — David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025