Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Justiciability

n. The quality or state of being appropriate or suitable for review by a court. See MOOTNESS DOCTRINE; RIPENESS. Cf. STANDING. "Concepts of justiciability have been developed to identify appropriate occasions for judicial action .... The central concepts often are elaborated into more specific categories of justiciability - advisory opinions, feigned and collusive cases, standing, ripeness, mootness, political questions, and administrative questions." 13 Charles Alan Wright et al., Federal Practice and Procedure § 3529, at 278-79 (2d ed. 1984).