Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
conscience of the court
1. The court's equitable power to decide issues based on notions of fairness and justice. 2. A standard applied by the court in deciding whether the parties or a jury has acted within limits. 0 Thus, in some cases, a jury's award of damages is upset because it is said to "shock the conscience of the court."