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kangaroo court
A kangaroo court is a judicial tribunal or assembly that blatantly disregards recognized standards of law or justice, and often carries little or no official standing in the territory within which it resides. Merriam-Webster defines it as a "mock court in which the principles of law and justice are disregarded or perverted".〔(【引用サイトリンク】 kangaroo court )〕 The term may also apply to a court held by a legitimate judicial authority who intentionally disregards the court's legal or ethical obligations.
A kangaroo court is often held to give the appearance of a fair and just trial, even though the verdict has in reality already been decided before the trial has begun.
==Etymology==
Although the term ''kangaroo court'' has been erroneously explained to have its origin from Australia's courts while it was a penal colony,〔 the first published instance is from an American source in the year 1850. Some sources suggest that it may have been popularized during the California Gold Rush of 1849, along with ''mustang court'',〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Kangaroo Court )〕 as a description of the hastily carried-out proceedings used to deal with the issue of claim jumping miners. Ostensibly the term comes from the notion of justice proceeding "by leaps", like a kangaroo.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Minor League Baseball In this court most anything goes )〕 Another possibility is that the phrase could refer to the pouch of a kangaroo, meaning the court is in someone's pocket. The phrase is popular in the UK, US, Australia and New Zealand and is still in common use.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Kangaroo Court )〕
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