experienced | learned | senior | presiding, trial | deputy | appeal (court), appellate, circuit, county court, district, federal, High Court, Supreme Court

be, sit as
By next year you could be sitting as a High Court judge.

appoint (sb as)

preside, sit
Which judge will be sitting next week?

call sb
The judge called the remaining witness for the Crown.

direct sb
The judge must direct the jury on points of law.

consider sth | accept sth, admit sth
The judge admitted the notes of the interview as evidence.

dismiss sth, refuse sth, reject sth
The trial judge dismissed her compensation claim.

conclude sth, decide sth, find sth, hold sth, rule sth, uphold sth
The judge held that the company had been negligent.

sum up
The judge summed up and the jury retired to consider its verdict.

sentence sb | order sth
The judge ordered the company to pay compensation to the claimant.

award (sb) sth, grant (sb) sth
The judge awarded him damages of £20,000.

competition | independent

panel
a panel of independent judges

choose sb/sth, decide sth

the judges'' decision
The judges'' decision on the entries is final.

astute, good, great, shrewd
You are the best judge of what your body needs. | a shrewd judge of character

poor | impartial

~ of
He is a good judge of footballing talent.

correctly, rightly | wrongly
I think I judged the distance wrongly.

fairly, properly | harshly
I think you''re judging her rather harshly.

objectively | beautifully, carefully, finely, nicely, perfectly, well
Their performance of the concerto was beautifully judged and finely controlled. | ‘There''s something I haven''t told you.’ She judged her words carefully. | The bowler judged it well, timing the ball to perfection.

accordingly
Those who preach intolerance should be judged accordingly.

be difficult to, be hard to, be impossible to | be able to, be in a position to
I am in no position to judge whether what she is doing is right or wrong.

learn to
learning to judge distances

according to
He believed that schools should be judged according to strictly academic criteria.

against
judging his own performance against the performance of others

by
You will be judged by the work you have produced over the year.

from
The age of the furniture can be judged from the type of wood used.

on
Your slogan will be judged on its originality and style.

criteria for judging
People use different criteria for judging success at school.

don''t judge a book by its cover
(figurative) (= don''t judge sth by how it looks),

judge by appearances, judging by/from sth
He seems to have been a popular person, judging by the number of people at his funeral.

to judge by/from
To judge from what she said, she was very disappointed.

judge for youself
Readers are left to judge for themselves whether McCrombie is hero or villain.

judge sth on its merits
Each painting must be judged on its own merits.