tribunal
n[CGp]
group of officials with the authority to settle certain types of dispute (被授权解决某种纠纷的)审理团; 特别法庭
a rent tribunal, ie one hearing appeals against high rents 租务裁判处(受理对高租金提起的申诉)
(fig 比喻) the tribunal of public opinion 舆论的公断.
There are even stories of half-trained elephant calves who have refused to feed and pined to death when by some unavoidable circumstance they have been deprived of their own trainer.