noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', transitive verb
taking into consideration; making allowances
Formal term used especially in legal or official contexts when a decision-maker considers mitigating circumstances or exercises discretion. Often appears as 酌量する or in the compound 情状酌量.
裁判官は被告の家庭環境を酌量して、執行猶予を言い渡した。
The judge took the defendant's family circumstances into consideration and handed down a suspended sentence.
情状酌量の余地があると弁護側は主張した。
The defense argued that there were grounds for leniency.