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A ruling by a British court that the Russian government ordered or abetted the murder of Litvinenko would have far-reaching consequences.
In Defense of ShariaThis week, an Islamic court at Funtua, in Katsina State, in northern Nigeria rejected the appeal of a woman convicted of having sex out of wedlock.
Her lawyers will likely appeal her conviction to a higher Sharia court, and if necessary, to Nigeria's Supreme Court, but if the judgment of the Funtua court stands, Amin Lawal will be stoned to death the moment her daughter is weaned.
As a Muslim lawyer who practices in a Sharia court in Kano, Nigeria's second-largest city, the demonization of Islamic law by Christians and human rights activists in Europe and North America angers me.
Recently, a Christian car buyer drew wide attention in Nigeria when he was duped by a Muslim car seller and took his case to a Sharia court.
Rather, the TV-obsessed US president is recreating something much older, and more in keeping with a Disney fantasy: his own princely court.
This explains why Trump is preoccupied with appearances and regal roleplaying, and why his administration has reprised classic courtly archetypes, down to the court fool.
Europe’s Baroque court culture was built around immensely entitled men who knew very little about the workings of government.
One contemporary observer’s description of Baroque court culture could be applied to the Kushner-Bannon relationship today: “The court is a place where no friend is ever close enough not to become an enemy later.”
Over centuries of practice, European courtiers learned much about what does and does not work in court life.
In other words, while Trump’s princely court poses a problem for America, as a metaphor, it could also provide a solution, by stoking Americans’ natural suspicion of monarchy.
Rather than describing Trump as the next Hitler, we should view him as an ersatz Bourbon, presiding over Mar-a-Lago as his exemplars presided over that much-hated French court.
Sooner or later, someone will take EU countries to court over this.
In the 15 years and 200 sittings of the court it took to get to a conviction, Singh’s devotees made numerous efforts to pressure investigators, police, judges, and the complainants to withdraw the case.
Human rights advocates began court action to demand his return.
He challenged the prosecution vigorously, defending himself with a feistiness that surprised nearly all who read the transcripts released by the court in real time on the trial’s first day.
He even retracted his confession to the CCP’s anti-graft agency, blaming mental stress for his admission that he accepted bribes from a man he called “soulless” in court.
But Bo apparently is not accepting his political demise as a final act – in his closing statement, he told the court that he wanted to keep his Party membership (he was expelled anyway) – and a comeback calculus may well have motivated his spirited performance.
Larger firms – even those with large debt problems – can refinance their excessive liabilities in court or out of court; but an unprecedented number of small businesses are going bankrupt.
Following media speculation that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission would question him further, and possibly detain him for an extended period, he obtained a court order restraining the government from breaching his right to freedom of movement, because he had not yet been charged with any crime.
In the few cases where a court rules in favor of the plaintiffs, the judgments often remain un-enforced.
Similarly, while Britain has many outstanding musicians, the favorite of the royal court is Elton John.
This is particularly noteworthy, given that none of the great treaties to create an international criminal court and a permanent war-crimes tribunal was signed by the US during George W. Bush’s presidency.
Valle had asked the court to halt his execution, on the grounds that to spend so long on death row is “cruel and unusual punishment” and therefore prohibited by the US constitution.
On September 28, the court rejected Valle’s application, and he was executed that evening.
A Star is JailedBANGKOK – Joseph Estrada, the disgraced former president of the Philippines, faces the prospect of spending his remaining years in prison after a special court in Manila found him guilty of amassing around US$15 million in bribes and kickbacks.
Another study based on in-depth interviews of Ecuadorian entrepreneurs suggested that investment would rise by 10% if the judiciary were on a par with the most effective court systems.
Researchers found that in Mexico, eight in ten court cases were abandoned.
This figure suggests that going to court can be a thankless exercise, and that many disputes probably never reach court.
So the ball is in the Yellow Vests’ court.
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