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And each was or will be conducted in court systems that vary greatly in terms of their development and independence.
Here, it seems clear that UNMO’s political interests have been allowed to dictate that the country’s key opposition leader should be tried on charges that no real democracy that embraces the rule of law would even consider leveling, and convicted on evidence that no truly independent court would accept.
The ball is now firmly in politicians’ court.
Socialism had its day in court, and was found wanting.
Earlier this year, a lower court ruled that the case could go to trial, and the trial was set to begin at the US District Court in Oregon, on October 29.
Scott, therefore, had no standing to sue in federal court.
On December 19, Sonia Gandhi, President of the Congress party, and her son, Rahul Gandhi, the party’s vice president, were forced to appear in court on corruption charges.
No court should convict someone lightly because of the views he espouses in the public sphere.
The court ruled that, ultimately, freedom to express one's thoughts, however generously conceived in a democracy, must be balanced against other values, such as reputation, honor, privacy, dignity, and equality.
During the recent court fights over AIDS drugs in South Africa, patents received a black eye.
PHNOM PENH -- The appearance of the first former Khmer Rouge leader in a special hybrid court established in Cambodia to bring that movement’s surviving leaders to justice provoked a question on which the tribunal’s integrity will depend: should an accused mass murderer be released from prison pending his trial?
The court – with its improbable blend of Cambodian and foreign judges and attorneys as well as laws – is meant to be a model for judicial reform and independent justice in a country where impunity has long been the rule.
The five red-robed judges who preside over the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (the tribunal’s official name) are the final arbiters of Duch’s detention, but the question they are now considering belongs as much to the people of Cambodia as it does to the court.
What does it say to the country and the world if a court convened to mete out justice flouts the law?
A legal challenge to the law is currently before the high court in Delhi.
The issue went to Turkey’s highest court, which annulled the parliamentary vote, effectively blocking Gul’s candidacy, resulting in Erdogan’s decision to call an early election.
While the high court decision and the appeal to the electorate means that Turkish democracy has dodged a bullet for now, the progress of Turkey’s EU accession negotiations has been further slowed.
Support from UNMIL and other international partners enabled the Liberian government to establish several specialized criminal justice agencies, including the Women and Children Protection Section of the Liberian National Police (LNP) and a court dedicated to prosecuting sex crimes.
In particular, donors should focus on building the capacity of police officers and court officials, while supporting the government’s efforts to provide the infrastructure and equipment needed to enforce the law.
Now that he has weakened Hungary’s constitutional court and free press, he wants to undermine critical thinking itself.
In that case, the question went far beyond a declaration of independence; the court was asked whether and under what conditions Quebec had a right to break away from Canada, under either the Canadian constitution or international law.
On this view, if investors were able to take raters to court, raters’ incentives would improve.
Golubchuk’s doctors thought it best not to prolong his life, but his children, arguing that discontinuing life-support would violate their Orthodox Jewish beliefs, obtained a court order compelling the doctors to keep their father alive.
If Golubchuk’s children can convince the court that their father is not suffering, the court might reasonably order the hospital to grant them custody of their father.
What the court should not do is order the hospital to continue to care for Golubchuk against the better judgment of its health care professionals.
For the lickspittles of Trump’s court, dutifully confirming the president’s delusions is de rigueur.
In response, the government removed the redistricting issue from parliament to the constitutional court – an attempt, reformers argued, to hold back change.
ANDE proposed creation of a new court by amending the constitution.
The new court is empowered to reconcile or revoke laws that contain conflicts and duplications.
But, just as those regions have been improving their public and corporate governance – Hong Kong just witnessed a breakthrough court decision against a telecom tycoon who is the son of the province’s richest and most powerful man – crony capitalism is taking root in the United States, a country that the world long considered the gold standard of a level playing field in business.
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