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No low-level Moscow court judge or prosecutor could possibly have summoned Sechin unilaterally.
Such a court would be empowered to prosecute any act of terrorism perpetrated after its creation, offering desperately needed assistance to countries with weak legal systems and providing a strong deterrent to would-be terrorists.
To be sure, the creation of such a court would face difficulties, the most important of which remains the lack of consensus on what constitutes the crime of terrorism.
SCAF, fearing an Islamist takeover ahead of the presidential election, dissolved the parliament in June, following a judicial decision that they (and the court) insist must be upheld.
While the US Trade Representative (USTR), which compiled the Section 301 report, claims to have conducted many surveys, all respondents are anonymous, and their assertions are little more than hearsay – nothing that would be admissible in a court of law.
They wanted the Prince of Wales, the principal British representative at the ceremony, to pay court to China’s president (though they did not demand that he bow before handing over the keys to the city).
Policy recommendations that miss such warnings court over-confidence and error.
In February 2016, the CJGEA went to court against six state agencies and two corporate entities.
A similar court should do the same for crimes against the environment and its defenders.
Various court rulings have determined that this process allowed richer districts to spend more than poorer ones and ordered states to equalize spending.
Opponents of the AU’s decision argue that there is no similar regional human-rights court elsewhere, and that the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court does not account for the possibility of complementary regional systems.
It is important to note that the extension of jurisdiction to the new court did not emerge from the desire to block the ICC in Africa.
The only hope for offsetting this fundamental shortcoming is that the court exercises sound judgment in individual cases.
A leader who can win an election, for example, is unlikely to be exposed to prosecution in any court, whether in The Hague or in Arusha, Tanzania.
Bosnian Muslim victims have waited decades for an international court to rule that the ethnic cleansing they suffered – especially in 1992, the worst year of the conflict – was genocide.
Meanwhile, global financial institutions, seeking entry into a hot market, court local banks.
By surrounding himself with a court of bright young technocrats, Macron lost contact with what he calls “his people” (a rather tone-deaf formulation in itself).
The fact that in the weeks before the elections the candidates court undecided voters by trying to appear as centrist as possible should surprise no one.
Has he already lost touch with reality, surrounded as he is by a court of media courtesans?
The influence of his court has been seen as excessive and dangerous, marginalizing and frustrating the government, parliament, and his own party.
Finally, one major deficiency of the current international financial architecture is the lack of an institutional framework – i.e., a court similar to those created to manage bankruptcies in national economies – to manage debt overhangs at the international level.
Bretton Woods II should resolve this problem by creating an international debt court.
A global system for prudential regulation and supervision; a revamped IMF managing a global reserve currency, coordinating global macroeconomic policy, and providing agile credit lines; and an international debt court – all of these must be on the agenda.
But the charges against Khodorkovsky are as flimsy as they are tendentious: the privatization case had been amicably settled previously, and Khodorkovsky has merely used tax avoidance schemes that are commonplace in Russia--and that have been upheld in court.
For example, although prosecutors control the relevant courts, they did not bother to secure the necessary court orders for the Yukos raids and arrests.
After Iran or Saudi Arabia, Malaysia’s Sharia court system is probably the most extensive in the Muslim world, and the accompanying bureaucracy is not only big but has more bite than the national parliament.
Just a week earlier, a young mother by the name of Kartika was sentenced by Malaysia’s Sharia court to six lashes by cane and fined $1500 after she was caught drinking beer at a hotel.
When Nelson sued, the court issued a heinous ruling – upheld by the Iowa Supreme Court – affirming his right to dismiss her for this reason.
This left only less market-friendly alternatives – especially after court cases upheld the validity of the 1970 Clean Air Act.
At the end of April – just a day after the UN Security Council endorsed Guterres’s call to relaunch the negotiation process – the Polisario Front launched a legal challenge in a civil court in South Africa, seeking to seize a shipment of phosphate mined in the territory.
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