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The ball is in the political class’s court.
Musharraf, again acting impulsively, placed the country under emergency rule when Chaudhry was brought back by a decision of his own court.
Terms in office have expired for the prosecutor-general, members of the national election commission, and supreme court justices, but no successors have been named, because Maduro is unwilling to negotiate with the opposition and lacks the two-thirds majority in the National Assembly needed to appoint officials of his choosing.
Now the court in Karlsruhe will have to determine whether the EU’s recently agreed European Stability Mechanism (ESM) is consistent with the Basic Law.
Thus, Ireland might yet play as significant a part as Germany in determining the future of any amendments to the EU constitutional order, with each country’s top court playing as important a role as politicians in shaping Europe’s future.
Last September, the court allowed the German government to sign the Treaty Establishing the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), the eurozone’s permanent intergovernmental rescue facility.
To be sure, the German court has no jurisdiction over the ECB – and thus has no power to judge its actions.
If the court finds that the ECB’s actions are unlawful, it can constrain German institutions – even the German parliament.
Udo Di Fabio, a renowned former judge on the court, has argued that the tribunal could even force the German government to unwind the EU treaties if it does not succeed in curbing the OMT program.
Unfortunately, while Berlusconi's government is invariably long on speeches, legal provisions designed to stop the clock on his court cases are among the few laws that have passed in his two years of government.
The project of an international court of justice is ridiculed and resented.
So there may be a case for re-examining the Geneva Convention just as there is for looking afresh at the project to establish a permanent international criminal court.
Since America persists in rejecting the present court proposal (which has not yet entered into force), European governments, instead of sticking to it with equal obduracy, would do better to suggest an ad hoc international court to deal with Al Qaida-type culprits, perhaps attached to the Hague Tribunal now sitting in judgment over the war criminals of the Balkan Wars.
Creating such a court would demonstrate that acts of international terrorism are an affront to the international community as a whole, not merely to the US.
And while achieving this level of involvement is not always easy, the legal system has a solution that dates to the early days of Roman law: the amicus curiae, or “friend of the court.”
To that end, friends of the court – people who are not party to a case but have an interest in how it is decided – can either submit expert advice or act as a special-interest advocate.
The Digital TrialNEW YORK – On October 3, an Italian appeals court overturned Amanda Knox’s murder conviction and ordered her immediate release from prison.
But their DNA testing turned out to be so shoddy that the appeals court felt compelled to reject it as unreliable.
Effective prosecutors and defense lawyers mine the popular imagination for well-known characters (“she-devil,” “femme fatale”) and stock scripts (“sex game gone wrong”) to help frame their story in court.
Through leaks to the media, interviews, social networking, and specially designed Web sites, lawyers often disseminate their narratives in the court of public opinion.
But in early September, Brazil’s electoral court ruled that Lula’s previous conviction on (dubious) corruption charges disqualified him from running.
Despite the fact that the court had given Bolsonaro a clear path to victory, Brazil’s democrats stayed quiet, rather than rallying behind Lula.
The court was right to question the factual basis of the ECB’s claim that the risk premiums reflected an unfounded market fear – a claim that was based on cherry-picked evidence.
As the German court pointed out, the prospect of default will help to maintain financial-market discipline.
In several African countries, there are impressive legal instruments in terms of independent court systems; but the challenge consists in impartial implementation.
But African leaders viewed it as evidence of the ICC’s bias against Africa, and have used Kenyatta’s victory to amplify their criticism of the court.
By the time the AU acted, criticizing the perceived bias of the ICC, support for the court had waned enough that African leaders knew that they had leverage.
“All this talk about the ICC being a foreign court,” he said, “is an excuse to let people get away with killing innocent people.”
In fact, Kenyatta might feel compelled to maintain his political style even if he is acquitted, in order to prove to the world that the court made the right decision.
And as for private persons standing up to the government in court, the idea was utterly inconceivable.
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