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This statement itself was unlawful because, according to Russia's constitution, dismissals of duly elected officials should occur only by virtue of court orders.
Mr Ojdanic was indicted a year ago by the Hague-based tribunal, a court established with Moscow's assent, for crimes against humanity in Kosovo.
On October 10, the villagers’ lawyers were told that the court hearing scheduled that day was canceled.
Regulators are instructed, in no uncertain terms, to make sure that all large financial firms are structured in such a way that bankruptcy, using the standard rules and procedures of the court system, can happen without repeating the catastrophic post-Lehman cascade.
Second, it is fanciful to believe that the private sector would want to get involved in providing funding to a huge financial firm under court supervision, particularly during a systemic crisis.
And a large loan – in the tens of billions of dollars – provided by the US Treasury to a bankruptcy court judge is unlikely to be politically acceptable or economically sensible.
But in the end, Litvinenko got her day – actually, 34 days – in court.
A second agreement would establish a “stand-still transition,” whereby the UK would retain the benefits of EU membership, but also the obligations, such as contributing to the EU budget, allowing for the free movement of people, and adhering to European court rulings.
While no one doubts the willingness of Iraqi judges to try their former "head of state" in a national court, the novelty of such an effort and its political implications suggest some type of international participation for the sake of competence and, most of all, impartiality.
An internationalized court in Iraq for the prosecution of crimes against humanity would contribute to the development of a national justice system that will actually deliver justice for all Iraqis, and will thus assist the already encouraging efforts of the Iraqi Governing Council towards democracy.
Another is the Supreme Court; the court already has one vacant seat for the next president to fill and is likely to have more over the next four years.
But a recent New York court ruling against Argentina in a case brought by a holdout hedge-fund creditor has dramatically raised the stakes of sovereign default and bankruptcy.
When holdouts are rewarded by court decisions, and the rights of recalcitrant creditors are recognized in other jurisdictions, efforts at “voluntary” restructuring become unsustainable.
The problems Witte dealt with were the same we confronted over the past decade: corruption, the pseudo-patriots who oppose everything foreign (including capital), and an elite and court system dominated by interest groups, rather than defending the state against them.
Only last April, a Berlin court concluded that Iran’s top leaders ordered the 1992 murders in Germany of four Iranian opposition leaders, and American investigators of the bomb attack on a US base in Saudi Arabia last summer seem convinced that here, too, Iran lit the fuse.
The Healing of TaiwanBANGKOK – Last week, a Taiwanese court sentenced Chen Shui-bien, Taiwan’s president from 2000 until 2008, to life imprisonment for corruption.
On December 16, Orhan Pamuk, one of Turkey’s most famous writers, will enter an Istanbul court to face a charge of “insulting the national identity” after he advocated open discussion of the Turkish genocide of 1.5 million Armenians in 1915 and 1916.
(Disclosure: I serve on the board of one such company, ExxonMobil, which is awaiting the results of arbitration in international court.)
The German court considers OMT a violation of the ban on monetary financing of governments.
According to the court, the scheme can be legal only if it is limited in size ex ante, rules out losses on sovereign debt, and avoids “interferences with price formation on the market.”
Limiting the ECB’s purchases of government bonds ex ante, as the German court requires, would be nonsensical, because it could easily invite market speculation.
Given the disagreement surrounding the OMT program and eager to avoid future court rulings, the German Parliament could be inclined to support only those rescue programs that rule out OMT support, such as the European Stability Mechanism’s “precautionary conditioned credit line,” instead of the more flexible “enhanced conditions credit line.”
Back in Holland, a case is being made against him in an Amsterdam court for “spreading hatred” against Muslims.
The British ban, as well as the impending court case, has actually made Wilders more popular in the Netherlands, where one poll indicated that his populist anti-Muslim party, the PVV, would get 27 seats in parliament if elections were held today.
Let them speak, so that they can be judged, not in court, but by contrary opinions.
And, back on the field or court, serious infractions occur all the time.
And, while the prosecution rate constituted a minimal improvement on previous years, when less than 15% of cases ended up in court, the conviction rate for reported rapes “is markedly lower today than it was in 1965.”
The ball, as the Americans say, is in Merkel’s court.
For example, court orders against employers who had dismissed workers for engaging in union activities were not enforced.
Indeed, the British government was already taking the European Central Bank to court to challenge that policy before the treaty veto.
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