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But the statute was heavily amended in the Spanish parliament, and, in 2010, Spain’s constitutional court struck down what little of importance was left in it.
But, too often, even if a court ruling is made, it is not enforced as a result of intimidation.
It took me three years in a London court to prove that I was being prosecuted for purely political reasons.
India’s strategic rivals, China and Pakistan, began to court the Burmese generals.
Taylor still faces the prospect of trial and, another former dictator, Saddam Hussein, is now on trial before a national court in Iraq.
The proceedings of the court over the last few weeks made Musharraf jittery.
In so far as formal legal rights existed, no court could be relied upon to enforce those rights when our rulers saw their interests as challenged.
If Khodorkovsky disagrees with the final decision of the Russian courts, he will undoubtedly appeal to that court.
US courts reasoned that it is better to allow the release of hateful sentiments than to call attention to them by showcasing them in court.
The ensuing dispute ended up involving several court cases, all of which the ACLU won.
The countries involved have different legal rules, different procedures for protecting local assets, and different court systems.
When the contents of these conversations are revealed in court, they will not allay the public’s already considerable distrust of the financial sector, to say the least.
If he wasn’t serious, it would be a risible argument; the ICC cannot deprive him of his life – as he has deprived thousands of Filipinos of theirs – because the court does not have the authority to impose the death penalty.
And, finally, Duterte suggested that the ICC had not met the requirement of “complementarity,” which stipulates that the court has jurisdiction only when a state is unwilling or unable to prosecute.
While Duterte’s petition suggests he understands that withdrawal from the Rome Statute will take a year, he ignores the fact that Bensouda would have jurisdiction to indict him – regardless of the Philippines’ future standing with the court – so long as a full investigation is launched before then.
The Trouble With SchremsPARIS – In October 2015, a court case launched by Max Schrems, a 28-year-old Austrian privacy activist and graduate student at the University of Vienna, led to the annulment of the so-called Safe Harbor agreement that governs how United States firms comply with the European Union’s privacy laws.
The acquittal by a US military court of two American soldiers who accidentally killed two Korean schoolgirls with their armored car last June triggered street demonstrations across the country.
Though some of the changes simply involved administrative regulations, the Patriot Act’s overall effect was to erode the great pillars of liberty, such as habeas corpus , the right to recourse to an independent court whenever the state deprives an individual of his freedom.
Elite schools recruit the wealthy to pay their bills, and court minorities to redress centuries of discrimination; but this no doubt fosters resentment among the white working class, whose kids find no place in this brave new world.
While the latter focus on the ability and willingness of the borrower to pay, the odiousness rating would provide an estimate of how likely it is that a court would decide that the debt falls with the regime.
As a result of the settlement, we will never learn the truth (at least the version that is established beyond a reasonable doubt in open court).
Domestically, Americans should be prepared to watch the administration dismiss officials who do not defend its agenda, and disregard court orders that inhibit its actions.
Russia, challenged to court new friends, but also struggling to manage its own weakening economy, is not interested in reviving a friendship with a country that seems to have made it a point of principle never to pay anyone for anything.
My work with the economic historian Jared Rubin exploring Istanbul’s seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Islamic court records may offer insights into why.
According to Islamic law (Sharia), Muslims had to do business according to Islamic rules, and if they wanted to adjudicate a conflict, they had to use an Islamic court.
But, of course, if they were involved in a case against a Muslim, that had to be handled in an Islamic court.
Second, the court staff was entirely Muslim, which meant that testimony was viewed solely from a Muslim perspective.
Until the United States ratifies the ICC treaty, the Court is bound to seem to many to be little more than a politicized kangaroo court.
A court, a place that furnishes binding jurisdiction for both oppressed minorities and for the countries riven by ethnic disputes is now required.
This court would be a place for civic and civilized settlement between ethnic minorities and state sovereignty.
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