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The only thing they would like less are obligations whose terms were enforced by
courts
as easy to manipulate as Argentina’s.
During the period after the fall of Mubarak, when the army exercised full power, 12,000 civilians were charged in military courts, virginity tests were imposed on women (particularly those protesting against the military), demonstrators were killed, and myriad human-rights violations were committed with impunity.
Authoritarians have always beaten up their opponents – physically, in the courts, and now on Twitter – to make them keep quiet.
There is physics; there is law; there are courts; there are procedures; and there are voters, only 36% of whom approve of Trump’s job performance.
That is why, for domestic debt disputes, countries have bankruptcy laws and
courts.
After all, what developing country with its citizens’ long-term interests in mind will be prepared to issue bonds through the US financial system, when America’s
courts
– as so many other parts of its political system – seem to allow financial interests to trump the public interest?
The problem with the American myth is that this rural idyll of perfect individual liberty, this state of nature, as it were, cannot possibly be maintained in a highly organized state of banks, courts, business corporations, and legislatures.
South African
Courts
at RiskPRETORIA – South Africa’s
courts
can be impressive – as demonstrated by Pretoria High Court Judge Hans Fabricius’s recent ruling that the country’s prosecutors must act against known torturers from Zimbabwe.
But those same
courts
are under threat from an appointment process in which politics and apathy are increasingly determining who sits on them.
While other eurozone countries have similar courts, these tribunals have significantly less clout.
According to the Supreme Court of India, in March 2012 the country had 31.2 million cases pending, more than 80% of them in lower
courts.
This Parliament enacted a new Family Law in 2004 that mandates full equality between men and women as “head of household,” full authority for state
courts
in matters of divorce, creation of special family courts, and the possibility of maternal custody in the event of divorce.
The process leading to the death penalties imposed by Sharia
courts
have drawn rebukes from around the world, and for good reason.
Sharia
courts
contend that unless four witnesses catch a man in the act, he cannot be convicted.
Sharia, with its emphasis on swift justice, is often preferable to civil law in a country such as Nigeria, where
courts
are poorly administered and cases move slowly, when they move at all.
It may surprise non-Muslims, but some Nigerian Christians prefer to file their cases in Sharia
courts
because of their speed, fairness, and relative unconcern with legal technicalities.
Since a failed coup attempt in 2016, Turkey’s
courts
have processed some 46,000 cases involving people accused of insulting the president, the nation, or its institutions.
One approach is to fight corruption with police and
courts.
This can never work because police and
courts
are themselves easily corruptible, as are the politicians who oversee them.
For example, officials recently declared that judicial independence and the separation of powers are “colonial” legacies that should be discarded, with China’s government and Hong Kong’s chief executive, not the local courts, calling all the shots.
For starters, policymakers can improve the investment climate by making laws clearer, taxes simpler,
courts
faster, and bureaucrats cleaner.
In the UK, a hundred Sharia
courts
adjudicate on divorce and other family cases, prompting Home Secretary Theresa May to promise a review of Sharia
courts
“to determine whether they are consistent with British values.”
The most important example is constitutional
courts
– a different animal from the US Supreme Court, and one specifically tasked with ensuring respect for individual rights.
Yet access to justice remains tightly constrained,
courts
are still controlled by the Communist Party of China (CPC), and lawyers involved in litigation against local state agencies remain highly vulnerable to retaliation by state and non-state actors.
Local courts, whose judges are appointed and paid by the local government, often simply refuse to file cases that challenge official decisions.
Because people cannot get justice through the courts, unrest has skyrocketed nationwide in recent years: official statistics record more than 200 protests a day, four times the number a decade ago.
While Austrian
courts
ultimately will determine the raid’s legality, the effects are already clear.
These emerging institutional arrangements include contracts and commercial law, bankruptcy and labor codes, and
courts
to oversee their enforcement.
But there is another, darker side to this craving, which is the wish to see idols dragged through the mud in vicious gossip magazines, divorce courts, and so on.
To ensure democratic legitimacy and satisfy national constitutional
courts
(not least Germany’s), a second European parliament would have to be established to serve as the eurozone’s legislative branch.
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