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In the wake of the riots, British Prime Minister David Cameron has proposed reviving children’s courts, urged harsh sentences and orange jumpsuits for convicts, and floated even more odious ideas.
But the
courts
denied his appeals.
The attack on Khodorkovsky clearly demonstrates that prosecutors and
courts
can readily be manipulated by the politically powerful.
When it comes to the judiciary, it is clear that higher salaries for judges and clerks, better computer systems, and other technical equipment would improve the courts’ efficiency and performance.
Setting up a new, independent alternative dispute-resolution system outside the
courts
would cost something, but it would ensure quicker and more acceptable resolution of routine disputes.
Previously, corporations and individuals all over the world who claimed that they had been defamed – even if those suing or those who allegedly defamed them had little or no connection to the United Kingdom – would bring lawsuits for libel in the British
courts.
That provided a sufficient nexus for the British
courts
to accept jurisdiction.
The US Congress adopted legislation, signed by President Barack Obama, making such judgments unenforceable in American
courts.
The courts’ moral stature makes them an important ally in efforts to clean up South African politics.
The authority of military
courts
would be curtailed to some extent.
Meanwhile, our most fundamental institutions – schools, police, and the
courts
– must be re-engineered to reflect and respond to the diversity of our communities, which is now a fact of life.
The dispute remained intractable, and dragged interminably through the
courts.
In his decade in power, Putin has consolidated and strengthened the security forces, intimidated and jailed opponents, and muzzled the media and
courts.
The international legal gold standard is a treaty, a binding document that can be enforced by
courts
and arbitration tribunals.
Most business is not conducted in
courts
but in meetings where trust and reputation are essential.
It carefully enumerates and decries actions taken by Poland’s government that, according to Polish and international
courts
alike, amount to an attack on the rule of law and liberal democracy.
Lawyers write a lot of contracts, and
courts
spend a lot of time enforcing them, but these institutions cannot cover everything.
Opposition parties have not been banned, and the
courts
have not lost their independent authority.
And US
courts
upheld these legal innovations, using flexible common-law precedents to decide who would acquire the privileged status of “white.”
The Krytyka Polityczna study demonstrates that voters take their views on the courts, refugees, and opposition politicians from top party leaders, rather than from their own experiences.
So property rights rely on
courts
and legal enforcement, and markets depend on regulators to rein in abuse and fix market failures.
Insofar as guilty individuals were concerned, on the other hand, we believed that people responsible for crimes should be judged by the courts, and the government, which stood for the independence of the judiciary, could not interfere with this.
Similarly, foreign
courts
exercising universal jurisdiction over alleged Syrian war criminals found on their territory would be free to ignore an amnesty.
In a series of bizarre prosecutions, Turkish
courts
have jailed hundreds of defendants – military officers, journalists, academics, and lawyers – for allegedly plotting to topple the country’s democratically elected government.
Vindication comes quickly in Hollywood movies, but not in Turkey, whose
courts
have so far seemed oblivious to the glaring problems with evidence presented by police and prosecutors.
Indeed, their political ideal is not order, but rather the subordination of all independent bases of power that could challenge them: courts, media, business, cultural institutions, NGOs, and so forth.
Monarchs and their
courts
can, to some extent, still act as leaders of art, music, and fashion, as they did in the eighteenth century.
The
courts
did their job.
The proposed alternative of separation payments but no recourse to the
courts
is the right economic answer, or at least it goes in the right direction.
Yes, Dubai, with its man-made islands, hotels simulating Venice, and roof-top tennis courts, is a real-world castle in the sand.
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