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Donors have trained police and prosecutors and built courts and detention centers.
Courts in countries as diverse as Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Guatemala are indicting and even jailing prominent politicians and business people.
But, for reasons that remain unexplained, the Soviet courts expunged his criminal record in 1978, shortly before he joined the Communist Party.
He and his supporters also have taken aim at the fundamental institutions upon which American democracy is based, including the courts, the legislative branch, the independent media, and more.
To clear the system’s massive backlog of cases, the authorities should consider recruiting part-time magistrates and opening courts on weekends and during the summer.
Medium-term reforms should include the establishment of specialized courts and the promotion of alternative dispute-resolution mechanisms.
When I was taken to task for some infringement of administrative law or alleged excessive use of my legal powers, he would never be able to tell me how the courts would ultimately rule.
Unless Philippine law-enforcement officials preempt the ICC by bringing a good-faith prosecution against Duterte in Philippine courts, the ICC can take action.
The “Polish underground State supervised by the Polish Government-in-Exile created a mechanism of systematic help and support to Jewish people, and its courts sentenced Poles for collaborating with German occupation authorities, including for denouncing Jews.”
For China now has a bankruptcy code with teeth, and the country’s courts are beginning to enforce it with rigor.
But stricter and more reasonable standards should be established for courts’ approval of restructuring plans.
To prevent fraud, an acute problem in the past, the new law established a “right of rescission,” whereby the receiver can ask courts to rescind any action by a debtor that involves fraud, evasion, or unfair liquidation in the prescribed period before a bankruptcy petition is accepted and assets recovered.
And in a case brought by fourteen foreign nationals, the court cast aside the government's argument that because the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay is nominally under Cuban sovereignty, American courts lack jurisdiction to entertain legal claims brought by persons who had no say in where the U.S. military chose to detain them.
But I remain hopeful that we will prevail in the end, when higher courts hear Tempo's appeal.
Indonesia's courts are cleaner at the top, and the Head of the Supreme Court is a staunch advocate of democracy and press freedom.
Adityanath’s behavior has triggered multiple criminal cases against him, which are languishing in India’s notoriously slow-moving courts.
Those disagreements are not only about Israel, or US tariffs on steel imports from the EU, or the possibility of American courts imposing the death penalty on suspected terrorists who carry European passports; they increasingly embody a fundamentally different vision about how the world should work.
All of these changes were rammed through the Congress as constitutional amendments, exempting them from appeals to the courts.
The courts cannot fulfill these tasks alone, especially in the time the proposal under consideration has allotted – a 48-hour weekend.
Unable to plan ahead, the courts would enter into the restructuring process unfamiliar with the bank.
Moreover, the courts cannot manage the kind of economy-wide crisis that would arise if multiple mega-banks sank simultaneously.
The simple fact is that government regulators can do things that courts cannot.
Courts lack the staff and expertise to come up with a nation-wide recovery plan.
When courts preside over nonfinancial bankruptcies, they depend on private lenders to provide emergency liquidity.
Yet courts cannot negotiate understandings with foreign regulators.
The courts can help, especially after they have developed a routinized process for restructuring banks, as they have done with airline restructurings.
But we should be wary about relying on courts to do things they have never been asked to do before.
Moreover, Maliki has used the criminal courts to silence his political opponents.
An elected populist demagogue eliminates or weakens the checks and balances on his authority by undermining the independence of the courts and other bodies, severely restricting the freedom of the press, tilting the playing field to make elections easier to win, and delegitimizing and imprisoning political opponents.
For although Gagik Tsarukyan was convicted of a sexual crime in the Soviet era, two years ago Armenia’s courts exonerated him by vacating the decision of the Soviet court.
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