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Appeals in the Russian courts failed, and he filed a case with the ECHR in March 2006.
They are suffering huge financial losses by boycotting the courts, and yet they are determined that the Chief Justice must be reinstated.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has consistently used the courts to neutralize his opponents.
During his twenty months as CCP General Secretary, Zhao created a culture in which the Politburo refrained from interfering in the courts, and he stopped its attempts to control literature and the arts.
Moreover, Putin himself is in the business of sterilizing Russia’s democratic processes by handpicking his successor and having his courts and electoral commissions block his opponents from political participation, often tarring them as traitors.
Trump is learning this in his confrontations with Congress, the courts, and state governments.
In Europe, domestic political forces routinely clash with constitutional courts and supranational bodies.
Indeed, the emergence of international criminal tribunals suggests that accountability for crimes against international law ought to be a matter addressed by independent courts, not by the unilateral exercise of military power.
Here, China can take inspiration from the Western common law system, in which cases are decided on the basis of existing precedents, or from the use of administrative courts to resolve disputes between individuals and the bureaucracy.
Meanwhile, American courts have forced Argentina into another national default.
Some Europeans worry that the constitution will enable courts to carry the integration process further and faster than public opinion in member states will tolerate.
Upon taking office, all US presidents soon realize that their domestic and economic policymaking authority is constrained by Congress and the courts, but that they have much more sway over foreign and national-security affairs.
Low-level corruption (the police, courts, and government clerks) has always been widespread in India.
The Trials of Asian DemocracyTOKYO – These are times of trial – literally in the courts – for a growing number of Asia’s democracies.
Each has been Prime Minister, and both have sought, while in office, to use the courts to keep the other out of power, even out of politics altogether – seemingly without regard to the cost.
Yes, Lee’s system enabled him to remain in power for 31 years, and he did use the civil – not criminal – courts to harry his opponents.
Trump administration attorneys insist that the case is “nonjusticiable,” meaning that the courts are not the proper venue to resolve the issues in Juliana; even if this was not the case, they continue, the plaintiffs lack standing to sue.
The US federal courts from the district level up to the Supreme Court – all of which have already ruled that the case should go to trial – clearly disagree.
The new United Nations tribunal that was formed – nearly five decades after the final judgments were rendered at Nuremberg and Tokyo – became the forerunner of ad hoc courts to prosecute perpetrators of Rwanda’s genocide, Charles Taylor and his blood-diamond butchers in Sierra Leone, and the Khmer Rouge killers in Cambodia.
Out of this massacre, however, the tribunal and foreign-backed war-crimes courts in Bosnia and Serbia have delivered the international justice effort’s most significant achievement to date.
It is an imperfect, unsatisfying justice, to be sure, but no more imperfect or unsatisfying than that dispensed by national courts.
The tribunal and the local courts imprisoned 13 of those who gave the orders, as well as 17 execution-squad members; 11 more men, four of them leaders, are facing their reckoning.
In other words, the courts should be able to make decisions independently of the local governments that finance them.
Even when the police have investigated cases and referred them to the courts, prosecution has proceeded at a glacial pace or has not occurred at all.
They should also work to build the capacity of women’s organizations to hold the government to account by monitoring the LNP and the courts.
Such legislation must also have rigid compliance standards that are reviewed and enforced by the state’s electoral authorities and courts.
But, while such judicial scrutiny may be effective in eliminating some egregious cases, it cannot ensure that raters do the right thing when courts are not expected to be able to tell after the fact what the right thing was.
Only swift and firm intervention from impartial external parties working in concert with the National Assembly and the courts can avert a looming disaster.
Sri Lanka is blessed with brilliant people, indefatigable civil-society organizations, decent courts and infrastructure, and abundant natural resources.
Moreover, while more than 60 municipalities have passed local regulations to ban the drilling, the courts have declared several of these measures unconstitutional on the grounds that they exceed communal powers – a move that also undercuts local democracy.
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