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Yet the proceedings against 85 of them, including appeals, have been completed.
The proceedings of the court over the last few weeks made Musharraf jittery.
The Vatican has already recognized this view explicitly, with the Pontifical Academy of Sciences referring to the Anthropocene in the proceedings of a meeting held in May 2014.
Why have Mozilo and others been allowed to pay a relative pittance and avoid criminal proceedings?
And the proceedings have only just started.
The uncertainty and disruption of drawn-out and doubtless acrimonious divorce proceedings would depress investment and growth.
As a long-time advocate of bringing Saddam and his cohorts to justice for their crimes against the Kurds, the Marsh Arabs and many others, I endorse the Bush Administration's view that proceedings should not be limited to offenses committed in the current war.
Although those proceedings were admirable in many ways, including in the care taken to protect the procedural rights of the defendants, they have always been tainted by the charge of "victor's justice."
Similarly, debtors and creditors can rely on credible bankruptcy proceedings to determine their relative shares.
But the Security Council must be extremely cautious in considering any suspension of ICC proceedings.
The proceedings are held in open court, not in camera.
When the proceedings began a year ago, democratic Russia seemed to be catching up at long last with the civilized world in holding military officers accountable to the rule of law.
So, once again, that behavior must be censured, not only by other leaders, but also in legal proceedings.
Non-governmental monitors need to scrutinize the proceedings to ensure that errors are identified early enough to be corrected.
Done properly, the proceedings of the Extraordinary Chambers could have further positive ramifications by contributing to lasting changes in Cambodia's ordinary courts.
If incontrovertible evidence of serious malfeasance emerges, congressional Republicans, or even members of the executive branch, could begin proceedings against the president.
A neutral judge – not one of the creditors – usually sets the terms in insolvency proceedings.
First, if the UK-EU divorce proceedings become protracted and acrimonious, growth and markets will suffer.
The international community’s rejection of conspiracy charges is correct, I believe, because international criminal proceedings are oriented to post hoc justice – to judging those who are alleged to have already brought about massacres and other major crimes that concern the international community.
Such technical and legalistic proceedings are essential for shaping the global transition from the industrial to the digital era.
Other reports credited him with subsequently organizing both their trial and a firing squad – even before the legal proceedings began.
How Money Could Unblock the Brexit TalksLONDON – Like many divorce proceedings, Britain’s negotiations with the European Union have reached an impasse that can be broken only by compromise.
Under Iranian law, citizens can be forced to appear only before a competent Iranian court on the basis of firm evidence, undermining the quasi-judicial character of the Commission of Truth and effectively ending any realistic prospect of judicial proceedings.
Only real judicial proceedings can prove their guilt or innocence.
The AU should seek legal advice, have the issue included on the agenda of the UN General Assembly, advocate the freezing of international debt payments while arbitration proceedings are taking place and secure the support of the international community, especially NGOs that have a track record in raising awareness about Africa's debts.
Any compensation retrieved from such legal proceedings should be used to establish an African monetary fund whose objective would be to put Africa on a fast track to comprehensive regional integration, enabling the continent to capitalize on globalization's positive features.
But comparisons to the post-WWII Nuremberg tribunal have worn thin: as the proceedings drag on, observers wonder why it has taken so long to establish criminal liability.
When numerous committees meet in parallel, the countries with the largest teams of experts dominate proceedings, effectively locking most countries out of key decisions and impeding meaningful dialogue.
Trying to prove genocidal intent has drawn prosecutors into thickets of interpretation – such as giving lessons on the history of Greater Serbia – that distract from trials’ forensic core and encourage their politicization, as defendants “hijack” proceedings with their own justificatory glosses.
There are also the political and economic turmoil in Pakistan and the risk of a rise in cyber-attacks – for example, in retaliation for criminal proceedings against WikiLeaks.
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