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Today it is entirely normal for the Court to take up the task of monitoring the execution of government policies as well as the progress of criminal investigations. But this expansion of judicial power has not been matched by a coequal expansion of oversight mechanisms to ensure that judicial ...
Steve Barclay, Chief Secretary to the Treasury,chose a heavy news day today to slip out anannouncementthat the Treasury had finally given way to the courts and dropped pension discrimination against 4.1 million workers in Whitehall, the NHS,teachers, prison officers and firefighters and ambulance st...
Today the U.S. has several hundred federal courts. The judiciary serves to arbitrate between individual disputants, or an individual and a state or the federal government. The federal judiciary also assesses the constitutionality of laws written and passed by Congress. What is distinctive about the...
In 2010, the KMT tried to revoke the membership of Hsu Shu-po 許舒博, a party list legislator, because he had been convicted of corruption by a lower court. Hsu sued to stop the action, and the court (incredibly!) ruled that the KMT’s action was unreasonable since Hsu’s case was...
The Singapore embassy in Washington, and even Tony Hall, the congressman from Dayton who is trying to gather support for Fay's cause, say they are receiving a flood of letters, mostly in the same vein. This cannot be helping Fay, whose slim hope of escape from the cane now is last-min...
As J.E.F. nears its seventh year, we just wanted to wish our readers Happy Holidays and an Ethical New Year. Although not of the typical Holiday variety, here are some stories and scholarship for your reading list: (1) After well-known Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Seamus McCaffery ...
2. PURPOSE:This training update aims to educate the bench and bar about critically essential facts that must be considered in every Domestic Strangulation bail hearing and prosecution. An extensive list of resource materials and authorities is listed at the end of this training update. ...
Start today. Try it now Social Studies for Kids 26 chapters | 903 lessons Ch 1. Civics & Government for Elementary School History of Texas: Lesson for Kids Texas' Government: Lesson for Kids Miranda v. Arizona Summary: Lesson for Kids McCulloch v. Maryland Summary: Lesson for ...
If your trial will be heard by a jury, then the selection of that jury is very important. Jury pools are pulled from the big list of registered voters in your area. In some courts, the judge will ask the potential jurors all of the questions, but in others the attorneys will also be...