A tribunal is a judicial assembly; a judicial authority within the ambit of Section 74(1) (ii) of the Evidence Act, 1872. Similarities between Tribunal and Court: All tribunals are not Courts, though all Courts are tribunals. The word ‘Court’ is used to designate those tribunals, which ...
and the question of whether he had suffered psychiatric injury, the court had to reach its own findings based upon the evidence. The court stated that the damages claim for psychiatric injury was decided solely on the lay and expert evidence it heard in this case. It was ironic that the SS...
In 1995, after the end of apartheid, Ms. Pillay was appointed as acting judge of the South African High Court, and in the same year was elected by the UN General Assembly to sit as a judge on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), where she served a total of eight ...
It would require, however, assessment of further evidence and with somewhat of a different approach to the one adopted in the current study, in order to determine the actual existence and extent of State practice and its acceptance in the form of opinio juris. The following analysis also ...
Legal and Extralegal Origins of Sentencing Disparities: Evidence from Russia's Criminal Courts This paper conducts the first analysis of sentencing disparities related to social characteristics of offenders in Russia. It uses the dataset of sentencin... Volkov,Vadim - 《Journal of Empirical Legal Stu...
As with specific subsections of civil law, there is evidence that the new Company Law may be difficult to implement and slow to create change. While some aspects of the law may cause immediate changes, such as those ‘that can be applied automatically by local government officials and that ...
Stories about “trials by ordeal” abound in Africa and worldwide. In some parts of the continent, these “trials” still exist – with predictably unjust and sometimesfatal results. Trials by ordeal are capricious and unscientific, and the overall system is poor in evaluating evidence, reasoning...
Specifically, in the field of law of the sea, despite historical evidence of African peoples actively participating in marine activities long before the slave trade and colonialism, people from the continent were excluded from the creation of early law of the sea due to eurocentrism and colonialism...
LAW 5314. Evidence.4 Credit Hours. Presentation of evidence; judicial control and legal reasoning in the determination of issues of fact; topics relating to the admissibility of evidence, including relevancy, testimonial and real evidence; the original writing rule; and topics relating to the exclusi...
Prosecutor v. Lubanga2007, §§ 306–314 (The evidence the Court refers to is the ratification of the ICC statute (11 April 2002) before the relevant period; Geneva Conventions and two Additional Protocols (protected persons); 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child; Appeals Chamber decisio...