Chief justice: High court will consider cameras in trials; A panel will present a pilot program to weigh greater camera use, he said in a speech. He also pushed for changing how judges are selected.(NEWS)Walsh, Paul
Although there is little time left in Mr Donald TSANG's term, this opportunity will actually enable the Hong Kong public and him to be treated fairly and what I hope all the more is that ― of course, we understand that at present, the former Chief Justice of the Court of Final appeal...
Tokyo High Court gave the custody of Z to X on September 16, 1998 [4], for the following reasons. "To determine who should be the person in parental authority for the minor, Z, it is necessary to take into consideration the fact that there is no blood relationship between Y and Z. ...
265 constitute an inviolable 'basic feature' of the Constitution of India.43 Successive Supreme Court judgements have construed the ECI's powers in conducting elections as "plenary in nature."44 The 'Universe' of Suffrage The adoption of "universal adult franchise," as the first Chief Election ...
On 16 November 1936 Pashukanis reached the high point of his career: the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR appointed him Deputy Peoples Commissar for Justice of the USSR. In the same year he was deputy chairman of the Drafting Committee for the 1936 “Stalin Constitution...
An Arabic inscription engraved in the stone lintel of the archway reads: God is witness that there is no God but He, and the angels and all those possessing knowledge stand up for justice. There is no God but He, the mighty and the wise. Verily, in God's sight the true religion is...
Bezrukov, Head of the Main Computing Center; Ryzhov, Deputy Chief of the Financial Department, and Stepanov, Macro-planning and Modeling Department. The leader of the World Bank team, John Holsen, opened the session with a question: “We need to understand the future role of Gosplan; how ...
In presenting the majority opinion in that case, Chief Justice John Roberts made a claim that constitutes a second major feature of the new narrative: that enough racial progress has been made to eliminate the need for the VRA’s legal remedies. The claim is anything but true. A recent Bren...
James Madison’s eloquent and elaborate defense of robust free speech protections; The congressman, journalists and ordinary Americans who were prosecuted and imprisoned for voicing their opinions; The prosecutorial zeal of Secretary of State Matthew Pickering and Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase (aka ...
It marks, I believe, one of Shakespeare's chief innovations on the historical chronicles he presumably consulted. For he was not only interested in the psychological effects of soothsaying in the mind of a historical agent, but also intrigued by the factual effects of prophetic utterance, itself...