Sentences with phrase «british judiciary»

There may be more lessons to come as three recent judgments indicate the growing confidence and independence of the British judiciary.

This damage would have been far greater but for the integrity and independence of the British judiciary.

The Seventh Amendment and Article III Judicial Power were intended to protect life, liberty, and property from the executive and legislative branches, which could «overwhelm -LSB--RSB-» the British judiciary.

The ideas of early settlement or summary determination of unsuitable disputes, rigorous and costeffective case management of those that remained, coupled with the intellect and fairness that have always been the traditional hallmarks of the British judiciary, must have seemed at the time exactly what was required to maintain London's and the UK's competitiveness as a place to do business as well as argue about any resulting disputes.

A spokesman for the British judiciary told Business Insider that Sikorska's sentence was «not unusual,» considering the model's «mitigating factors,» such as her jobs and ongoing education.

Not exact matches

Such protections are provided not by evanescent «conventions» (in the traditional British sense), but, rather, by the willingness of an independent judiciary to enforce the prerogatives of the sub-national governments when, as is inevitable, the central government is tempted to overreach, perhaps because it refuses fully to accept the degree to which the traditional unitary state governed from Westminister is no more.

The Labour Party has directly intervened against 3rd World judiciaries who attempt to investigate government corruption, in order to protect the interests of corrupt British companies.»

This seems to me a flawed interpretation of British democracy, which allows the judiciary to overrule the popularly elected House of Commons, and which then allows the unrepresentative House of Lords to overrule both the House of Commons and the judiciary.

Generally, these social forms have sat like the British parliament has at times, as a simultaneous executive legislature and judiciary.

Sisters in Law (2005) This acclaimed documentary by British filmmaker, Kim Longinotto takes us into the courtrooms of Kumba in Cameroon and focuses on violence against women and female judiciaries.

Correspondingly the constitutional law of Indigenous territorial sovereignty is ignored by the North American judiciary, as recently illustrated by the decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in the case of Tsilhqot» in Nation v. British Columbia, 2014 SCC 44.

Then Lord Sumption, in an interview with the Evening Standard, urged the judiciary not to rush the whole gender equality business because British justice was (his words) «a terribly delicate organism».

In his lecture last December to The British Academy, the Master of the Rolls, Sir Anthony Clarke, commended the Woolf reforms for their lasting legacy of reforming the litigation culture, amongst legal practitioners, those they represent and the judiciary.

Even if the Supreme Court will only be set in 2009, the presentation of the UK judiciary on this website has undergone several changes and new links have been made to the relevant British websites.

These riveting stories provide helpful insights into the tenuous position of the colonial judiciary and the precarious state of politics in a variety of British colonies.

Smith points to Nova Scotia and British Columbia as regions whose judiciaries have embraced technology to a greater extent than other regions in Canada.