Sentences with phrase «fair trial at»

The military commissions fall so far short of international human rights standards that it is impossible for Khadr to receive a fair trial at Guantánamo.

Not exact matches

Lawyers for the shareholders called the settlement «fair, reasonable, and adequate,» citing the risk of a loss at trial, according to court papers.

At trial in San Francisco federal court in 2012, the jury deadlocked on Google's fair use defense.

With 1,500 of them out there converting two Chin - amen apiece per annum against an uphill birth rate of 33,000 pagans per day, it will take upward of a million years to make the conversions balance the output and bring the Christianizing of the country in sight to the naked eye; therefore, if we can offer our missionaries as rich a field at home at lighter expense and quite satisfactory in the matter of danger, why shouldn't they find it fair and right to come back and give us a trial?

As second «in «command at Yale, Kernan sat next to President Kingman Brewster at the faculty meeting in which Brewster impulsively tried to placate the rebels by saying that he was «skeptical of the ability of black revolutionaries to achieve a fair trial anywhere in the United States.»

Just four days into the trial of a Manhattan nanny accused of butchering two children, a juror has already been booted after complaining at least twice that he did not think he could be fair.

«We wonder if it is even possible for these officers to receive a fair trial given that the powers that be regularly use correction officers as a scapegoat for decades of mismanagement at Rikers,» he said.

At common law it is contempt, with intent to impede or prejudice the administration of justice, to publish material calculated to prejudice the fair trial of a pending imminent cause.

At noon, federal and state judges, lawyers and journalists explore the interplay of First Amendment rights when attending and reporting on criminal trials as well as the Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial, New York State Bar Association, 1 Elk St., Albany.

In his letter, Laufer argues Sugarman or someone at the state Board of Elections may have broken the law by leaking the memo, which could constitute interference with an ongoing law enforcement investigation, or could deprive people of their right to a fair trial.

In an unusual move designed to make criminal trials fairer, state Court of Appeals Chief Judge Janet DiFiore issued a new rule requiring judges to forcefully order prosecutors to search their files and disclose all evidence favorable to the defense at least 30 days before major trials.

The leader of the Commons, Harriet Harman, said Mr Cameron should not be speaking about the cases at all - as his comments could affect the chances of the accused MPs getting a fair trial.

From my own experience, I wish you would at least give a whole foods, animal free, no added fat diet a fair trial and see how you feel.

After you've given the program a fair trial (at the very least 6 - 8 dedicated weeks), then, if you want to, you can try another one to compare.

At this point, like I said, I've tried higher carbs (30 %) and lower fats before and that did nothing to reduce bf, so who knows until I give keto a fair trial.

In a nutshell, Fantastic Four is like literally watching a science experiment being created though years of trial and error instead of the finished project with a cool presentation at a science fair.

This lesson looks at how fair witch trials were in Britain during the 17th Century.

«The evidence at trial overwhelmingly showed that these statutes promote and support important public interests like attracting and retaining qualified teachers for California public schools while providing objective, fair, and transparent procedures in the event of economic layoffs,» the unions stated in announcing their appeal.

To conduct a fair trial, we took the baby RS on roadways and raceways — at sea level, and 2,500 feet above it.

Given that Hyatt has since discontinued the Hyatt Diamond Trial program for the public at large, it might be fair to assume I was wrong and enough people were in fact getting the better of Hyatt after all.

Its a subtle new mode that changes the experience, but at the same time makes the game more fair, less trial and error when it comes to weapon choices.

As for the day's developments, the leftie wallahs at ThinkProgress have a piece on the Mann vs Steyn trial of the century, and by comparison with the excitable Pajama Boys of last week (latest to Xerox the party line: Philadelphia Magazine) it's a pretty fair statement of where we're at (and even the comments - Fox News, big - money donors - are comparatively genial).

The Goldman Prize is calling for a fair and transparent trial for 2007 Goldman Prize winner Tsetsegee Munkhbayar, who was arrested in September 2013 at a demonstration in front of a Mongolian parliament building, during which a rifle was accidentally discharged.

The Goldman Prize is calling for a fair and transparent trial for 2007 Goldman Prize winner Tsetsegee Munkhbayar, who was arrested in September 2013 at a demonstration in front of... Read More

Therefore, in light of European case law, the SCC concludes that the absolute content of the right to a fair trial does not require that a person convicted in absentia has the chance of applying for retrial if the right has been voluntarily and unequivocally waived and the person was duly summoned and defended at trial by counsel.

In criminal proceedings, it is well - established that a stay for abuse of process may arise either because it is no longer possible to have a fair trial (limb one); or because it offends the court's sense of justice and propriety to try the accused in the particular circumstances of the case (limb two), see R v Maxwell [2010] UKSC 48, [2011] 4 All ER 941, per Lord Dyson SCJ at [13].

[170]... where the trial judge finds that representation of an accused by counsel is essential to a fair trial, the accused, as previously indicated, has a constitutional right to be provided with counsel at the expense of the state if he or she lacks the means to employ one.

From the year 2000, the SCC established that the absolute content of the right to a fair trial (Article 24 (2) of the Constitution) included the right to be physically present at the hearing in criminal proceedings related to serious offences.

58 It is apparent, furthermore, from the case - law of the European Court of Human Rights that the right to a fair trial, guaranteed by Article 6 (1) of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, signed at Rome on 4 November 1950, which corresponds to the second paragraph of Article 47 of the Charter, does not preclude «summons by public notice», provided that the rights of those concerned are properly protected (see Judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in Nunes Dias v Portugal [2003], Reports of Judgments and Decisions 2003 - VI).

After the Translation and Interpretation Directive, the Right to Information Directive and the Access to a Lawyer Directive, this new Directive tries to enhance the right to a fair trial through the adoption of common minimum rules on certain points of the presumption of innocence and the right to be present at trial (Recital 9).

At Buchanan and Buchanan, we are skilled investigating bicycle accidents and successfully negotiate fair settlements with insurance companies, and persuasively present cases at trial when insurers refuse to do what is righAt Buchanan and Buchanan, we are skilled investigating bicycle accidents and successfully negotiate fair settlements with insurance companies, and persuasively present cases at trial when insurers refuse to do what is righat trial when insurers refuse to do what is right.

At the McArthur Law Firm, we fight and do not back down until our clients have received a full and fair settlement, or we take the case to trial.

On the eve of a major jury trial, on behalf of one of numerous defendants, we obtained an emergency stay of the trial from Pennsylvania Supreme Court because the Fair Share Act requires all co-defendants be tried at one time.

At the end of the day, it is a matter of having a fair trial, even in a preliminary procedure where, officially, the so - called «interested persons» submit observations.

So, information you can not seek at trial can be fair game in a deposition, and that is the beauty of depositions.

That Directive aims at ensuring the right to a fair trial of those suspected and accused persons that do not speak or understand the language of the proceedings by providing them with linguistic assistance.

It has become more and more difficult to get a fair chance at trial due to the anti-employee bias of many federal judges, including the evermore difficult standards required to get past summary judgment.

If in principle this was a situation where Turkey might extradite, then they will also want to see enough evidence that the case should go to court, they would want to know that there would be a fair trial, and at last such a decision might, depending on the countries involved, depend on political considerations.

The district judge at trial agreed with Jones and, having found the presumption rebutted, considered what was «fair and just» with regard to the course of dealings between the parties, awarding Jones a 90 % share in the property.

Barrister and brother of the prime minister Alex Cameron QC is working free of charge in a bid to halt the trial, he successfully argued at Southwark Crown Court earlier this month that the three defendants would not get a fair trial as they were not sufficiently represented.

A San Diego boating accident attorney at Injury Trial Lawyers, APC can help you get fair compensation for all losses caused by the accident.

We are fully prepared to fight for fair compensation at every stage of the process, up to and including trial.

This was most clearly illustrated by his handling of the notorious Fells Acre daycare child abuse case, as MLW publisher David Yas writes at his blog, The AffiDavid, «where he defiantly stood up to the Supreme Judicial Court in granting new - trial motions where he felt that the accused in the abuse cases had not been given a fair shake.»

If, however, you were convicted, and the Court found that you knew that the victim hadn't died at the time of trial, but you did not raise the fact that the victim wasn't dead, it isn't clear if you could have the original conviction vacated because it was a fair trial and you knew evidence sufficient to get yourself acquitted (which you may have refrained from presenting to avoid conviction on a lesser charge like kidnapping or aggravated assault), and the status of an «actual innocence» grounds for vacating a conviction after trial is hotly disputed, conservatives like the late Justice Scalia generally say «no», liberals generally say «yes», moderates like to say «yes» but make it almost impossible to establish except in rare cases like one where a live person walks in when there was a murder conviction for killing that actually living person.

As a general rule it is unlikely that the trial will be fair if a very substantial degree of anonymising of evidence is permitted where the testimony of the witnesses concerned constitutes the sole or decisive evidence implicating the defendant (Lord Carswell at 59).

What is at stake requires that the court must balance what justice demands: that the accused receive a fair trial, that witnesses are not deterred from testifying, and that the judge, jury and lawyers are not distracted during the proceedings, against what the public interest in justice and our democracy requires....

Our skilled team of attorneys will work with insurance adjusters on your behalf to reach a fair settlement agreement or fight to obtain the best possible outcome for you at trial.

If an accused pleads guilty or is found guilty at trial, the Court must then determine a sentence that is fair given all of the circumstances, the seriousness of the offence, and the offender's degree of responsibility.

... In light of the fundamental constitutional rights at stake, before a judge finds that a defendant has forfeited his right to counsel and imposes the extreme sanction of denying an indigent defendant the assistance of counsel at trial or otherwise, she must first conduct a hearing at which the defendant has a full and fair opportunity to offer evidence as to the totality of the circumstances that may bear on the question of whether the sanction of forfeiture is both warranted and appropriate.

My fair comment defence relied on true facts that were in evidence at trial: the student report, the plaintiff's evaluation report of the student report, and access to information documents that had been made public by the student association.