Sentences with phrase «fair trials»

Are fair trials heavily affected by the media?

The matter considered whether, by preventing a director from representing a company, the United Kingdom was in breach of its duty to afford access to fair trials.

The consequence to our justice system will be increased delays and expenditures as judges, crowns and duty counsel struggle to provide fair trials in complex cases where the stakes are high to self - represented individuals.

«Global Witness welcomes the swift steps taken by the Liberian government and believes that everyone investigated is entitled to due process under Liberian law and should receive fair trials.

As the BAD RAP experts and American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) behaviorists tested the dogs over three days and nights, proponents of fair trials and temperament testing for dogs all around the country held their breath.

But that's all we really needed of Gil, as he exists solely as a stand - in for yellow journalism and to have conversations with the Voice of Reason (Renzo Cesana) about the need for fair trials and a society without violence.

And if they let the situation continue much longer, some New Yorker's may not get fair trials.

«As long as people anywhere fight torture and slavery, treasure free speech, fair trials, personal privacy and liberty itself, Lord Bingham will be remembered.»

Globally, citizens lost free movement, equality rights, or fair trials.

Among them are life, liberty, security of person, freedom from slavery and from torture and inhumane treatment; equality before the law; the right to judicial remedies for wrongs; freedom from arbitrary arrest and detention; fair trials and due process of law, including the presumption of innocence; privacy; freedom of movement; equal rights in marriage; freedoms of speech, press, assembly and association; and free elections.

While there were dissenters, the Supreme Court found that Skilling's negative publicity didn't prevent him from receiving a fair trial — especially because Houston was the fourth - most - populous city in the country, allowing for a large jury pool.

Though public opinion seems to be split on whether or not her actually murdered Hae Min Lee, most listeners agree that he did not receive a fair trial.

Instead, he works out of a bullet - proof van, and defends the people no other lawyers want to represent: satanic - cult drug addicts, child molesters, you name it — all because he believes everyone deserves a fair trial, even if that means cheating the system to ensure his clients get one.

The 170 - page motion shows that there was significant corruption in the investigation, and it claims Ross did not receive a fair trial.

Manafort, who faces two federal indictments, seeks a hearing about the source of leaked information that he said interferes with his right to a fair trial in Alexandria, Virginia, where Special Counsel Robert Mueller signed an indictment accusing him of bank and tax fraud.

The law met with the provisional cause opposition from several American organizations, who perceived too late don't a fair trial and the contents of the act as a «virus» for the Fourth Repair.

«That Sudan continues to prosecute these men, and without even allowing them free access to their legal team, makes a mockery of the judicial process and is a clear violation of fair trial principles, as articulated in Article 7 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights (ACHPR) and Article 14 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), to which Sudan is a party.

«We urge the African Union and the wider international community, to challenge Sudan on its treatment of the pastors and its failure to protect and promote freedom of religion or belief and the right to a fair trial.»

For a person who should have been bought to the international court of justice to get a fair trial for his crime against humanity, for him to die of a headshot wound seems a bit dubious.

The article doesn't address any court proceedings, but I'm sure they had a fair trial and were duly represented by competent defense attorneys.

Would you trust a US national to get a fair trial in half of the nations in this world?

And in a world where many people (just look around this blog for examples) have already found them guilty just for being priests, how could they get a fair trial?

it's a bigger slap in the face when the church tries to hide criminals amoung it's ranks; less so then just handing them over to authorities to face a fair trial.

My father, a Baptist minister, got involved when he became concerned that the defendants couldn't get a fair trial in our small town.

But we have the right and the responsibilty to protect ourselves and each other for s - i - ns against man r - a-p-e and pe - do - ph - il - ia are s - i - ns against man and we should jud - ge them and pun - ish the cri - mi - nals after a fair trial with real eviden - ce none of the vi - gi - lan - ty stuff.

Look beyond the headlines and you'll learn Troy Davis was the killer there was plenty of physical evidence and he had many a fair trial.

You really believe that everything is all good now, racism is all gone, everyone always gets a fair trial, and it can never happen to you?

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.»

What he deserves is a fair trial, — followed by a public drowning.

If after a fair trial it does not, discard it and try another type.

(6) This may be why many Paleo experts have condemned fruit — perhaps before giving it a fair trial?

Essentially, the appeals court agreed with him, ruling in part that the lack of decorum in the courtroom had deprived McLain of a fair trial and overturning the conviction.

How could McLain have gotten a fair trial, Levine asked, when the judge had allowed jurors to stand in the jury box, eating food and drinking coffee during testimony?

«The jurors were so distracted it was impossible to get a fair trial.»

Women who have committed a crime during a postpartum psychotic episode are entitled to mental health treatment, due process and a fair trial, even when their crimes are horrible to imagine.

A fair trial must include reliable expert testimony about postpartum psychosis and the woman's diagnosis during the time of the crime.

The NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, is marking World Teachers» Day today (Friday) by urging members to stand up for two teachers who have been arrested and imprisoned without a fair trial for campaigning for better rights for teachers.

The accused's right to fair trial must always be guaranteed and protected by the state.

But the gravity of being denied anything close to a fair trial reached new depths on Friday, when the men were placed before a firing squad.

The parliamentary assembly of the European Court has called the scale of GCHQ's spying «stunning» and found it in violation of rights to privacy, free expression and a fair trial.

The Geneva Convention allows them to be «detained or prosecuted under the domestic law of the detaining state for such action; subject of course to international treaties on justice and human rights such as everyone's right to a fair trial.»

Next the Foreign Office's lawyers admitted that the three claimants were tortured by the British colonial authorities, but argued that too much time had passed to enable a fair trial.

In those countries where it remains, international safeguards aim to ensure legality and fair trial, principles of equality and consistency, and minimum standards of protection for vulnerable groups, as well as entailing imposition only for the most serious crimes.

In order to guarantee both the appearance and the substance of a fair trial in our neighbors» moments of greatest need,

When the barons squeezed concessions out of a reluctant King John back in 1215, out popped the foundations of justice as it's supposed to be - the right to a fair defence and a fair trial.

I have proposed a Prevention of Terrorism Bill, which would unwind the application of the Act and give us a proper terrorism law, ruling out the application of the HRA 1998 while insisting on habeas corpus, due process and fair trial on one hand, and guiding judicial interpretation of provisions during a public emergency on the other.

Sweden, which has summoned the Ecuadorian ambassador to the ministry to answer Quito's «serious» accusations, offered a stern denial that it would offer anything other than a completely fair trial for the 41 - year - old Australian.

The various Articles of the Convention proclaim the following: the right to life (Article 2); the prohibition of torture (Article 3); the prohibition of slavery and forced labour (Article 4); the right to liberty and security (Article 5); the right to a fair trial (Article 6); the prohibition of extra-legal punishment (Article 7); the right to respect for private and family life (Article 8); freedom of thought, conscience and religion (Article 9); freedom of expression (Article 10); freedom of assembly and association (Article 11); the right to marry (Article 12); the prohibition of discrimination (Article 14).

Coulson's lawyer accused the prime minister of an «astonishing and unprecedented» intervention which endangered his client's right to a fair trial.

«Huge, dramatic and sensational» coverage of the Leveson inquiry could prevent ex-Sun editor Rebekah Brooks getting a fair trial, her solicitor has warned.