Sentences with phrase «judicial body»

It encompasses 18 international judicial bodies, grouped in six clusters according to their geographical scope and / or subject - matter jurisdiction.

Governments and judicial bodies now face the possibility of changing their attitude, by revisiting international laws and protocols.

These activities have the potential to violate human rights, and so our laws must reflect the highest standards and require intelligence agencies to require prior authorization by an impartial and independent judicial body.

Just as the government and legislature must respect the courts» expertise as judicial bodies, so too must courts appreciate that they are not best placed to make determinations as to which specific social or economic policy choice is most appropriate.

After scarcely a decade's labor in the county courts, Henry in 1769 was admitted to practice before the General Court, the highest judicial body in the colony.

Decisions of judicial bodies may be regarded as carrying greater (political rather than legal) authority than that of arbitral tribunals.

Justice calls for identification, exposure, condemnation and proportionate punishment of individuals who violate fundamental norms recognized internationally as crimes, and it calls for reparations to victims, by means of fair investigations and fair trials by an authorized judicial body.

[3] Most notable is the shift from administrative investigations, as they are now conducted by OLAF (i.e., the EU's antifraud office), to criminal investigations by the EPPO, a new EU judicial body.

The EPPO will be an indivisible, [11] supranational judicial body, headed by the European Public Prosecutor («EPP»), who will be assisted by his / her Deputies and staff.

One option would be to entrust an existing judicial body such as the CJEU with the task of interpreting the withdrawal agreement and settling disputes.

The administrator, a new insider and supervisor of the insolvent, should have the guts to decide whether any of the irregularities should be reported to the criminal judicial bodies, or be dealt with through civil and commercial procedures because no crime is constituted.

The French court decision was important in His lordship's reasoning because it evidenced the approach of a well respected foreign judicial body towards what is a specific English institution — barristers» chambers.

But are there advantages to resorting to ITLOS (or other standing judicial bodies) over arbitration?

REM: Our online REM Forum also includes comments that CREA should not negotiate at all, but instead should take this issue in front of an impartial judicial body and get a decision on this once and for all?

The highest judicial body is the Supreme Tribunal of Justice or Tribunal Supremo de Justicia, whose magistrates are elected by parliament for a single two - year term.

The appellate court, in a technological rarity, records and posts many of its proceedings — a practice that somehow manages to defy other judicial bodies as a public service.

Furthermore, one can not but rejoice at the thought that, universal jurisdiction being nowadays acknowledged in the case of international crimes, a person suspected of such offences may finally be brought before an international judicial body for a dispassionate consideration of his indictment by impartial, independent and disinterested judges coming, as it happens here, from all continents of the world.

It's what the multilateral system was designed to do — level the playing field, removing the case from a stacked negotiating forum where a powerful bully dominates and relying on the WTO's judicial body to dispassionately review one member's complaint against another.

The Court, of course, is not just a judicial body but also a political one.

The American democratic procedures that have shaped the practice of Presbyterian polity were developed for ongoing legislative and judicial bodies, not for a one - week - and - done meeting of persons unfamiliar with both the matters at hand and each other.

The Supreme Court agreed with the 2013 decision made by the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals.Was the 10th Circuit Court corrupt also, and for that matter is every court or judicial body that disagrees with your position corrupt?

The Anglo - American idea... means that the party who does not abide by certain specific decrees emanating from a judicial body is a contumacious person and may, as a rule, be held in contempt of court, fined and jailed... Now, this very concept of contempt simply does not belong to the world of ideas of a Latin lawyer.

On this hill met the chief council of Athens, which served as a forum to appraise various opinions being given the people and also as a judicial body.

In its landmark decision the judicial body upheld Uhuru Kenyatta's victory as declared by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) on 9 March.

It shall be exercised by the people through elections and other votes and through specific legislative, executive and judicial bodies.

If MPs want to pass judgment on one another rather than let the task be handed to the high court, it is a prerequisite they respect the judicial body that parliament establishes.

Mallam Shekarau who spoke to the press after his release from the custody of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Kano said he is ready to defend himself before any judicial body or court of law.

The University of Zurich and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, which together established the INI, are now appealing to the Federal Supreme Court, the country's highest judicial body.

The court in September declined to hear an appeal en banc, leaving demand response proponents with only one other judicial body to appeal to — the Supreme Court.

In this context, departments as well as administrative and judicial bodies are actively examining their options and looking for solutions.

Exercising the profession as a Supreme Court lawyer gives me the opportunity to confront with the highest judicial body, entrusted with the role of guaranteeing uniformity at national level in the interpretation and application of the rules that form the Italian legal system.

Jukka Snell looks at the legitimacy of the case - law on free movement law from a dual angle: he emphasises that the Court must, in a rather schizophrenic manner, comply with two sets of standards, as it is at the same time a judicial body and an EU institution (p. 110).

The defendant submitted, correctly in his lordship's opinion, that although there was a substantial overlap between judicial review claims and appeals on points of law, it did not follow that every judicial body with jurisdiction limited to points of law was required to apply judicial review principles in every case.

He is working on a PhD on the relation between the CJEU and other judicial bodies.

First, we should ask whether the Tribunal, as it has been described by Justice Slade to a parliamentary committee, appears to have the independence of a judicial body?

If brought to its logical conclusion, the Court's reasoning would not only outlaw the application of EU Law by any judicial body outside the European judicial hierarchy, but the application of any rules other than those of EU law in fields covered by EU Law.

In the following post, I briefly develop both aspects of this equation — pragmatism with regard to the scope of the CFSP versus principle with regard to the reach of EU constitutional principles into the CFSP — and I conclude with a brief reflection on the normative issue of whether the Court stays within its role as a judicial body, where I suggest the CJEU's approach fits squarely within its duty to say what the law is.

Exercising the profession as a Su - preme Court lawyer gives me the opportunity to confront with the highest judicial body, entrusted with the role of guaranteeing uniformity at national level in the interpretation and application of the rules that form the Italian legal system.

In international law, where there is no integrated judicial system and where every judicial or arbitral organ needs a specific constitutive instrument defining its jurisdiction, «the first obligation of the Court - as of any other judicial body - is to ascertain its own competence.»

An examination of the language of the Statute of the Administrative Tribunal has shown that the General Assembly intended to establish a judicial body.»

Stay of execution of the contradicting judgments until the executable judgment is determined under a decision to be issued by the Judicial Body in this regard.»