Sentences with phrase «justice from our justice system»

Back into the dark days of 1970s and 1980s the Irish routinely received rough justice from our justice system, a point made by Paul May, who chaired the Birmingham Six campaign and has run countless others since then from Eddie Gilfoyle to Sam Hallam.

Not exact matches

«Secret arbitration takes away a woman's right to a trial by a jury of her peers and provides a dark alley for Uber to hide from the justice system, the media and public scrutiny,» according to the letter.
«Its report said the case could revive «accusations that the criminal justice system favoured those from the middle and upper classes.»
The case is the most important antitrust case since those that led to the breaking up of AT&T, completed in 1984, and the Department of Justice's attempt to block Microsoft from using its Windows operating system to monopolize software such as Web browsers on computers.
While the points made by these gentlemen are both valid and critically important, they fail to take note of four other dangerous subsidies: (1) the market perception that the Washington and Wall Street revolving door has rendered these firms immune from prosecution — even for repeated, illegal cartel behavior; (2) the ability to spend billions buying back their own stock, effectively propping up their own share price and bad behavior; (3) self - regulation with compromised bodies creating the market perception and reality of a competitive edge; and (4) Congress and the Supreme Court tolerating Wall Street running its own private justice system (mandatory arbitration) where corrupt acts are kept hidden from public view until they blow up into catastrophic events to the economy.
Moreover, in Europe, Italy's new Prime Minister, Enrico Letta, has taken a different tack than his French neighbors by acknowledging that sustainable growth does not come from government spending programs but rather from policies such as labor market flexibility, job training and simplification of Italy's archaic civil justice system.
Eugene Methvin, who has reported on the U.S. criminal justice system for more than forty years and who served (from 1983 - 1986) on the President's Commission on Organized Crime, has done extensive analysis on crime and punishment findings.
Justice Secretary Liz Truss said: «Part of building a fair justice system that works for everyone is drawing on the best talents from every background in BJustice Secretary Liz Truss said: «Part of building a fair justice system that works for everyone is drawing on the best talents from every background in Bjustice system that works for everyone is drawing on the best talents from every background in Britain.
Nationwide organization Showing Up for Racial Justice is seeking to mobilize churches across the country to separate themselves from the criminal justice Justice is seeking to mobilize churches across the country to separate themselves from the criminal justice justice system.
You intend to destroy her from within using our own justice systems and elected paid off officials who also have never served.
When this abuse is reported to the criminal justice system, it comes from parents or others.»
That, in fact, in many places, the operations of transnational capital — far from extending access to property, creating general prosperity, promoting democratic institutions, or advancing the causes of law and justice — destroy functioning local economies and communities, sustain and deepen poverty among those capital reduces to the commodity of cheap labor, exploit unjust labor systems, support despotisms, take advantage of conditions in regions too poor to impose or enforce environmental protections (for their ecosystems or their peoples), and are often complicit in the procedural abuse of persons who can hope for no legal redress?
In them we find clearly articulated such themes as the importance of the communidades de base («grass - roots «Christian groups); Jesus as the liberator from hunger, misery, oppression and ignorance; the refusal to separate Christian sanctification from «temporal» tasks; challenges to capitalism (as well as to Marxism); the theory of «dependency» on inhuman economic systems; the need for liberation from neocolonialism; the need for «conscienticization»; the need for the church to support the downtrodden; the correlation of peace and justice; and the reality of «institutionalized violence.»
Then and there I vowed to use whatever power that I had for good and against evil, to promote what is best in people, to work to free people from their self - imposed prisons, and to work against systems that pervert the promise of human happiness and justice (p. 179).
Systems and principles of justice are the servants and instruments of the spirit of brotherhood in so far as they extend the sense of obligation towards the other, (a) from an immediately felt obligation, prompted by obvious need, to a continued obligation expressed in fixed principles of mutual support; (b) from a simple relation of the self and one «other» to the complex relations of the self and the «others»; and (c) finally from the obligations... which the community defines from its more impartial perspective.5
«I don't think the statements from the United States has had any impact either on this case as this is all going through the Iranian justice system, which is based on the law and evidence.»
Man chose satan as their god and have had the chance to show what they could do without their creator and his ideas, principles and laws but it has not been pretty and as Jesus taught that satan is «The ruler of this world», «the god of this system» etc.but for «a little while longer» and the Creator will take his wisdom, justice, power and love and take over to show what was intended from the beginning.for scriptures (see 1 John 5:19, Rev. 12:9 - 12, Luke 22:31, Matt.25: 41, 1 Pet.5: 8,9, John 8:44,45) and so many others for those who care.
In this respect, the Islamic economy resembles all other systems that claim to be serving the human being and realizing his social aspirations, but it differs from them in the details of its conception of social justice.
This ruling from within their justice system is more meaningful.
The sense of justice and fairness, including the justice systems the humans set up, originates from God.
But I'm also struck by how differently our culture — the American justice system to be specific — operates from this biblical truth.
Justice is not an abstract concept, but the perspective from which to judge the total system and structure of political and social relationship - the perspective of the poor and the weak.
There is a deficiency of justice not only Vitamin A. Land, farmers and food systems must be liberated from the control of corporate greed, GMOs and toxic products to combat malnutrition, hunger and poverty» said Nazareno.
That's right, the gang from Law & Order are back and in the football justice system there are two separate, but equally important sides: The players who are drafted, and the teams who select them.
As it reels from one decision to the next, the NFL and its teams are finding out just how hard it is to come up with a consistent and coherent policy of punishment for players beyond the justice system
A program with a narrow perspective — from any faith — may not do justice to the complexities of world affairs in which people of different faiths and belief systems interact.
The criminal justice system is still «distant from what most reasonable people want», Tony Blair said today.
While repeated calls from academia and public health have failed to convince most politicians, the group hopes calls from within the criminal justice system will finally make them listen.
The intolerable outbreak of crime we saw on the streets of our cities this summer shined a light on our youth justice system and the underlying reasons why young people sometimes feel they have nothing to lose and a lot to gain from crime.
Despite recent awareness from justice systems of the importance of tackling sexual violence, the justice and social support needs of conflict and post-conflict survivors worldwide have not been addressed are poorly understood and the service responses are rarely carried out in a gendered or holistic manner Justice for survivors of sexual violence and torture is a long way off and yet its fulfilment is vital to their rejustice systems of the importance of tackling sexual violence, the justice and social support needs of conflict and post-conflict survivors worldwide have not been addressed are poorly understood and the service responses are rarely carried out in a gendered or holistic manner Justice for survivors of sexual violence and torture is a long way off and yet its fulfilment is vital to their rejustice and social support needs of conflict and post-conflict survivors worldwide have not been addressed are poorly understood and the service responses are rarely carried out in a gendered or holistic manner Justice for survivors of sexual violence and torture is a long way off and yet its fulfilment is vital to their reJustice for survivors of sexual violence and torture is a long way off and yet its fulfilment is vital to their recovery.
Or did these terrorists, who were mostly from Brussels and had been using Brussels as a base since before the Paris attacks, for many reasons, particularly disorganised security... justice system and intelligence services are split... six different police zones......
«I think the criminal justice system right now is dealing with the issue and let's see what comes from that.»
The Code of Conduct further provides in Rule 5 (B) that a judge may engage in «avocational activities», that is «activities to improve the law, the legal system, and the administration of justice if such avocational activities do not detract from the dignity of his office or interfere with the performance of his judicial duties».
Similarly to a trusted justice system, other requirements that are commonly present in «one person, one vote» systems are based around trusted institutions, for example excluding mentally unstable citizens from voting would require that the population generally and overwhelmingly trust the society's health system.
They worked with local Youth Offending Teams to deal with young offenders through the Youth Justice Systemfrom arrest to diversionary options or to charge.
Those who support raising the age when New Yorkers are treated as adults in the criminal justice system from 16 to 18 held a rally Tuesday at the Capitol.
Cuomo, saying there is a «crisis of confidence» in the criminal justice system, signed an executive order to have the state's attorney general take over from local district attorneys, anytime a unarmed civilian is killed in an encounter with police, and there are questions about what happened.
«From our experiences, we have an intimate knowledge and urgent concern about the fundamental problems plaguing New York's criminal justice system,» the letter, dated April 2, says.
«People feel that they are disconnected from the justice system and if this democracy has one institution that stabilizes society, it is the justice system,» the governor, a Democrat, continued.
Dissenting justice campaigners, legal aid lawyers and those who've witnessed the rot setting in (from swingeing legal aid cuts, curbs to judicial review, an interpreting service in freefall, probation chaos and threats to withdraw Britain from the Human Rights Act) will be highlighting the urgent need to halt the destruction of our justice system and abide by the principles of the medieval charter.
«One third of [solicitors] will go out of business and people coming from university will simply choose not to go into the criminal justice system because they won't be able to afford to».
The number of things done by government could be one measure (such as the number of tax returns or passport applications processed, or the number of prisoners in the criminal justice system) but how should we measure how well those functions are carried out, and how should we separate the effects of government reforms from those of technological and societal changes?
This process is hidden behind an opaque prison system and misleading statements from the Ministry of Justice (MoJ).
De Blasio countered by saying that Albany can help speed things up by enacting its own criminal justice reforms and removing its own parolees from the city's system.
With figures from the British Crime Survey showing that twice as many people believe the criminal justice system is fair to those accused of committing a crime (80 %) than meets the needs of a victim of crime (36 %), there is a clear need to ensure the rights of victims are protected.
How do they compare to costs to society of prohibition of a particular substance, in terms of law enforcement, and opportunity costs from loss of otherwise productive members of society to our criminal justice system, either through incarceration or effects of having a conviction on their record?
«Having seen the justice system from multiple vantage points he knows firsthand the importance of getting things right.»
«Congressman Ellison recognizes that progressive politics matter at the most local of levels: to families seeking a job that pays the bills, to kids from low - income families hoping to go to college, and to parents worried about whether their kids of color will be treated fairly by the criminal justice system.
«ICE's unfettered presence in local courts undermines our legal system and deters immigrants and other New Yorkers from seeking justice.
«Our justice system should not be compromised by xenophobic policies coming from the White House.
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