Sentences with phrase «reduced judicial powers»

And «If ostensible democratic societies are to persist with judicial review, then a variety of steps can be taken — reduced judicial powers, specialized constitutional courts, responsive appointment procedures, legislative overrides, greater judicial accountability, periodic constituent assembles, etc. — to de-sacralize and defrost the constitutional order.

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According to NBCW, the pope's emphasis on mercy in the document, «The Gentle Judge, our Lord Jesus, the Shepherd of Souls», is central to the new procedures which help reduce the time taken to process a case, and assist diocesan bishops to use their judicial power for the good of those in their care.

The Ohio Senate yesterday approved a plan (SJR 1) to create a Public Office Compensation Commission with the power to reduce judicial salaries mid-term in cases of fiscal emergency, a departure from a 2014 proposal which would have allowed them to be diminished for any reason.

Both bills, in different ways and to different extents, would reduce mandatory minimums and expand judicial discretion, thus reducing unnecessarily harsh sentences and lessening unchecked prosecutorial power.

It is a constitutional principle that can, as the Supreme Court recognized in Reference re Secession of Quebec, [1998] 2 SCR 217, result in «substantive limitations upon government action» — including, relevantly to us here, in government action aiming at reducing the courts» powers of judicial review.