Sentences with phrase «through habeas»
But whether a being has the right to seek release from confinement through habeas corpus should not be treated as a simple either / or proposition, he said.
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«We must never cease», Churchill said, «to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of the English - speaking world and which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, and the English common law, find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence».
The Nonhuman Rights Project has responded to the amendment, stating, «This case is one of a trio of cases that the Nonhuman Rights Project has brought in an attempt to free chimpanzees imprisoned within the State of New York through an «Article 70 - Habeas Corpus» proceeding.
For one, it is the first time in nearly 50 years that the court has ordered a hearing based on a petition for habeas corpus filed directly with the Supreme Court, as opposed to petitions that have come up through the lower courts.
The statements taken by CSIS and DFAIT were obtained through participation in a regime which was known at the time to have refused detainees the right to challenge the legality of detention by way of habeas corpus.It was also known that Mr. Khadr was 16 years old at the time and that he had not had access to counsel or to any adult who had his best interests in mind.
Allen's past and present pro-bono work includes serving as a volunteer appellate lawyer for the Mercer Law School's Habeas Corpus Project and the Georgia Public Defender's Standards Council, as a volunteer lawyer for the National Center for Refugee and Immigrant Children and Miami - Dade Legal Aid's «Put Something Back Program,» and as a bar exam tutor through the Dade County Bar Association's Bar Passage Program.
The Court of Appeal has stated clearly that, where Charter damages are sought for an alleged illegal detention, they are to be sought through standalone Charter applications or by way of an action, and not as part of a habeas corpus application.