Sentences with phrase «upholding public order»

«The Turkish government's news media shutdown shows how the State of Emergency law is being used to deny the right to free speech beyond any legitimate aim of upholding public order,» Human Rights Watch said in a statement.

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In order to uphold California's tradition of innovation and our responsibility to the state's 6.2 million public school students, we must do better.

Mayor Bloomberg's brazen refusal to acknowledge a court order upholding the Occupy movement's right to protest reveals a dangerous contempt towards free assembly in public places, a cornerstone of a healthy democracy.

Although the Court upheld the publication ban in this case, the Court rightly noting several parts of the order are already in the public domain and may have been inappropriately subject to a publication ban.

The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld state laws that encroach on personal liberty (Jacobson v. Massachusetts) in order to maintain public order.

The Minister of Justice has a stake in upholding criminal convictions in order to preserve the integrity of the country's judicial institutions and to ensure public confidence that the government is capable of ensuring justice in society.

In addition, they are required, in any steps they take and agreements they make, to uphold human rights and freedoms and observe other public order rules.»

The conditions for making and upholding a non-derogating control order under PTA 2005, ss 2 (1)(a) and 3 (10) were that the secretary of state «(a) has reasonable grounds for suspecting that the individual is or has been involved in terrorism - related activity; and (b) considers it necessary, for purposes connected with protecting members of the public from a risk of terrorism, to make a control order imposing obligations on that individual».

36 Similarly, in order to protect personal security, public order and the administration of justice, the Manitoba Court of Appeal upheld the right of a judge to bar kirpans from the courtroom in R. v. Hothi et al. 37 While the court acknowledged that the kirpan was a religious symbol and not a weapon, it based its decision on the authority of a judge to maintain control of his or her courtroom.