"[Foreigners] Tribunals are the most important tribunals in the country," said the older of the former members, his voice rising in anger at the idea of bureaucrats deciding foreigners' cases.
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At least 222 of those were referred to military tribunals.
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In any case, most Kosovars have lost interest in international tribunals.
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Tribunals should begin while the crimes and the evidence are fresh.
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READ: Inside India's sham tribunals that could strip millions of citizenship.
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Contrast that with the pathetic record of military tribunals at Guantánamo.
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A VICE News analysis of 515 orders issued by four of Kamrup's five tribunals and interviews with attendees of those tribunals, as well as courts in nine other districts, offers a window into what awaits them.
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It noted that in similar circumstances in the past, different mechanisms had been used, including the ICC, ad hoc tribunals established by the United Nations, and hybrid or domestic tribunals established with the support of intergovernmental organizations.
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States tribunals should not be afraid to strike out on their own.
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Military tribunals have been used to put eight suspected terrorists on trial.
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In those tribunals, nearly nine out of 10 cases were against Muslims.
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The Foreigners Tribunals are currently processing the people affected by those efforts.
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The military has so far convicted 104 civilians in the secret tribunals.
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The work is done by tribunals that are set up as needed.
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This evidence will be used to build cases in war crimes tribunals.
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Forced to relent, Obama reverted to Bush's fix: military tribunals at Guantánamo.
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The tribunals' decisions are not made public, so the reasons are not known.
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Brian Mizer, who in the past has represented multiple detainees at the tribunals.
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These suits go before foreign tribunals, and their results ultimately dictate U.S. laws.
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It has turned instead to legal counter-attacks, making forlorn appeals to international tribunals.
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Juncker stressed the EU would not accept "private tribunals" ruling between business and states.
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The global tribunals that multinationals use to bypass national courts have come under attack.
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Women turn to sharia tribunals because the present situation leaves them with little choice.
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International lawyers expect rich-world parties to be wary of the tribunals, for now.
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At the moment, an obsession with power and order is hobbling the new tribunals.
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It used to be that only serving and retired judges presided over the tribunals.
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In such cases, the court held that EU law precludes arbitration before international tribunals.
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Now, Mr. Duque has requested an overhaul of the tribunals, calling them too lenient.
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The arguments have played out in international trade tribunals, with each side trading victories.
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"There is a perception that the tribunals are like tilting at windmills," he said.
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It wants to extend the NRC and Foreigners' Tribunals to the rest of the country.
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In fact, the nationality of five-member NAFTA tribunals generally alternates with each new dispute.
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He said that his client would consider whether to try to appeal to international tribunals.
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The group was active until 1999, and the war tribunals started in 83 are ongoing.
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The group was active until 1999, and the war tribunals started in 2009 are ongoing.
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If not, they face the tribunals — and the possibility of losing their liberty and country.
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Republicans insist Guantánamo's military commissions offer tough justice, but those tribunals have been largely dysfunctional.
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It's one of eight provincial tribunals that serve to provide balanced resolutions to civil disputes.
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National-security professionals prefer civilian courts, which have convicted numerous terrorists, to Guantánamo's dysfunctional tribunals.
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Corrupt Guatemalan politicians try to keep the media in their pockets and neuter independent tribunals.
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Later that year, Khan&aposs government introduced special "tribunals" to hear cases against the media.
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Opposition leaders said 200 of those were being processed by military tribunals in Carabobo state.
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He also introduced commercial tribunals, a public health office, telegraph offices, canals and cotton factories.
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He challenged the rules in local and international tribunals, arguing they violated his human rights.
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NAFTA also contains two different kinds of dispute mechanism tribunals that are in the mix.
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The suspicion that war-crimes tribunals are an alien imposition also afflicts the new Kosovo court.
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And he has refused to begin the process of appointing new judges to its trade tribunals.
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Reuters reviewed copies of the appraisal sheets of judges in 22016 of Assam's roughly 100 tribunals.
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Decisions made by those presiding over Kamrup's tribunals — who are not actual judges — were deeply inconsistent.
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But the border police and tribunals, unlike other Indian courts, don't share complaints with the accused.
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For one thing, it would cap awards for unfair dismissal, which are made by labour tribunals.
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In 2016, 160 asylum cases came to the federal courts after being rejected by refugee tribunals.
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The federal court handles only a small portion of all applications rejected by the refugee tribunals.
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The report said tribunals should not consider previous record fines as a benchmark for future penalties.
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Third, and perhaps most important, the government has demonstrated no compelling need for the Guantánamo tribunals.
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This month, Nestor Reverol, the interior minister, said on Twitter that the tribunals would be used.
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There are other concerns accused students' advocates have about campus tribunals, but policy tweaks will have little impact on how tribunals are conducted as long as the people overseeing them remain in place, said attorney Andrew Miltenberg, who frequently represents college students accused of sexual assault.
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One of the early challenges of the post-truce era will be the establishment of special tribunals.
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The influx has strained Canada's refugee system, worsening backlogs in refugee tribunals and sending aid agencies scrambling.
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The international tribunals set up after those conflicts broke new ground in the prosecution of sex crimes.
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In 2013 the government introduced hefty fees at employment tribunals, which explains the big drop in applications.
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Finally, Trump said that newly captured foreign terrorists would be tried in military tribunals at Guantanamo Bay.
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We worked with an Assam ethnicities expert to confirm data on Muslims and Hindus in the tribunals.
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They should not be processed in our criminal justice system they should be processed by military tribunals.
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Perched on a plateau above the city of Luxembourg, the court is composed of two main tribunals.
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Another contentious U.S. proposal is to repatriate dispute resolution to the domestic legal system from international tribunals.
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The asylum seekers will make their cases before Canada's refugee tribunals, which rejected 5,000 cases last year.
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He said he would limit the chances of pedophile priests to appeal their convictions by church tribunals.
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The tribunal's most significant legacy was the appearance of "people's tribunals" long after the Vietnam War ended.
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Are college administrative tribunals capable of policing this issue or should it be handled by law enforcement?
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Now Mr. Duque is pushing to overhaul the tribunals so that former rebels could face harsher punishment.
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Both tribunals prepared the ground for the permanent International Criminal Court, which Mr. Bassiouni also helped shape.
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Settling this question would go a long way toward settling the structural legitimacy of the Guantánamo tribunals.
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Because military occupation presupposes the absence of a functioning, civilian government, military tribunals are the only option.
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The Fifth Amendment protection against double jeopardy could be ignored because campus tribunals aren't courts of law.
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Employment tribunals can also be involved in determining a worker's employment status — sometimes overturning an earlier HMRC classification.
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But their role is only to advise the tribunals and to mediate should parties prefer to avoid litigation.
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We requested judgements issued in the last six months of 2018 from all of Assam's 100 Foreigners Tribunals.
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Many of the interrogation practices that took place under the discretion of military tribunals are considered war crimes.
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A provision allowing multinational corporations to challenge regulations and court rulings before special tribunals is drawing intense opposition.
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For centuries, the Church has dealt with misconduct by priests internally by enforcing canon law through canonical tribunals.
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Mona Eltahawy For the past three Tuesdays, Egypt has hanged civilians sentenced to death by military tribunals: Jan.
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The military tribunals originally barred public mention of what happened at the prisons, including the topic of torture.
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Supreme Court opinions have occasionally taken account of the decisions of foreign and international tribunals in constitutional cases.
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The deal established the so-called Special Jurisdiction for Peace — tribunals to hear accounts of crimes and abuses.
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And it must eliminate USMCA's special tribunals and forums for corporate polluters to challenge hard-won climate protections.
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Perhaps to justify the use of those military tribunals, officials say they are now facing an "armed insurrection".
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There are precedents in the tribunals for Sierra Leone, Lebanon and Cambodia to help guide such an initiative.
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The report also called for urgent action to make it easier for employees to bring cases to tribunals.
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When someone is wrongly accused The disparity is what concerns critics of the so-called "campus tribunals," including Ehrhart.
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It also prohibits employer interference in union activities and requires Mexico to establish independent tribunals to adjudicate labor disputes.
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They are generally subject to arbitration by neutral tribunals and have typically taken seven years or more to negotiate.
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But anti-colonialism may not be the only motive for dumping the British court, which often overrules regional tribunals.
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He said the judges relied on documents submitted as proof of citizenship and the tribunals' decisions could be appealed.
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Across all four tribunals, more than three-quarters of the orders were delivered in the absence of a defendant.
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But about two dozen lawyers and nearly 100 people who've been through tribunals said this initial inquiry wasn't done.
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A VICE News and Type Investigations probe has revealed the tribunals to be rife with bias, inconsistency, and error.
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Many whose citizenship is under scrutiny are poor and illiterate, unprepared to deal with the tribunals' opaque legal process.
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Usually war crimes are investigated by international tribunals such as the International Criminal Court (ICC), rather than national courts.
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Non-profit organization Sherpa brought the case to French tribunals on behalf of 14 former Syrian employees at Lafarge.
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Many of these lawyers rotate between serving on tribunals that decide cases and attacking governments on behalf of corporations.
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These tribunals function in many ways like normal courts, with judges hearing arguments from two sides of opposing counsel.
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The "beyond a reasonable doubt" evidentiary standard usually applies to criminal charges — and college tribunals are not criminal courts.
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In contrast to the five men awaiting military tribunals at Guantánamo Bay on charges that they plotted the Sept.
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After the war, Allied tribunals that scrutinized Georg Berger's past concluded that he was both Nazi collaborator and victim.
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Canada's refugee tribunals have historically been leery of claims made by people who come through its wealthy southern neighbor.
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If the tribunals are perceived as incompetent or too lenient, the prospect of a lasting peace will be in jeopardy.
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The goal is to cap unfair dismissal compensation awards and cut the time taken to reach verdicts in labor tribunals.
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Whatever policy-makers laid down, ultra-zealous Muslim groups might in any case try forming their own semi-secret tribunals.
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But as Philip Rubens of Teacher Stern, a law firm in London, points out, such tribunals create no binding precedent.
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The number of physical hearings in civil and family courts and tribunals should fall from 2.6m to 1m a year.
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El Khomri backed down on capping the financial settlements that labor tribunals can impose on employers for breach of obligations.
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Almost $28503 million in taxpayer funds have been paid to corporations successfully attacking environmental and health safeguards in NAFTA tribunals.
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More than 500 Batista-era officials were brought before courts-martial and special tribunals, summarily convicted and shot to death.
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Those excluded have 120 days to prove their citizenship at hundreds of regional quasi-judicial bodies known as foreigners' tribunals.
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A French judge experienced in war-crimes tribunals, Catherine Marchi-Uhel, was named its head and began work on Tuesday.
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"This information will be made available to support future prosecutions before regional or national courts and tribunals," Mr. Clapham said.
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In op-eds and in congressional hearings, he spoke in favor of military tribunals, the Patriot Act, and sweeping surveillance.
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That said, the courts maintain their authority to protect the legal rights of persons and institutions ensnared in kangaroo tribunals.
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Francis talked about powerful committees to safeguard children, tribunals to try bishops and a "zero tolerance" policy for offending priests.
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He added that CETA did not infringe the principle of equal treatment and that dispute settlement tribunals had procedural safeguards.
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In Assam, excluded people were given 120 days to prove their citizenship at quasi-judicial bodies known as Foreigners Tribunals.
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Tribunals can limit some rights, such as freedom of speech and religion, to enforce others, like protecting transgender people from discrimination.
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He thinks that the Foreigners' Tribunals may not act very quickly, taking perhaps 20 years to sort through their case load.
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Most environmental crimes in Chile are currently handled by civil or environmental tribunals, or through out-of-court settlements with regulators.
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The system of using tribunals to settle such disputes became a focal point of mass demonstrations against the "TTIP" EU-U.
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In comparison, military tribunals have only convicted eight, half of which were overturned and most of which resulted in lighter sentences.
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"Tribunals in Burundi today are not impartial... There is a systematic practice of torture...There are extra-judicial executions," he added.
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But that is different from arguing that American citizens should also be tried in tribunals, which afford fewer rights to defendants.
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Russell's hope was that his tribunals would build momentum toward a people-driven, international peace movement that did more than protest.
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American leaders have noted for years that no country has done more to finance peacekeeping missions and international war crimes tribunals.
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Whether it will upend the trial or be a mere footnote in the tribunals will likely not be known for years.
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The TPP establishes secret tribunals where corporations — corporations — can sue governments for laws or policies which may endanger potential future profits.
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That system has successfully handled many terrorism cases, while the military tribunals at Guantánamo Bay have suffered a decade of setbacks.
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But despite the American bishops' disinclination to engage with the process, Mr. Saunders's protest seems to indicate that the matter of ecclesiastical sanction may be better addressed in national church tribunals rather than Vatican tribunals, so as to take into account both current law and perhaps also to add to the speed and the transparency of the process.
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From the 85033s, when the United States became the first country to issue instructions to its soldiers on the laws of war, through adoption of the Hague and Geneva conventions, to establishment of the Nuremberg and Tokyo tribunals and, 50 years later, of the Yugoslavia and Rwanda tribunals, we have been a world leader in combating impunity.
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CrowdJustice is also used to raise cash for humdrum cases in more lowly courts and tribunals, such as immigration and employment disputes.
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Any legitimisation of sharia councils will lead to the set-up of tribunals for Hindu, Sikh, and perhaps even other Christian denominations.
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I&aposve been a critic of the tribunals because I think they&aposve been another failure -- very few trials have actually occurred.
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Around 245,000 cases are pending at the tribunals, and scores more are likely to be added after the final list is published.
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"International Tribunals are also urged to consider the implications of their decisions and the impact on development and poverty alleviation," it said.
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At a recent Supreme Court hearing challenging the military tribunals, Pakistan's chief justice questioned whether convicts should be allowed basic legal rights.
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Rights group Penal Forum has said that 338 people have faced proceedings in military tribunals in recent days, with 175 still detained.
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Defense lawyers argued that the charge is nevertheless illegitimate because the Constitution did not empower Congress to make it available to tribunals.
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This is less a book about the case and more a book about trials, tribunals, struggles, difficulties, and overcoming them and surviving.
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Courts are public tribunals, and while divorces are sealed and no one except tabloid journalists really seem to object, there are leaks.
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While McCarrick's case began and ended in Church tribunals, the Vatican investigation of Pell unusually follows a conviction in a civil court.
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Companies increasingly are taking on foreign governments in the ICSID and other tribunals, including the International Chamber of Commerce and the United Nations.
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While the individual tribunals within the ICC have handed out verdicts for sex crimes, this was a first for the court at large.
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But have the Hague and Arusha tribunals, and the International Criminal Court that has now superseded them, served an even more important purpose?
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The system of tribunals to settle disputes between foreign investors and states became a focal point of protests against the planned EU-U.
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Santanu Bharali, legal adviser to Assam's chief minister, dismissed criticism that the tribunals were biased or had targets to declare people as foreigners.
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More than 71% of women in Kamrup's tribunals were declared foreigners; a headman not having sufficient record-keeping was often the reason given.
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Others argue it would be too hard to convict potentially dangerous suspects because much of the evidence gathered in military tribunals is tainted.
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International human rights organizations have criticized the tribunals as falling far short of proper due process, but the trials appear popular within Bangladesh.
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From now on all citizens arrested for "instigation to rebel" will be judged in military tribunals, a top military official said on Sunday.
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Tribunals dealing with Lebanon, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and the former Yugoslavia have all handed down fines and prison sentences for contempt of court.
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It called for changes responding to criticisms that the tribunals favor corporations and interfere with nations' efforts to protect public health and safety.
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Human rights activists have criticized conditions at the centers, and lawyers and activists point to problems with the functioning of the foreigners' tribunals.
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While the U.S. has backed away from prosecuting torture, Guatemala has appointed special prosecutors and high-risk tribunals to try human rights cases.
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Special tribunals are to be established to settle war-crimes cases, and farmers are to be given incentives to stop growing coca leaf.
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This is similar to China's militarization of man-made islands in the South China Sea, which was in direct defiance of international tribunals.
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She noted there are concerns that the Foreigners' Tribunals may well go easier on Hindus than on Muslims who appeal their citizenship determination.
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It said it had done the utmost to cooperate with Brazilian tribunals, but it did not possess the information the court was requesting.
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War tribunals are likely to come under great scrutiny and pressure by those Colombians who demand tougher sanctions and jail time for FARC rebels.
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Tribunals for Yugoslavia, Rwanda and Sierra Leone, whose experience led to the creation of the ICC's permanent court, all took time to bear fruit.
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Some commanders will be prosecuted in special tribunals for war crimes, but the majority of fighters will receive amnesty and government support to reintegrate.
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In addition, the individuals inside Burmese institutions and civil society organizations who orchestrated this genocide must be fired and held accountable before international tribunals.
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But radio broadcasts disseminated this language to radical Hutus and, in the opinions of human rights tribunals and experts like Donohue, spawned mass violence.
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The idea was modeled after the Nuremberg trials and the ad hoc tribunals for the Yugoslavia conflicts of the 220006s and the Rwandan genocide.
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He also said that even if Mr. Obama had gotten rid of indefinite detention or military tribunals, Mr. Trump could have brought them back.
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More recent international criminal tribunals have shed some of those pejorative labels, but they have struggled mightily to obtain credible evidence supporting their convictions.
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Some of these cases may ultimately make their way to international tribunals like the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Mr. Torres Landa said.
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People's courts, called "Russell Tribunals," have investigated Third World dictatorships, the 1973 Chilean coup, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the war in East Ukraine.
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They would include bilateral loans from Russia and China, debt deals subject to corruption investigations, and debt subject to disputes in international arbitration tribunals.
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"A hearing will take place today in Court 8 Parliament House at 12 noon," said a spokeswoman for the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service.
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He also said the government was considering amending some rules, including strengthening the debt recovery tribunals, to help banks recover bad loans more quickly.
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But the tribunals ended up being more important than he expected after Congress forced the administration to abandon its plan to move the Sept.
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Those excluded from India's register will have 120 days to prove their citizenship at hundreds of regional quasi-judicial bodies known as foreigners' tribunals.
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The new deal limits the work of the special tribunals to 10 years and requires any investigations be opened within the first two years.
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First, he argues, it brings what should be an intensely personal sphere into the world of bureaucracies and tribunals, causing unnecessary suffering for the dying.
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The accords says a guilty verdict will lead to "restricted liberty" but it leaves it up to the tribunals to define what that will mean.
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The tribunals could one day matter a lot, should they be used to export a vision of international law that reflects that same, bleak worldview.
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Belgium had asked the court to give its view on that mechanism, under which tribunals with publicly appointed judges resolve disputes brought by foreign companies.
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Tribunals can be expensive to run and use and would take years to legislate given that parliament is clogged up by Brexit, the report said.
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Data gathered from several tribunals, and interviews with nearly 100 people who've faced the courts, illustrate a biased process barely resembling India's traditional legal system.
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The Biswases are among tens of thousands of people who have been declared illegal in India's Foreigners Tribunals, opaque courts that are unique to Assam.
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Among those is an opportunity for borrowers to get a fair hearing before any matters are admitted to tribunals empowered to rule on these cases.
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But then it became Pizzagate [a secret pedophile conspiracy] and the pedophilia thing and the tribunals and who was going to be hung for treason.
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A ruling against the government could have limited its ability to prosecute people via special military tribunals for offenses not internationally recognized as war crimes.
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Most people considered by human rights groups to be political prisoners in Iran are charged with security offences, which are often subject to secret tribunals.
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U.N. member states are required to pay assessed contributions to the world body's regular and peacekeeping budgets, as well as a budget for international tribunals.
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Many Republicans and the tobacco industry object that the tobacco companies would be barred from using international trade tribunals to sue countries that restrict smoking.
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Iranian Judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili told Reuters that a number of suspects were arrested in the past year and face potential executions in military tribunals.
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As James Madison urged, "independent tribunals of justice" would serve as an "impenetrable bulwark against every assumption of power in the legislative or executive" branches.
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However, a party set up by the FARC leadership - some of whom will likely face war crimes tribunals - received negligible votes in March's legislative elections.
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OATH was created in 1979 to provide an independent alternative to internal agency tribunals that tried their own cases and were often criticized as biased.
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Immigration courts are not the only tribunals formally separate from the judiciary — the tax and bankruptcy courts, for example, are known as Article I courts.
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The law requires prosecutors to obtain permission from "political or military leadership" and expands jurisdiction of military tribunals to handle criminal cases concerning service members.
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Now, the president is turning to military courts to tighten his grip further, prosecuting demonstrators and other civilians in tribunals that the government closely controls.
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Completed in August, this National Citizens Register excluded some 1.9m inhabitants as "non-Indians", who must submit to special tribunals to appeal against their status.
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A proper trade agreement should eliminate sweetheart provisions that allow corporations to sue governments in secretive tribunals over regulations that protect workers and the environment.
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Panzi Foundation has teams of lawyers, lawyers who not only help these victims prepare their cases but also accompany the victims to courts and tribunals.
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Extrajudicial tribunals have been around for years — as the TransCanada case suggests – and they haven't yielded the corporate lawlessness that critics have predicted, said Gerwin.
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" What Hamilton called "the duty of the judicial tribunals … to guard the Constitution and the rights of individuals" was echoed by James Madison, regarded as the father of the Constitution, in addressing the House of Representatives in 85033: "Independent tribunals of justice will consider themselves … guardians of these rights; they will be an impenetrable bulwark against every assumption of power in the legislative or executive.
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After that, those left off the list will have to wait for Foreigners' Tribunals, special parallel courts with no right of appeal, to hear their cases.
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In 215, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Model Protection Against Sexual Harassment Bill ordered the creation of gender violence tribunals in its member states, pioneering the model.
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And Uber lost case after case in employment tribunals around the world, which forced it to stop classifying its workers as independent contractors in some countries.
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But the agency that runs courts and tribunals in England and Wales plans to create what could be the world's most digitised justice system by 2023.
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In May, after the government of India approved 21 more Foreigners Tribunals, Assam decided to appoint retired civil service employees with some judicial experience as members.
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It's unclear how many more people will be sent to the tribunals in the coming months, but Assam seems to be preparing for a major crackdown.
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Some of the dozens of people we spoke to who had been declared foreigners in Kamrup's Foreigners Tribunals were challenging the order in the High Court.
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The maximum sentence the tribunals can hand out is eight years and those convicted will avoid traditional jails, instead doing reparations work like removing land mines.
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He further ordered the convening of tribunals — subsequently labeled "death commissions" — throughout Iran to re-try the thousands of political prisoners in detention at the time.
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The administration, however, countered that the trade agreement actually reformed the so-called Investor-State Dispute Settlement tribunals, which are a longstanding feature of trade policy.
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Judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili said an unspecified number of suspects, arrested less than a year ago, faced possible death sentences in military tribunals, state television reported.
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His attacks on the Justice Department, military tribunals, the special counsel, attorneys general and federal prosecutors smack of strongman tactics that run counter to American tradition.
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Putting further stress on the peace deal, two former FARC leaders, including the lead peace negotiator, Iván Márquez, last month refused to appear before the tribunals.
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"Military victory must be supplemented by chasing down those who executed the soldiers and prosecuting them before international and Arabic tribunals," Mr. Sleiman said on Twitter.
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Human rights groups say thousands of other Venezuelans have been arrested after taking part in street protests, with many being sent to military tribunals for prosecution.
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He also minimised what two international tribunals found to be genocide: the 1995 murder by Bosnian Serbs of some 8,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica.
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In a world where the civilized path to retribution — cops, courts, campus tribunals — seems to often fail victims, vigilante justice reigns again in TV and film.
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The facility has been criticized for its grim conditions, and the U.S. policy of trying detainees, if at all, before military tribunals instead of criminal courts.
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"Purges of supreme courts or constitutional tribunals have been a common affair in Latin America, where many presidents have little tolerance for dissent," Pérez-Liñán notes.
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Such mistakes can lead to loss of citizenship, said Aman Wadud, a lawyer who has handled dozens of cases of illegal immigration at Assam's foreigner tribunals.
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Ary resigned last year as the convening authority for U.S. military commissions, a job that put him in charge of operations at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, tribunals.
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Bharara had pushed for trials in civilian courts while Sessions has criticized that approach and vouched for the ongoing value of trying foreign defendants before military tribunals.
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Access to employment tribunals, the main mechanism for enforcing individual employment rights, has been restricted since 2013, when charges of up to £1,200 were introduced for claimants.
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Yet Ms Adams and Mr Prassl argue that the steepness of the fees makes them a "disproportionate restriction on litigants' right of access to the employment tribunals".
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International tribunals have generally considered gender-based violence in the context of rape and other sexual crimes, not in terms of a broad regime regulating gender expression.
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Roughly 60% of those found not to be citizens at the 100 "foreigners' tribunals" the state government is setting up were not even present for the proceedings.
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A problem for such tribunals is the difficulty of proving criminal responsibility for generals and political leaders who gave vague or verbal orders which they now deny.
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For instance, autocratic Chinese business bosses, notably from state-owned enterprises, loathe being cross-examined in foreign commercial courts or arbitration tribunals, and often do badly there.
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An investigation into Assam's Foreigners Tribunals reveals an ominous glimpse of what awaits the masses left off the citizens register who will soon be summoned to trial.
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Brussels has rejected the use of traditional "investor state-dispute settlement" tribunals, criticised by campaign groups as a tool for multinationals to undermine environmental and labour standards.
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The tribunals for civilians were established on a temporary, two-year basis after the killing of more than 150 people at a school in Peshawar in 2014.
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Politicians across the political spectrum have questioned the viability of war crimes tribunals at a time when the country's judicial institutions are overwhelmed by endemic gang violence.
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"The administration of justice is not the same in China and the way that they collect evidence would not be acceptable in North American tribunals," he said.
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Italy's courts have a backlog of eight million cases – 4.5 million in the civil system and 3.5 million in the penal tribunals, according to the Justice Ministry.
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"Time and time again, federal courts have proven to be more efficient and more effective than military tribunals," said Nicholas J. Lewin, a former counterterrorism federal prosecutor.
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Yet those who don't make the register have 120 days to appeal at what have ironically been called Foreigner Tribunals, set up to assess their citizenship status.
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Judge Akay's jailing was condemned on Thursday by Judge Theodor Meron, the president of the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals, which is overseen by the United Nations.
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Other potential claimants include ConocoPhillips, which has been awarded over $10 billion by international tribunals for its Venezuelan projects expropriated by Mr. Chávez, who died in 2013.
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In Venezuela, President Nicolás Maduro has turned to the military to tighten his grip on power, prosecuting demonstrators and other civilians in tribunals controlled by the government.
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Rowling's use of the hashtag #IStandWithMaya refers to Maya Forstater, a U.K. tax expert who just lost an employment discrimination case with the Employment Tribunals in London.
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The United States has long complained that the tribunals that settle trade disputes among the three countries are stacked against U.S. interests, and it could seek changes.
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At the same time, the witch hunters, the clerical and secular authorities presiding over inquisitions and tribunals tasked with identifying and eliminating witchcraft practitioners, were overwhelmingly male.
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For too long, the American people were told that mammoth multinational trade deals, unaccountable international tribunals and powerful global bureaucracies were the best way to promote their success.
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Leaders of the FARC, now a political party, will be required to testify to the tribunals, recounting their part in killings, sexual violence, kidnappings, bombings and other crimes.
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For example, employment tribunals have been telling bosses they must, within reason, respect the religious needs of their staff in respect, say, of dress, diet and days off.
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To finish off remaining trials such as that of Messrs Stanisic and Simatovic, the UN chartered a follow-up court, the discouragingly named Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals.
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A few remaining appeals and retrials will become the responsibility of the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals, which performs the same role with the now-closed Rwandan tribunal.
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The campus tribunals that colleges have created to meet these federal obligations often violate the due-process rights of the accused to receive equal treatment under the law.
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Other special war crimes or genocide tribunals, such as those in former Yugoslavia, Rwanda and Cambodia, were only created for the specific areas where those crimes took place.
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The appeals hearing is being held at the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (MICT), which is handling outstanding U.N. war crimes cases for the Balkans and Rwanda.
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While it wasn't possible to discern exactly how many people were Bengali speakers, every person VICE News found who had faced the tribunals was from that ethnic group.
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Kickl said it would be cheaper and more efficient to organize trials in the Middle East at special tribunals rather than hold individual trials in various European countries.
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Burke said that among the options discussed was to decentralize procedures by setting up regional tribunals that would hear cases under the auspices and guidance of the CDF.
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The military tribunals were established after the massacre in December, 22014, by Islamist militants of 134 students at an army-run school in the northwestern city of Peshawar.
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The Administrative Tribunals targeted by the working group are usually the first place a legal appeal is filed and it can take two years to hear a case.
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For too long, the American people were told that mammoth multinational trade deals, unaccountable international tribunals, and powerful global bureaucracies were the best way to promote their success.
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"The administration of justice is not the same in China and the way that they collect evidence would not be acceptable in North American tribunals," says Saint-Jacques.
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GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — For years, an expert legal team defended one of the most high-profile accused terrorists in a death penalty case at the military tribunals here.
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Proponents saw the tribunals as a means for meting out swift justice to terrorists, while human rights advocates feared that they would run roughshod over fair-trial protections.
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Last year, both Mr. Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who have been outspoken supporters of using Guantánamo in general, publicly disparaged the tribunals system as too slow.
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The Turkish narrative of denial has hinged on the argument that the original documents from postwar military tribunals that convicted the genocide's planners were nowhere to be found.
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The American sanctions may prompt other countries to follow suit, or increase pressure for Sri Lanka to pursue its own tribunals, however flawed they may be, observers said.
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For too long the American people were told that mammoth, multinational trade deals, unaccountable international tribunals and powerful global bureaucracies were the best way to promote their success.
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For too long the American people were told that mammoth, multinational trade deals, unaccountable international tribunals, and powerful global bureaucracies were the best way to promote their success.
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The pair of cases that reached the court this week could determine the future of military tribunals set up in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
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The context of the case is more than 25 years of tension between the Justice Department and state tribunals seeking to require federal prosecutors to follow their ethics rules.
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MALCOLM HARKERSeattle The scales of justice Fees for employment tribunals are not the only barrier to enforcing employment rights in Britain ("Justice in an age of austerity", April 1st).
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"In the end, I believe the trial was essentially fair, considering that the accused refused to participate," said Thierry Cruvellier, an author of books and articles about international tribunals.
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Richard Goldstone is a retired Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and a former Chief Prosecutor of the UN International Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.
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"If they come to the tribunal and are declared foreigner, from that moment they lose all their rights as Indians," said a policeman stationed in one of the tribunals.
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Saint-Jacques, who leaves his post in October, said he could see a future where an extradition agreement was in place but China "will have to satisfy our tribunals".
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All the while, the United States continued to work with the ICC and other tribunals to address our concerns and to refine and improve the framework for international justice.
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The U.N. Mechanism for the International Criminal Tribunals said in a ruling on Tuesday that as a U.N. judge, Akay enjoyed diplomatic immunity and his imprisonment violated judicial independence.
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"The TPP and TTIP would more than double the number of fossil fuel corporations that could follow TransCanada's example and challenge U.S. policies in private tribunals," the letter said.
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But Canadian refugee tribunals are wary of "asylum-shopping" and look askance at people coming from one of the world's richest countries to file claims, the refugee lawyers said.
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In one email exchange, Kavanaugh was asked to participate in congressional hearing preparation for the attorney general covering many issues including attorney-client privilege, military tribunals and racial profiling.
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The Nuremberg and Tokyo tribunals, though successful in terms of convictions, were sharply criticized for imposing victors' justice and convicting defendants on the basis of ex post facto lawmaking.
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Despite a 2014 change to the military code that allows these crimes to be investigated by civilian courts rather than military tribunals, in practice such violations are rarely punished.
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At the same time, the Guantánamo tribunals — which had started slowly, after the Supreme Court struck down an earlier version in the Bush years — have repeatedly plunged into chaos.
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As further evidence of the system's dysfunction, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis fired the top official overseeing the tribunals, Harvey Rishikof, as well as his chief of staff on Monday.
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But it is also important to recognize that the folly of the campus rape tribunals is not just an extremism isolated in the peculiar hothouse of the liberal academy.
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Then this past week, Vladimir Padrino, Mr. Maduro's defense minister, told a Spanish news service that he planned to take any protester who attacked National Guardsmen to the tribunals.
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But that also has to do with the fact that Gambia's minister of justice is a former war crimes prosecutor at the ad hoc international tribunals in the Hague.
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New cases stemming from the genocide are expected to be heard by Rwandan courts or a separate tribunal - the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals - backed by the United Nations.
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The President had argued in a speech that closing Guantánamo would restore the rule of law, and Clinton said that relying on military tribunals would badly undercut that claim.
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"Ministers must not intervene, or appear to intervene, with tribunals on any matter requiring a decision in their quasi-judicial capacity, except as permitted by statute," the rules read.
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But although he is told there is a case, no case number is cited, so he has no idea which out of some 100 Foreigners' Tribunals he should appear before.
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"It was concluded that Mr Tolimir died of natural causes," the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals said in a statement on Friday after an autopsy carried out by Dutch authorities.
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Throughout our nation's history, Congress has created stand-alone tribunals of specialty jurisdiction on several occasions, most recently creating the US Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (CAVC) in 1988.
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British employment tribunals take a dim view of a woman who waits more than three months to complain, and regard cordial communications with her alleged harasser as undermining her case.
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The Brussels International Business Court (BIBC) will seek to take on cases that are so far handled by British courts or international arbitration tribunals, the Belgian government said on Friday.
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Executives admit to gaping holes in the IP system, particularly in inland regions where local tribunals are subject to heavy-handed interference by provincial governments keen to shield local copycats.
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Leading lawyers urged China's supreme court to consider similar bold steps when setting up the new tribunals, playing on its desire to make the judiciary more worldly and better-trained.
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Mr Zhou's comments raise questions about the new belt-and-road tribunals, Susan Finder, one of the court's expert advisers, has written on her influential blog, Supreme People's Court Monitor.
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Some 70 percent of authorized projects are facing appeals in Administrative Tribunals courts, the government said, adding that its reforms would remove a level of jurisdiction in the appeals process.
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"Today's decision simply and purely means that Belgian citizens cannot obtain the protection of their private lives through the courts and tribunals when it concerns foreign actors," said a spokesperson.
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It has been customary at international tribunals to deduct one-third of the total sentence, so Mr. Bemba may be eligible for early release in as little as four years.
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The most recent attempt started in 22009, when the current government established two International Crimes Tribunals that together have convicted 21971 people on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity.
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After 9/11, under President George W. Bush, the U.S. used torture, illegal domestic surveillance, suspended habeas corpus for terrorism suspects and used unconstitutional kangaroo military tribunals for the same.
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And American negotiators have proposed gutting special tribunals that Canada and Mexico consider vital to their legal power in pushing back against some of the US's more aggressive protectionist moves.
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M. Cherif Bassiouni, a renowned Egyptian-American jurist who helped found two war-crimes tribunals and was widely regarded as a godfather of modern international criminal justice, died on Sept.
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In fact, a Catalan party, Esquerra Republicana, wants the Socialist government to go further and annul the court rulings of Franco's regime, many of which were decided by military tribunals.
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We called for the inclusion of civil society, labor and members of Congress in negotiations, and an end to the sublimation of our international laws by tribunals of corporate lawyers.
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Over the next several years, in what multiple international tribunals have found to have been an illegal expropriation, Russian authorities sold off Yukos piece by piece to state-owned enterprises.
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In August, the state government left nearly 2 million people living in Assam off a list of citizens, though they can apply through tribunals provided their documents are in order.
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The files included letters from accusers, police investigations, transcripts from secret church tribunals, rehab reports, and a number of the orphanage settlement letters that Widman had fought so hard to get.
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A Syrian court could try suspects, but postwar tribunals are often seen as biased in favor of the victor, as in the case of Iraq after the ouster of Saddam Hussein.
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The state flagged 4 million people as possible foreigners last year; on August 31, they will find out if they have to face trial in the tribunals that jailed the Biswases.
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Rather, the Hamdan ruling rested implicitly on the Court's refusal to believe that in November 2001 the president really had made a considered judgment as to whether military tribunals were necessary.
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Moreover, the US already tried to set up an alternative system — the military tribunals at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, that George W. Bush established after 9/11 — and it was a disaster.
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A growing number of former bank staff are going to London employment tribunals and claiming they were unfairly fired after investigations into the alleged manipulation of Libor and foreign exchange markets.
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"If Apple is violating the orders, Qualcomm will seek enforcement of the orders through enforcement tribunals that are part of the Chinese court system," said Don Rosenberg, general counsel for Qualcomm.
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CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's chief prosecutor on Wednesday accused security officers of excessive force and condemned the use of military tribunals to judge protesters, deepening her split with President Nicolas Maduro's government.
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The government and FARC rebels are finalizing a roadmap that would see around 7,000 rebels hand in their weapons and establish a truth commission and special tribunals to try former combatants.
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"The timing, just before the swearing in of justices for Electoral Tribunals and the hearing of election-related cases, has also raised concerns about the opportunity for electoral justice," she added.
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"The timing, just before the swearing in of justices for Electoral Tribunals and the hearing of election-related cases, has also raised concerns about the opportunity for electoral justice," it said.
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Indeed, the Obama Administration's "Dear Colleague" letter has resulted in sweeping regulatory changes, resulting in colleges and universities setting up their own campus rape tribunals to adjudicate cases of sexual assault.
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His lawyers challenged the conviction on the grounds that material support was not a recognized international war crime at the time of his actions, and tribunals are generally for war crimes.
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These same rules in NAFTA subject our domestic laws to tribunals of three corporate lawyers who can demand unlimited sums of taxpayer money, including for the loss of expected future profits.
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Rulings reviewed by Reuters indicate the tribunals are giving credence to claimants who say they feared deportation or racist attacks following Trump's election on a platform advocating more restrictions on immigration.
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Before calling an election last August, then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper appointed 49 Canadians to various tribunals, boards, and federal jobs, in a move that was decried as old-school patronage.
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A growing number of former bank staff are going to employment tribunals in London with unfair dismissal lawsuits in the wake of a crackdown on the banking industry after the financial crisis.
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Polls show that many Colombians remain skeptical of the former rebels&apos commitment to peace and want them banned from entering politics until they confess their war crimes to special peace tribunals.
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"It's very, very rare for the prosecution to gain access to such a library of crimes," said William Bourdon, a French lawyer for the victims who has long practiced before international tribunals.
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In an apparent reference to China's territorial spat with the Philippines, the group also called on countries to observe international maritime laws and implement any binding judgments delivered by courts and tribunals.
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BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's Senate has backed a law to regulate transitional justice under the country's peace deal with Marxist FARC rebels, including special tribunals that will try guerrilla leaders for war crimes.
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Lawyers said there could be many more such cases among the thousands of applicants who were rejected by the tribunals in the same period but did not appeal to the federal courts.
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But talk of special tribunals for bishops and other tough, centralized measures evaporated, and advocates grew so disillusioned with the pope's lack of action that some quit his pontifical commissions in protest.
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He asks us to stand — or, thankfully, sit, on rows of wooden benches — as witnesses in a "gacaca," a grass court, as the public tribunals after the 1994 ethnic genocide were known.
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A 2004 move to set up Shariah mediation for Muslim family disputes in Ontario, which already allowed Jewish and Catholic faith-based tribunals to operate in the province, incited a national outcry.
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Bush Justice Anthony Kennedy — the same Justice who would hear an emergency application from the Trump Department of Justice that arises in Washington state — wrote the majority decision, striking down the Tribunals.
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Anas Tanwir, a lawyer who has handled more than 50 appeals of Foreigner Tribunals' rulings before the Supreme Court, said many of the Muslims he represented had not gotten a fair shot.
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Anas Tanwir, a lawyer who has handled more than 50 appeals of Foreigner Tribunals' rulings before the Supreme Court, said many of the Muslims he represented had not gotten a fair shot.
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After a series of W.T.O. decisions in which tribunals cooked up new standards — never agreed to by member nations — related to anti-dumping and subsidy issues, the Obama administration initiated a protest.
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While TV cameras are barred from nearly all other tribunals, the Supreme Court's live stream on the first day of the hearing was accessed on its website more than 4 million times.
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The committee did target a few suspected spies, but HUAC's tribunals served primarily to decimate the American left, creating an atmosphere in which communists and noncommunists alike feared expressing their political opinions.
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Contributing to years of delays, defense lawyers have been able to mount repeated challenges to every procedural step because the rules of the tribunals system are untested, unlike those of civilian court.
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On Monday, 450 environmental organizations wrote a public letter to Congress that claimed the TTIP would allow foreign oil companies to sue the US government in extrajudicial tribunals composed of corporate representatives.
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UN-mandated inquiries, and case-law from some international tribunals, have found that murder can be committed through recklessness,' said Sarah Knuckey, co-director of the Human Rights Institute at Columbia University.
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Canada and the European Union said they would also seek to create a permanent multilateral investment court to replace the various tribunals that would spring up if other similar trade deals are struck.
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That system left India's Debt Recovery Tribunals vastly overstretched, with court buildings strewn with ever-rising pillars of dusty files, gumming up the flow of credit in the economy and discouraging new investment.
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If you look at what we know about the arguments they tend to put forward at employment tribunals so far they have been well thought out and there's some factual basis for them.
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Given that Jewish religious courts known as Beth Din already have some standing in British case law, there was a risk of a proliferation of religious tribunals challenging the authority of secular justice.
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He added that he would be "fine" with trying US citizens in military tribunals at Guantánamo Bay, the US naval base that is also home to a military prison housing captured terror suspects.
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VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria wants its citizens who have fought for Islamic State to be tried in U.N.-style tribunals in the Middle East rather than brought home for prosecution, it said on Wednesday.
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Even those firms which have negotiated clauses theoretically allowing them to transfer staff to a location of their choice may find it hard to enforce such provisions at tribunals that handle employment disputes.
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The total cost in 2018 for housing just 40 prisoners at the prison, paying the guards, and running the military tribunals there was more than $540 million, or roughly $13 million per prisoner.
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Among the genocide's legacies is the International Criminal Court, which grew out of tribunals to investigate and prosecute those responsible for atrocities committed in Rwanda and during the Balkan wars of the 1990s.
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Whether through domestic war crimes tribunals, hybrid courts or the principle of universal jurisdiction, efforts are underway in many nations to seek justice for victims of the worst crimes against humanity, including genocide.
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First, as the court recognized during World War II, military tribunals are a narrow and carefully circumscribed exception to the general right of all criminal defendants to a trial by a civilian jury.
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But the tribunals at Guantánamo have repeatedly sputtered, dragging out for more than a decade cases that were originally envisioned to be so speedy that they were set in temporary buildings and tents.
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"The military commissions in their current state are a farce," Marine Brigadier General John Baker, the chief defense counsel, said last month at a Washington legal conference, of the tribunals that prosecute detainees.
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Under current law, the Guantánamo military tribunals may not be used to prosecute American citizens, although Mr. Trump said during the campaign that he was "fine" with expanding their use to encompass citizens.
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The modified accord also takes foreign magistrates off special peace tribunals, although there will be foreign observers, and stipulates the FARC must turn in exhaustive information about its involvement in the drug trade.
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Japan has been reluctant to adopt the investment court system the EU has devised as an answer to fierce criticism that disputes between foreign companies and states should not be settled by opaque tribunals.
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Some critics have also suggested that Trump's remarks would run afoul not only of the constitution but also of precedent, alleging that no prior US president has used military tribunals to try American citizens.
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Francis said he would change current Vatican procedures to severely limit chances of appeal for pedophile priests convicted by church tribunals, saying they often were overly legalistic, allowing for reduced sentences on procedural grounds.
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In fact, in all the decades Foreigners Tribunals have existed, and Ali has ministered to Sarabari, he said he's never been contacted by border police for an initial inquiry nor heard of one happening.
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Nazmul Islam Bhuiyan, a Gauhati lawyer who estimates he has worked on about 200 cases in six tribunals, said police had not done a proper initial inquiry in a single one of his cases.
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A spokesperson for the national Ministry of Home Affairs asserted that Foreigners Tribunals provide "adequate opportunity" to accused individuals, and ex-parte orders are issued only if the individuals do not access these opportunities.
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CIJA is led by Bill Wiley, a Canadian ex-soldier who advised the defence in the trial of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, and is a veteran of the Rwanda and Yugoslavia war crimes tribunals.
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By reviving a system of administrative tribunals, the legislation would, in some cases, enable corporate attorneys to badger agency officials with endless proceedings and trial-like hearings that would ultimately hold up pending protections.
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And then there is another, equally important question: given the lacklusture track record of such tribunals in dispensing justice, is the pursuit of justice for victims really the point of such courts at all?
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The centrist leader wants to make hiring and firing easier by giving more powers to companies to reach in-house deals on working time, for instance, and capping severance packages awarded by industrial tribunals.
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" Ybos knows there are problems with the way the police handle rape complaints, but hopes that "under DeVos, the Department of Education will stop using those problems as fodder to justify campus rape tribunals.
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Seven countries have "rights of nature" laws, said Shannon Biggs, co-founder of the Global Alliance for Rights of Nature, which runs 'tribunals' where judges hear cases on fracking, indigenous land rights and more.
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Perpetrators of genocides in the former Yugoslavia and in Rwanda have been convicted through ad hoc tribunals -- the second option suggested in the UN report -- but these have often taken many years to conclude.
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It is not a sovereign government with a recognized court system; it has set up ad hoc terrorism tribunals — and abolished the death penalty — but is using them to prosecute only Syrians, not foreigners.
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While the idea has gained some traction among countries eager to avoid handling the problem themselves, other international tribunals — which have generally tried only top officials — have proved unwieldy, expensive and of limited effectiveness.
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A crucial, and most controversial, element of the deal involved creating a reconciliation process in which rebels and government soldiers would testify under broad immunity before tribunals about the horrors of the long war.
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In essence, he wants to make hiring and firing easier by giving more powers to companies to strike in-house deals on working time for instance and capping severance packages awarded by industrial tribunals.
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"FIFPro calls on CAS and other sport stakeholders to work with player and athlete unions to ensure a proper structural representation and absolute impartiality of its tribunals and administrations," FIFPro said in a statement.
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The organization's founder, Bill Wiley, a Canadian war-crimes investigator who has worked on several high-profile international tribunals, had grown frustrated with the geopolitical red tape that often shapes the pursuit of justice.
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General Cullen and his military colleagues could have told him years ago that civilian courts are vastly more effective in bringing terrorists to justice than the military tribunals begun under President George W. Bush.
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Expulsion hearings, tribunals, or courts of law are not designed to do this; rather, these forums disincentivize truth-telling because those who harmed us know they'll be punished if they admit what really happened.
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Under the accord, Colombia will have a so-called 'Special Jurisdiction for Peace' (JEP) of tribunals, truth commissions and investigative units to try former rebel fighters, state military and civilians who have committed rights abuses.
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A number of former leaders have faced justice at special-purpose international tribunals, including Charles Taylor of Liberia (a 50-year sentence for war crimes) and Jean Kambanda of Rwanda (a life sentence for genocide).
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The average waiting time for appeals to be heard in immigration tribunals—run by the Ministry of Justice—is 46 weeks, compared with 290 weeks two years ago; waiting times hit 212 weeks this summer.
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A former member in a Foreigners Tribunal now practicing in the Gauhati High Court criticized the tribunals' reliance on documents alone, ignoring the local context of illiteracy, poor record-keeping, and frequent migration during floods.
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Under the peace deal, a truth commission and war tribunals have been created to document, collect testimonies and uncover what happened in the war that killed about 220,000 people, including abuses committed against LGBT+ people.
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Among the legacies of the genocide is the International Criminal Court, which grew out of tribunals to investigate and prosecute those responsible for atrocities committed in Rwanda and during the Balkan wars of the 1990s.
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It remains unclear how the FARC members would complete their terms if they are tried or sentenced by transitional justice tribunals tasked with bringing former rebels to justice for crimes like murder, kidnapping and rape.
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With 10 of the remaining 91 detainees expected to undergo military tribunals, that leaves another 47 detainees who could be approved by an interagency review board to be sent home or to a third country.
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But the Texas law has now earned frowns from both a district court and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals—one of the most conservative appellate tribunals—and the Supreme Court is unlikely to interfere.
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For Mr. Reichler, now a member of a rarefied fraternity of lawyers who represent countries before international courts and tribunals, the current behavior of China is more extreme than the United States in the 1980s.
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After the Cold War, human rights became a centerpiece of Western foreign policy, at least nominally, and in the 1990s, the United Nations Security Council set up criminal tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.
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"Any person who is not satisfied with the outcome of the claims and objections can file an appeal before the foreigners' tribunals," Hajela said in a statement, adding that everyone had received an adequate hearing.
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One group that monitors these videos is the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism, a legal team established by the United Nations to collect and preserve evidence of crimes for use by courts and international tribunals.
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Targeted seizure of assets and war crimes tribunals A second option is to threaten to seize assets of regime elites and try them for war crimes if they should use chemical, biological or radiological weapons.
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Unlike international tribunals that adjudicate war crimes and crimes against humanity, the International Criminal Court, based in The Hague, stands apart because its mandate specifies that reparations to victims must be part of international justice.
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On the list of individuals who were given the appointments, or had their appointment extended in the last days of the Harper government, nearly a dozen sit on boards or tribunals that have legal authority.
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BOGOTA(Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Women will make up more than half of all judges in Colombia's war tribunals, a historic move that gives women an equal say in building peace after half a century of war.
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Chief Prosecutor Luisa Ortega, who broke with Maduro this year, has condemned the excessive use of force by the National Guard as well as the increasing use of military tribunals to try those arrested in protests.
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The interviews were conducted in March and April by about 20 investigators with backgrounds in international law and criminal justice, including some who worked on tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, the U.S. officials said.
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The past few years have produced a series of employment tribunals, settlements and high-profile campaigns against low-paid bogus self-employment, which have caused companies to review the pay and conditions offered to their workforce.
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However, judges have consistently ruled they lacked jurisdiction in such cases, saying adequate tribunals existed in the plaintiff's own country and that it would be hard for defendants to make their case in the United States.
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A former diplomat, Akay was appointed a judge on the tribunal trying perpetrators of the 1994 Rwanda genocide in 2009 and later became a judge on the Mechanism for the International Criminal Tribunals (MICT), its successor.
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A key early provision, limiting payouts by labor tribunals to fired workers, has been dropped; after days of student demonstrations in France's streets the government promised to spend hundreds of millions of euros on young people.
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However, he reiterated a campaign promise to revise energy contracts issued to companies by the current administration for signs of corruption, warning that anomalies would be addressed by Congress and taken to national and international tribunals.
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In a letter signed by The Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth and others, the groups said the trade deals would benefit fossil fuel producers and allow them to challenge domestic pollution policies in international tribunals.
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As Greene, the sports lawyer, and Richard Ings, a former Australian antidoping official, pointed out, the Court of Arbitration for Sport and other tribunals allow athletes to select an arbitrator from a list of qualified candidates.
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Cohn vehemently opposed Trump's and Lighthizer's desire to rid NAFTA of ISDS — a provision, commonly negotiated in trade deals, that allows U.S. investors to sue foreign countries before international tribunals for alleged expropriations or discriminatory practices.
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The Military Commissions Act of 2006 listed that charge as a war crime that the tribunals could handle, but Judge Kavanaugh and the appeals court ruled that it did not apply retroactively and overturned the conviction.
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In 2008, after Mr. Paracha's conviction was affirmed on appeal, he filed a new trial motion, citing the detainee statements, which had been made before military tribunals or in interviews with federal agents, the judge said.
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Investor protection, and in particular a system of tribunals to settle disputes between foreign investors and states, became a focal point of protests against CETA when EU countries were deciding whether to back it in 2016.
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BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's lower house of congress late on Monday backed a bill to regulate transitional justice under the nation's peace deal with Marxist FARC rebels, including special tribunals that will try guerrilla leaders for war crimes.
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Under a peace deal signed last year between the government and rebels from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), war tribunals will seek to prosecute those responsible for human rights atrocities committed in the civil war.
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Some say they ministered only to other women, such as at immersion rites at baptism and to inspect the bodies of women in cases where Christian men were accused of domestic violence and brought before Church tribunals.
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That may be related to the fact that in 2016, the last year for which figures are available, Italian tribunals extended some form of protection to 24% of applicants from Bangladesh, a poor country but scarcely Syria.
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In Britain, for instance, employment tribunals are likely to regard an allegation as less plausible if an internal complaint has not been made first, or if the alleged incident happened more than three months before the complaint.
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And worse, the tribunals hastily assembled by universities often failed to provide basic due process protections to the accused—a right to review and address the evidence gathered against them, and to receive an independent, impartial judgment.
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Federal Judge Regina Coeli Formisano ruled Temer's promotion of Wellington Moreira Franco, the current infrastructure investment secretary, to a Cabinet-level position appeared designed to protect him from prosecution in all tribunals except for the Supreme Court.
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The court, legal successor to the tribunals that tried crimes committed during the Yugoslav wars and the Rwandan genocide, had been due to hear pleadings by Augustin Ngirabatware, a Rwandan politician serving 30 years for inciting genocide.
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Lawrence Kaye, a lawyer for Zuckerman, said many European tribunals have ordered the return of artwork sold under duress in Europe during the 1930s and 1940s, though such cases have been less common in the United States.
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But the current investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) process is set up in such a way that investors in countries that are signatories to trade deals can, through non-elected tribunals, override the sovereign laws of countries.
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The United States, alone among nations, has had the political heft and the global reach to push recalcitrant governments to cooperate with international tribunals, secure arrests of indicted war criminals, and ensure political support for accountability processes.
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Mr. Graham, who does not support Mr. Trump, also said that civilian courts had proved themselves able to handle Americans who collaborate with wartime enemies, and that using the tribunals system instead would create unnecessary legal problems.
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Those with failed U.S. asylum claims must prove to Canadian tribunals that the U.S. courts were wrong in their assessment, that their circumstances have changed for the worse, or that they qualify in Canada, several lawyers said.
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Human Rights Watch said in a June letter to Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha the junta had suppressed views critical of its policies by using trials in military tribunals, which have replaced civilian courts for some offences.
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WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld a military commission's conviction of a prominent Guantánamo Bay detainee on the charge of conspiracy to commit war crimes, salvaging a rare successful outcome for the troubled tribunals system.
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But the plaintiffs compare themselves with their peers at The Hague's other international courts and tribunals, who follow United Nations standards and, like the judges at the International Court of Justice, earn at least $230,000 a year.
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Programs like crop substitution for coca farmers remain in their infancy, Mr. Isacson said, and a transitional justice program, set to create alternative tribunals for crimes committed during the conflict, could be delayed as long as May.
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Everything from the Palestinian-Israeli conflict to the NATO-led war in Afghanistan to the invasion of Iraq and to the issues that flow from the related military tribunals and the detention camps and the torture sites.
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Another issue that stands out in the document and is far more specific is the proposal for NAFTA to drop the Chapter 19 dispute settlement mechanism, which establishes binational tribunals to help sort out trade practice disputes.
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The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), which heard the case the first time round, was chartered by the United Nations in the 1990s, followed by similar tribunals for the conflicts in Rwanda and Sierra Leone.
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Foreign diplomats and human rights groups have warned that Bangladesh's ongoing war crime tribunals and the government's pressure on the Bangladesh Nationalist Party have created a backlash domestically, according to Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch.
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Modi's government has approved the state's proposal to add 200 new Foreigners Tribunals to the existing 20093, and plans for another 800 are in the works, according to a senior official at the Assam ministry for national security.
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Nwankwo said the most important lesson, irrespective of the verdict, was for allegations to be scrutinised in open court, unlike the military tribunals that characterised Buhari's first stint in power, as a military ruler, in the early 1980s.
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Among the measures he doesn't like, longer working days and the capping of compensation awarded by employment tribunals — the latter absent from the latest version of the law, which was unveiled Monday by French Prime Minister Manuel Valls.
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Marion Lettry, deputy head of the French renewable energy lobby SER and part of the working group, said Administrative Tribunals were set to be removed from the legal options open to those campaigning against wind farms in France.
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Those suspected of being involved in war crimes would be judged in special tribunals with reduced sentences, many of which were expected to involve years of community service work, like removing land mines once planted by the FARC.
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"European institutions have so little good will to spare, so bulking up the court is shortsighted in the extreme," said Alberto Alemanno, a law professor at HEC Paris, a business school, and a former clerk at both tribunals.
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WASHINGTON — Military commission prosecutors at the Guantánamo Bay wartime prison have charged a high-profile detainee with two deadly terrorist bombings in Indonesia, setting in motion what could become the first new tribunals case of the Trump era.
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Mr. Duque and his party issue frequent verbal and legislative attacks on the post-conflict justice system (for example, against tribunals, whose structure took 19 months to negotiate, issuing light sentences for those who to confess war crimes).
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A growing number of former bank staff are going to London employment tribunals and alleging they were unfairly fired as conduct and culture in the banking industry come under scrutiny in the wake of the global financial crisis.
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Foreign diplomats and human rights groups have warned that Bangladesh's ongoing war crime tribunals and the government's pressure on the Bangladesh Nationalist Party have created a backlash domestically, according to Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch.
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But it doesn't call for the elimination of the most controversial one — the investor-state dispute settlement system that allows investors to sue governments in private trade tribunals and basically gives corporations the status of countries under international law.
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Major points that remain to be settled are whether the declaration will be legally binding and how far-reaching the decisions of investment tribunals created under the pact would be, particularly the damages they could award, Kern told ATV.
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In July the United Nations expressed grave concern over the NRC process, saying there's a risk of arbitrary expulsion and detention, with those those excluded being referred to Foreigners' Tribunals where they have to prove they are not "irregular".
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"I think it goes to a fundamental disconnect between the way the international tribunals have looked at these waters -- these waters look to us as free and open waters," said Mattis, addressing last week's freedom of navigation operation directly.
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Ending Clerical Abuse, which documented cases of abuse by members of religious orders that have a global presence in 21969 countries, also called on the church to publicly identify abusive clerics, and to prosecute complicit bishops in church tribunals.
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President Nicolás Maduro, the target of the protesters' ire, has responded with a steady stream of repressive actions, ordering the security forces to shoot at crowds with rubber bullets and rounding up hundreds to be sent to military tribunals.
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Advocate General Bot said that CETA did not affect the ECJ's role as the ultimate arbiter of EU law and that dispute settlement tribunals could grant compensation, but not order the annulment of measures deemed contrary to the agreement.
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This week, on his instructions, his party blocked passage of a law essential for special peace tribunals to start hearing testimony from former combatants, prompting a standoff with Santos and putting at risk the accord&aposs promise of justice for victims.
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It seems the president faces an uphill battle in both tribunals: the Ninth Circuit is commonly described as the most liberal in America; and with six recent Barack Obama appointees, the Fourth Circuit is no longer a bastion of conservatism.
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Since the introduction in 2013 of fees of up to £1,200 ($1,560) for bringing cases to employment tribunals, for unfair dismissal and so on, the number of cases has dropped by about 70%, with no evidence that frivolous claims have fallen.
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On Wednesday, Trump called the U.S. justice system a slow-moving "joke" and "laughingstock" and said he would be open to seeing Saipov transferred to the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where enemy combatants are tried by military tribunals.
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The US calls for the removal of one of three major dispute settlement processes under NAFTA, known as Chapter 19, which allows for the creation of international tribunals to help sort out disagreements over measures designed to penalize trade cheating.
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Austria's far-right interior minister, Herbert Kickl, called for "tribunals in the region" to be set up to deal with those who had left Austria and other European countries to join Islamic State, whom he referred to as "ticking time bombs".
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The public is most familiar with the use of "Gitmo," as it is known in military lingo, for detaining high-level terrorists — illegal combatants caught on the battlefield who are awaiting military tribunals (at which the Pentagon has also failed).
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" Later that day, the documents released Thursday show, Kavanaugh replied to a colleague in the White House Counsel&aposs office, Bradford Berenson: "I am happy to help out with this on the attorney-client issue, but you should obviously handle tribunals.
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The trial, which is based on an investigation by the International Crimes Team of the Dutch national police, is being heard at a Dutch domestic court in The Hague, rather than one of the international tribunals that sit in the city.
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According to the latest research, roughly 20 percent of young women will endure sexual assault while at college; most will not report it, and those who do sometimes find themselves caught in a bureaucratic maze of campus tribunals and independent investigations.
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The court filing from top Pentagon officials was the first explanation for the abrupt ouster of the officials, Harvey Rishikof, who had been serving as the so-called convening authority over the tribunals system, and Gary Brown, his legal adviser.
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He also argued before the Supreme Court on behalf of the Bush administration against a series of lawsuits filed on behalf of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, seeking to take their cases out of military tribunals and hand them to civilian courts.
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In the past, though, the United States has cooperated with the court on other investigations, and Washington played a central role in establishing international criminal law at the Nuremberg trials of Nazi leaders and in the creation of modern tribunals.
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The legal team knows its argument is a long shot — only a few tribunals anywhere in the world have considered whether human rights law applies to climate change, and no one has successfully sued a fossil fuel company for climate impacts.
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Should war break out with either, or both, Iran and North Korea, the U.S. can deter such attacks in at least three ways: massive retaliation, asset seizures and war crimes tribunals, and the Desmond Tutu option, also known as amnesty.
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El Akkad — who was born in Cairo and grew up in Doha, Qatar, before moving to Canada — worked for The Globe and Mail, and reported on the war in Afghanistan, the military tribunals at Guantánamo Bay and the Arab Spring.
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In fact, it was Mr. Barr who privately suggested to the Bush White House that it create a tribunals system, an idea he had considered as attorney general during the investigation of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
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The tribunals could potentially allow around 750 European energy companies to expand offshore drilling, dig more coal, and embark on other exploration despite American regulators' objections, or penalize those regulators for upholding US law if their decisions result in corporate losses.
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WhatsApp had said in a statement on Monday that it was "disappointed" at the judge's decision to suspend its services, saying it had done its utmost to cooperate with Brazilian tribunals but did not possess the information the court was requesting.
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As part of the peace accord, truth tribunals will begin later this year to uncover abuses committed by all sides in the war - likely to shed light on the extent to which rape was used as a weapon of war in Colombia.
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In 2006, the Washington Post called the nation&aposs highest court "a Supreme Court of One" after Kennedy decided to side with the court&aposs more left-leaning faction regarding former President George W. Bush&aposs military tribunals for Guantanamo Bay detainees.
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The new Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code aims to move cases of company failure into a single forum, replacing an archaic system of overlapping regulations under which banks, company promoters and other creditors could all initiate competing proceedings in different courts, tribunals and regions.
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A review of orders issued in recent years by Assam's tribunals - quasi-judicial bodies set up for illegal immigration cases - shows many people of Bengali descent have been declared foreigners because of discrepancies in their names and other details on identity documents.
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There are many flaws in the system, but five stand out: The lawyers sitting as judges in the tribunals had differing views on what documents could be submitted, what statements should contain, and how much time the accused had to produce witnesses.
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As reporter Carole Rosenberg wrote in The New York Times on Monday, the total cost in 2018 for housing just 40 prisoners, paying the guards, and running the military tribunals there is somewhere north of $540 million, or roughly $13 million per prisoner.
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Mr. Trump can now sweep away those limits and open the throttle on policies that Mr. Obama endorsed as lawful and legitimate for sparing use, like targeted killings in drone strikes and the use of indefinite detention and military tribunals for terrorism suspects.
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The controversy and uproar over the suspension of the Chief Justice of Nigeria just three weeks before the elections raised concerns among many Nigerians about the independence of the judiciary and Electoral Tribunals, should the courts be called upon to adjudicate election disputes.
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In a sign that the military is bracing for a prolonged role here, it successfully lobbied Congress last month to pass a law allowing soldiers who commit crimes against civilians during operations to be tried in military tribunals, rather than civilian courts.
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The US is also at odds with Canada and Mexico over its desire to get rid of the "investor-state dispute settlement" (ISDS) mechanism, a provision that allows corporations to sue foreign governments in tribunals if they think they've been wronged by them.
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WASHINGTON — A retired Navy judge has been named to oversee the military tribunals at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, filling a job that has lacked a permanent occupant since his predecessor was dismissed last year after discussing plea deals with defense lawyers in the Sept.
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Whether domestic offenses are or are not within the jurisdiction of the Guantánamo tribunals will have a lot to say about their utility as a policy option for future detainees — along with the legitimacy of the entire military commission enterprise thus far.
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In 2015, Mr. Zubair was close to agreeing to a similar plea deal in exchange for being permitted to serve his sentence in Malaysia, but it collapsed amid doubts over whether that government would adhere to a prison term imposed by the tribunals.
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But he decided instead to keep and overhaul the tribunals system as an available tool for dealing with a narrow band of detainees, especially those who could receive a trial only under the military system's more flexible rules concerning the admissibility of evidence.
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Looking ahead: The American penalty may spur other countries to impose similar measures, or raise pressure on Sri Lanka to pursue its own war crimes tribunals — though there are signs that the country is taking an illiberal turn under President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.
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Asked at the forum if Venezuela is governed by a dictatorship, Videgaray said, "Well, I believe that, today, it is not a democracy and we are frankly seeing authoritarian actions," citing as an example the use of military tribunals to try civilians.
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Rather than scrap Nafta's arbitration tribunals, regarded by some free-trade critics as secretive bodies that give private corporations unbridled power to challenge foreign governments outside the court system, the letter proposed to "maintain and seek to improve procedures" for settling disputes.
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Lawyers who have handled dozens of cases said that members of refugee tribunals, who evaluate requests for asylum, have grown more sympathetic toward people who have spent time in the United States and who say they now fear immigration policies under Trump.
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At the deal's core is the shocking Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) section, which allows corporations to sue governments in closed-door tribunals before a panel of three corporate lawyers, demanding unlimited sums of money from taxpayers to undermine laws that corporations don't like.
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With the closing of Guantanamo in sight, the next administration should lift the ban on bringing Guantanamo detainees to America, bring an end to military tribunals for cases of terrorism, and conduct federal trials in the United States for the 61 remaining suspected terrorists.
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He supported meta-data collection, attacked whistleblowers, subpoenaed records to track leaks from his office, supported detention rights under the Patriot Act, declined to use executive orders to close Guantánamo Bay (allowing the government to detain but not try "enemy combatants") and expanded military tribunals.
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They say the claim is beyond the jurisdiction of the court in The Hague Nobody expects the Marshall Islands to force the three powers to disarm, but the archipelago's dogged campaign highlights the growing scope for political minnows to get a hearing through global tribunals.
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But the divided ruling left unresolved a broader legal question that could help determine whether the tribunals system takes root as a permanent alternative to civilian court for prosecuting terrorism suspects, or fades away after the handful of current cases come to an end.
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We also saw this in Rwanda, where it has taken decades of intervention including military actions, legislation, criminal tribunals, and local truth and reconciliation processes (the Gacaca courts), among other initiatives, to begin to reduce trauma, suspiciousness and interethnic hostility to pre-conflict levels.
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In an eerie bit of 2017 synchronicity, it focuses on how the authoritarian arm of the church begins the process of consolidating its power to create the theocratic dictatorship we see in His Dark Materials, relying on the indoctrination of children and secret, chilling tribunals.
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Tom Reese, included in your article, that "clericalism is a great sin of clergy," the pope can immediately decree that all tribunals and policymaking church bodies will in the future consist of a minimum of 50 percent lay people, with women being well represented.
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Tom Malinowski, who served as the State Department's top human rights official during the Obama administration, said it was important that the war crimes office and the person running it retained the stature to deal with international war crimes tribunals and senior foreign officials.
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NEW YORK —Attorney General Jeff Sessions warned Thursday that terrorists could expect to be prosecuted both in civilian courts and military tribunals, endorsing some — but not all — of President Donald Trump's controversial comments following the deadly, ISIS-inspired terror attack in New York City.
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Some of this posturing is specifically masculine: A young-bachelor revolt against the new feminism and its date-rape tribunals, a broader male discontent with rules of sex, marriage and divorce that seem good for "alphas," male and female, but not for average guys.
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