Judicial independence

Continued part 1, part 2 of ebook "Democratization and the judiciary: The accountability function of courts in new democracies" provides readers with contents including: legitimating transformation - political resource allocation in the South African constitutional court; the accountability function of the courts in Tanzania and Zambia; renegotiating ‘law and order’ - judicial reform and citizen responses in post-war guatemala; economic reform and judicial governance in Brazil - balancing independence with accountability;...

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This article addresses two issues: (i) Theoretical and legal basis of this principle; (ii) Factors affecting the implementation of this principle, based on the results of a survey of 100 random criminal cases through judgments, minutes of deliberations and interviews with 50 Judges and jurors to get opinions on the implementation of the principle that judges and jurors conduct independent trials and only obey the law in the practice of adjudicating criminal cases.

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The study concluded that the idea of fraud within the rules of administrative law is surrounded by provisions that are separate from the provisions of fraud in civil and criminal law, and that the administrative decision that based on fraud is a decision that is independent of the null decision, and it also constitutes a separate administrative theory in France's administrative law.

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One of the contentious and controversial issues is how to put judicial accountability in relation to another core principle of the judiciairy - judicial independence. That is why, the international and some regional communities have made efforts to develop a number of standards and recommendations on the mechanisms and forms of judicial accountability.

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This volume is a “reader”––a companion set of materials to be used (in whole or in part) in conjunction with basic U.S. constitutional law books and classes. The project was prompted by our sense that the leading U.S. constitutional law casebooks (including the two with which we are individually involved) do not contain much in the way of foreign or comparative source materials that might assist students to understand better the distinct legal, cultural, and historical premises that lie beneath––and the resulting choices that are made by––U.S.

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Why would an entrenched authoritarian regime establish an independent constitutional court with the power of judicial review? This is one of the most intriguing questions for students of contemporary Egyptian politics. In a country where the ruling regime exerts its influence on all facets of political and associational life, it granted the Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC) substantial autonomy from executive control.

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After teaching the course Introduction to the American Constitution for over twenty-five years, I have found that the popular approaches political scientists take in teaching this course are inadequate, if not incomplete. First, the historicalpolitical approach explains constitutional cases and doctrine in terms of the politics surrounding the court and the American political system.

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Independent directors have become a popular “cure-all” in the United States for whatever the latest malady ailing the modern corporation happens to be. Whenever a corporation has found its way into the headlines as the subject of the scandal du jour, it is overwhelmingly the case that it is the managers who are caught with their fingers in the till, having manipulated the numbers, rolling the dice with the shareholders’ money, or otherwise abusing the trust of shareholders and other corporate constituencies....

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The apparent division between cultural and linguistic approaches to translation that characterized much translation research until the 1980s is disappearing, partly because of shifts in linguistics that have seen that discipline take a more overtly cultural turn, partly because those who advocated an approach to translation rooted in cultural history have become less defensive about their position.

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