| One of the most profound ideas to emerge from World War Two was the emergence of an international human rights culture and legal system. |
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| The legal system is based on traditional tribal customs and the German and French models introduced by the Belgians. |
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| During the Middle Ages in the west, the Roman legal system was in power in the Eastern Roman Empire. |
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| The first of these criticisms misconceives the nature of the international legal system. |
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| The legal system is based on a combination of Spanish law and the tribal system. |
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| In the last two decades, a blast of outrage has been directed at the legal system for ignoring or trivializing complaints of domestic violence. |
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| In one verse he introduced a sideswipe at the repressive legal system of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. |
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| The legal system is skewed towards mothers and, as a result, some women abuse this for their own means, she claims. |
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| She leaves unexamined the question of how the legal system should determine whether it is confronting such an individual. |
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| I don't know personally if the legal system does indeed have it in for dads. |
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| After the verdict Alexander's parents, Stephen and Kirstie Graham, released a joint statement condemning the legal system. |
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| Any sensible legal system has to rely in part on sanctions brought to bear after people have stolen property or looted corporations. |
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| In a society with an imperfect legal system, any false case can be fabricated, and they will also seem serious and perfect from the outside. |
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| He says the legal system is becoming increasingly concerned with political life. |
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| The fact is that our legal system gives victims a tiny fraction of the actual harm caused to them by the negligence of others. |
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| But the media has long since been corrupted by a far more sophisticated, legal system of payola and influence peddling. |
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| Is there any better evidence that the rich in this country are funneled through one legal system while the poor get another? |
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| In 1995, the government established a legal system based on English common law and customary law. |
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| Our adversarial legal system coupled with political clientism was unable to deal with it. |
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| And the legal system generally takes the view that the value of using speech as evidence justifies this indirect deterrent effect. |
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| In the meantime, he is on a hunger strike in a Canadian jail to protest the US legal system. |
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| Software is at the mercy of users in distant lands with exotic laws and a disregarded and disrespected legal system. |
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| As Zambia has a dual legal system, the obligation to maintain comes from both customary and statute laws. |
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| The legal system is based on English common law, with some civil law influence. |
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| On the whole, the legal system has not been entirely overhauled and this has generated suspicion and distrust on the part of investors. |
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| Neakok was appointed by the State of Alaska to be a magistrate, and was instrumental in introducing the American legal system to the Inupiat. |
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| The Polish legal system is a combination of the continental system of law and holdovers from Communist legal theory. |
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| Thus, the pro-construction clans made use of the French legal system and external capitalist institutions to support their claims and efforts. |
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| Modern Basque historiography blames the monarchy of Navarre for failing to integrate the particularities of the local legal system. |
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| Again, the importance of a functioning legal system cannot be overestimated. |
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| The whole legal system would collapse if even just a few lawyers begin to let their own moral consciences influence their work. |
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| Reliance on these principles contributes to the relative autonomy and structural integrity of the legal system. |
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| He would like Scotland's Parliament to establish separate procedures for the Scottish legal system. |
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| In turn, that will necessarily mean that the trauma inflicted on the victim by the legal system itself will be extended over a period of years. |
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| So is it possible to say, leaving infanticide to one side, what kind of mothers do better under the legal system and which do worse? |
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| Chasing debtors via the legal system wastes court time, is costly and impedes faster repayment. |
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| How do you get Indonesians to respect court decisions, when the Indonesian legal system has been so corrupt? |
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| More than anything, however, it is a damning indictment on the legal system at that time. |
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| He loves the legal environment and is fascinated by the American legal system. |
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| Alexander feels that, in order for the legal system to work, people must have free access to it. |
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| One of those institutions is a legal system that is effective, efficient and independent. |
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| However the French legal system uses a different method of genetic fingerprinting and legal officials requested the opportunity to test samples. |
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| She says the legal system is not doing enough to protect women, and in some cases is aiding and abetting men who stalk former partners. |
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| In my heart of hearts, I think unenforceable laws such as these are abominations that bring the entire legal system into disrepute. |
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| What is not arguable is the fact that Martin actually killed someone and that this had to be punished under the present legal system. |
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| How can the legal system and courts better meet the needs of children and adolescents? |
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| That is what we call jurisprudence, it is the philosophy and decision-making that underlies our legal system. |
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| Paradoxically, as prostitutes the children often fall victim to the very legal system that should be protecting them. |
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| Because of this, Maori have to somehow exercise rangatiratanga within the mainstream legal system. |
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| I strongly advise against the incorporation of emergency laws into our ordinary legal system. |
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| What rules could a legal system adopt as tests for the enforceability of agreements? |
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| We are presented with a glorious opportunity to remake our legal system from the ground up, and I suggest we take it by the ears and run with it. |
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| I think such kiss-and-tell books are mighty rude, but I'd be pretty troubled by their being suppressed by the legal system. |
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| He gained a lot more insight into the workings of our legal system from his experience than I did from mine. |
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| And they also had to study up on DNA science and the workings of the legal system. |
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| However, the French legal system and Gallic ways of doing things are still quite alien to the Scots legal framework or culture. |
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| This explicit entrustment to the Security Council to enforce the ruling of the World Court raises high stakes for the international legal system. |
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| It used to be impossible to prove that the legal system produces wrongful convictions. |
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| Our legal system compensates victims of wrongdoing with fiscal remuneration. |
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| The legal system is based on modified Roman law, with strong protection for the rights of the accused. |
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| The Korean legal system is based on a civil law system that was developed from the education system. |
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| That is a difficult question, and its difficulty results from a deep ambiguity in our legal system. |
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| Local ordinances and acts apply on the island, where most laws are based on the Australian legal system. |
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| Indeed it is good for the legal system to acquit the innocent and convict the guilty. |
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| Like most of Latin America, Chile inherited an inquisitorial legal system from Spain. |
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| The reason is that our modern, Westminster-style legal system is based not on justice, but on laws. |
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| The failure of our legal system to take this question seriously in any systematic way is troubling. |
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| VanLester's cases highlight a somewhat different problem for the legal system. |
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| The paper presents several such studies, some of which have direct bearing on the legal system. |
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| But many of her opinions and votes have had a dramatic impact on the American legal system. |
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| The legal system can seek to limit family members' antagonism towards one another, particularly when relationships are ending. |
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| American courts in the colonial period imported many features of the English legal system, including the doctrine of precedent. |
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| The legal system protects intellectual property through patents and copyright. |
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| It seems to me that they were a state, but they had a legal system which, according to their lights, was divinely ordained. |
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| Huge pressure is being put on England to bring its legal system into line with the rest of the European Union. |
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| Curbs were placed on the arbitrary exercise of power and steps were taken to give some measure of regularity to the legal system. |
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| The legal system is based on the French model, with both civil and criminal courts. |
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| The entire article is definitely worth a read, if only for a view into the strange goings on in the looking-glass world of our legal system. |
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| In some occupations at least, the creep of credentialism is due to our legal system and those masters of hindsight, lawyers. |
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| Terrorists cannot be dealt with by the same legal system as TV licence dodgers. |
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| In a legal system that's built on analogy and precedent, principles often expand past the boundaries that even their authors originally urged. |
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| I can't say that voicing the opinion that the legal system is a dated anachronism is remotely close to sanctionable behavior. |
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| Confused and upset, she was torn between the wish to adhere to the Australian legal system and the powerful love of her husband. |
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| Such discrimination violates central tenets of our liberal legal system, including the rule of law. |
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| Waiting for due process of the legitimate legal system seems a small price to pay to save even one screwed-up teenager. |
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| He spent ten weeks there and emerged with a vicious loathing of the legal system that he nurses still. |
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| Critics of the plan believe it is rooted as much in political expediency as in a genuine desire to revamp the topmost tier of the legal system. |
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| In the 14th century the chancellor entered the legal system when he began to hear appeals from subjects unable to obtain justice from the common law courts. |
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| The native legal system existed in its fullness before the ninth century. |
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| The magnificence of our legal system, your Honor, is that we do not seek an eye for an eye. |
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| An appellate system is more characteristic of a developed federal or confederal legal system, and it could be argued that the EC is ready for such a change. |
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| It is not within the purview of the legal system to help us grieve. |
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| The country's legal system is administered overly legalistically. |
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| Society actually has structured the legal system in a way that provides adolescents with enhanced protections but those protections often go unnoticed, unremarked, and unused. |
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| In addition, some problems arise beyond the control of banks, such as difficulties with the legal system enforcing loan contracts and compensation. |
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| People always blame the legal system whenever something untoward happens. |
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| This has had a profound impact on our legal system in at least two very important respects. |
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| The country's legendary bureaucracy is as labyrinthine as ever, and its legal system opaque, with separate laws for foreign and domestic investors. |
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| The responsibility for changing the system lies with barristers, judges, solicitors, paralegals and all those who work at the coalface of the legal system, he said. |
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| And as our political life grows more divided and acrimonious, so will our legal system. |
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| Our legal system is an adversary system, predicated upon legal advocacy for both sides. |
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| Federal judges are afforded a great deal of leeway by the legal system due to the difficulty of removing them from office. |
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| Daughter's Keeper is a zippily intelligent and emotionally charged peephole into the peculiar politics that govern motherhood and the American legal system. |
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| Federal appellate and district courts are enormously important in our legal system. |
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| In this Kafkaesque twist of the legal system, Maria is a victim indelibly marked as a criminal. |
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| If the forfeiter applies for reconsideration or submits to court in duration, the legal system institution will take part in the reconsideration or lawsuit. |
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| A further explanation may lie in the principles and style of legal interpretation and administration that are operative in Indonesia's contemporary legal system. |
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| Just in terms of carbon trading between countries, there will be a complex web for translating trading rules into every different country's legal system. |
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| Official favour is still needed in a country with a shaky legal system, ill-defined property rights and political protection that can be abruptly removed. |
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| But nothing in the Convention jurisprudence requires courts to shut their eyes to the practical realities of litigious life even in a reasonably well-organised legal system. |
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| Connelly expertly navigates the tricky corridors of the American legal system. |
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| Excluding others from access to incorporeal intellectual works was impossible and therefore the legal system, including copyright law, seemed anachronistic. |
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| There are simply too many unanswered questions that can't be swept under the carpet, and it's not enough to glibly claim the legal system has already ruled on these claims. |
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| That it took 12 years to litigate without one does no credit to the legal system. |
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| Now home secretary David Blunkett says he's been trying to get the cleric out of circulation in Britain, but the wheels of the legal system grind slowly. |
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| In the theory of our legal system that is a matter for a jury to pass upon, not for judges, though judges have to do it in the retrospective courts of criminal appeal. |
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| Since independence, a new autonomous legal system has been developing. |
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| Even if juries were abolished, the layman continued to play an important role in the legal system throughout in Norway. |
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| He condemned the court and, by implication, the entire legal system. |
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| He accuses them of trying to dismantle the country's legal system. |
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| For many decades the Scots legal system was unique for being the only legal system without a parliament. |
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| English law is the common law legal system governing England and Wales, comprising criminal law and civil law. |
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| Common law is a term with historical origins in the legal system of England. |
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| Nicaragua's legal system is also a mixture of the English Common Law and Civil Law. |
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| Roman law also denotes the legal system applied in most of Western Europe until the end of the 18th century. |
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| To describe a person's position in the legal system, Romans mostly used the expression togeus. |
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| A legal system, in which Roman law was mixed with elements of canon law and of Germanic custom, especially feudal law, had emerged. |
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| One reason for this is that the English legal system was more developed than its continental counterparts by the time Roman law was rediscovered. |
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| British judges and magistrates would also be sent to India to administer the legal system. |
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| The French legal system, however, was adopted, with its equal legal rights, and abolition of class distinctions. |
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| Courts may consider rulings made in other courts that are of equivalent authority in the legal system. |
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| The doctrine of binding precedent or stare decisis is basic to the English legal system. |
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| Leave to appeal is not a feature of the Scottish legal system and appeals proceeded when two Advocates certified the appeal as suitable. |
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| There were also official communities within towns and villages, the overall defence, religion, the legal system and the Things. |
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| English is also used as a second language among the middle and upper classes and is also widely used in higher education and the legal system. |
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| His satires dealt with common Elizabethan topics, such as corruption in the legal system, mediocre poets, and pompous courtiers. |
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| Ireland has a common law legal system with a written constitution that provides for a parliamentary democracy. |
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| Each overseas territory has its own legal system independent of the United Kingdom. |
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| The legal system is generally based on English common law, with some distinctions for local circumstances. |
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| As the centre of Scotland's government and legal system, the public sector plays a central role in Edinburgh's economy. |
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| The Scottish legal system was suspended, but some courts and institutions were gradually restored. |
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| England and Wales share the same legal system, while Scotland and Northern Ireland each have their own distinct systems. |
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| At the federal level and in almost every state, a legal system operates on a common law. |
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| In many cases enclosures were largely an exchange and consolidation of land, and exchange not otherwise possible under the legal system. |
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| Amendments to the school law, the Scottish legal system, and the railway laws were passed. |
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| The legal system is derived from that of the United Kingdom, with recourse to English courts of final appeal. |
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| The territory's legal system is based on English common law, with a small number of laws adopted from Jamaica and the Bahamas. |
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| The areas have their own legal system, distinct from the United Kingdom and the Republic of Cyprus. |
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| Scotland retained a fundamentally different legal system from that south of the border, but the Union exerted English influence upon Scots law. |
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| Scotland retained a fundamentally different legal system from that of England and Wales, but the Union brought English influence on Scots law. |
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| However, the legal system of each country is shaped by its unique history and so incorporates individual variations. |
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| Like any good legal system, parties in a case have the right to appoint an advocate who can argue for them at the tribunal. |
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| Despite the usefulness of different classifications, every legal system has its own individual identity. |
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| Some studies show that ethnic minorities are more likely to feel that the legal system within their particular jurisdiction is unfair and unjust. |
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| This accords with the principle of continuity of the legal system enshrined in Article 8 of the Basic Law. |
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| Furthermore, Korea, Taiwan, Manchuria, which were the colonies of Japan, has been strongly influenced by the Japanese legal system. |
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| In practice, Qatar's legal system is a mixture of civil law and Sharia law. |
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| The legal system of Singapore is based on English common law, but with substantial local differences. |
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| During the reign of Henry VIII the Laws in Wales Acts were passed without any democratic mandate, annexing Wales into the English legal system. |
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| Brazilian law is based on the civil law legal system and civil law concepts prevail over common law practice. |
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| The legal system is based on the Federal Constitution, which was promulgated on 5 October 1988, and is the fundamental law of Brazil. |
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| The legal system is clear and business bureaucracy less than most countries. |
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| Scotland retains Scots Law, its own unique legal system, based on Roman law, which combines features of both civil law and common law. |
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| Since then, Berwick remained within the laws and legal system of England and Wales. |
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| One subject the laws did cover is how the king fit within the rest of the legal system. |
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| As such some early scholars felt that the legal system was essentially unchanging and archaic. |
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| Much Latin terminology has entered into Old Irish and into the legal system, such as a type of witness teist from Latin testis. |
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| Unlike the Court of Chivalry, the Court of the Lord Lyon is very much alive, and is fully integrated into the Scottish legal system. |
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| Parliament Square is at the heart of Scotland's legal system, being the home of both the High Court of Justiciary and the Court of Session. |
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| The Court of Appeal of Sri Lanka is located in Colombo, is the second most senior court in the Sri Lankan legal system. |
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| The Portuguese legal system is part of the civil law legal system, also called the continental family legal system. |
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| The Hanseatic cities had their own legal system and furnished their own armies for mutual protection and aid. |
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| Even when it can be said to survive, it is not upheld by the legal system of any internationally recognized government. |
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| The Basic Statute of the State is supposedly the cornerstone of the Omani legal system and it operates as a constitution for the country. |
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| The insular legal system is a blend of civil law and the common law systems. |
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| The legal system in the colony was thereafter based around the English common law. |
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| Loyalists soon petitioned the government to be allowed to use the British legal system they were used to in the American colonies. |
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| The structure of government is based on the British parliamentary system, and the legal system is modelled on the common law of England. |
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| The Court of Appeal of Sri Lanka, located in Colombo, is the second senior court in the Sri Lankan legal system. |
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| Pakistan inherited a common law system upon independence from Great Britain in 1947, and thus its legal system relies heavily on law reports. |
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| The trust is widely considered to be the most innovative contribution of the English legal system. |
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| The concept of possession developed from a legal system whose principal concern was to avoid civil disorder. |
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| The Act did not apply to Scotland because by the Acts of Union 1707 Scotland retained its own legal system. |
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| Generally, the Finnish legal system does not permit ex post facto laws, especially those that would expand criminal responsibility. |
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| Parliamentary sovereignty is now the accepted judicial doctrine in the legal system of England and Wales. |
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| In 2007 there were a number of changes to the legal system and to the office of the Lord Chancellor. |
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| Ireland was the subject of the first extension of England's common law legal system outside England. |
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| Looking at the Malaysian legal system as a whole, sharia law plays a relatively small role in defining the laws on the country. |
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| However, Malaysian Bar Council responded by saying that common law is part of Malaysian legal system and that is no basis to replace it. |
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| The basis for the rule against bias is the need to maintain public confidence in the legal system. |
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| The basis on which impartiality operates is the need to maintain public confidence in the legal system. |
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| The erosion of public confidence undermines the nobility of the legal system, and leads to ensuing chaos. |
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| It fixes the hierarchy of laws and rules within the French legal system and the relationship between these different norms. |
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| Later, Guam borrowed much of the California Civil Code for its own legal system. |
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| The legal system is sufficient to conduct secure commercial dealings, although a serious and growing backlog of cases prevents timely trials. |
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| Lesotho has a dual legal system consisting of customary and general laws operating side by side. |
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| Socialist law or Soviet law denotes a general type of legal system which has been used in communist and formerly communist states. |
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| There is controversy as to whether socialist law ever constituted a separate legal system or not. |
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| Modern countries which incorporate classical diya rules into their legal system treat them in different ways. |
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| A peerage is a legal system historically comprising hereditary titles in various countries, comprising various noble ranks. |
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| In nations without a common law legal system, the distinction between high and petty treason did not exist. |
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| There was a complex legal system for concessions, and often multiple layers had different owners. |
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| There was a complex legal system for concessions, often multiple layers had different owners. |
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| Who knows, he may just hit the jackpot with the US style legal system they are installing in Vietraq. |
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| The gardai are not there to wetnurse people and what's happening is bringing the whole legal system into disrepute. |
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| But the true answer may lie in the simultaneous reassertions of independence of the French legal system and the press. |
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| What the legal system refuses to acknowledge, however, literature shines a klieg light on. |
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| Typically, when a legislature is amenable to entreaties from tort restrictionists, access to the legal system is transformed into a fire sale. |
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| I AM outraged to find that Sharia Law is being enshrined into the British legal system. |
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| But is their sniff strong enough for an entire legal system to rest on? |
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| If Schlegelberger was a product of the pre-Nazi legal system, Kurt Rothenberger, the True Believer, was an agent for its Nazification. |
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| Within our legal system, a simple grant of power without more does not conclusively resolve whether or when an agent can subdelegate. |
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| That's not the fault of the paediatrician, it's the fault of our legal system. |
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| How can a person who was convicted in a foreign corrupt county with no legal system the same as ours be extradited back to that country? |
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| As China adopted the Russian legal system at its incipience, the legal systems in the two countries have much in common. |
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| However, the official legal system in Iran does not even recognize fitnah as a concept. |
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| The United Kingdom does not have a single legal system, as Article 19 of the 1706 Treaty of Union provided for the continuation of Scotland's separate legal system. |
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| The English legal system became the foundation for patent law in countries with a common law heritage, including the United States, New Zealand and Australia. |
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| Canadian patent law is the legal system regulating the granting of patents for inventions within Canada, and the enforcement of these rights in Canada. |
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| The legal system especially underwent changes after the French revolution. |
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| The Dutch applied their legal system in their colonial empire. |
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| Natural justice is a term of art that denotes specific procedural rights in the English legal system and the systems of other nations based on it. |
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| The legal system of Singapore is based on the English common law system. |
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| The legal system of Bangladesh has its roots in the laws of British India. |
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| Although no specific mention is made in the Treaty of any legal system, these two clauses seem to imply that British law would be established in New Zealand. |
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| Before 1840 there was no formal legal system in New Zealand. |
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| Japan was the first country to begin modernising its legal system along western lines, by importing bits of the French, but mostly the German Civil Code. |
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| The Canadian colonies received the common law and English statutes under Blackstone's principles for the establishment of the legal system of a new colony. |
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| The Commentaries were long regarded as the leading work on the development of English law and played a role in the development of the American legal system. |
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| The trial is referred to as Bushel's Case, and is a landmark case that established beyond question the independence of the jury in the English legal system. |
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| But despite this, under just about every legal system in existence and as per international norms, corporations have the same legal rights and obligations as actual humans. |
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| Whereas findings of fact in a common law legal system are rarely overturned by an appellate court, conclusions of law are more readily reconsidered. |
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| Under the Indian legal system, jurisdiction to issue 'prerogative writs' is given to the Supreme Court, and to the High Courts of Judicature of all Indian states. |
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| The legal system is based on British common law and French civil law. |
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| The legal system for torts is based on a version of the Napoleonic Code. |
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| For example, the authority of the Yuan legal system, the Ministry of Justice, did not extend to legal cases involving Mongols and Semuren, who had separate courts of justice. |
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| In the gradual development of the Roman legal system, however, some important functions were detached from the consulship and assigned to new officers. |
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| Historically influenced by Chinese law, the Japanese legal system developed independently during the Edo period through texts such as Kujikata Osadamegaki. |
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| National banknotes are generally legal tender, meaning that medium of payment is allowed by law or recognized by a legal system to be valid for meeting a financial obligation. |
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| Today, the legal system is assumed to contain some earlier law influenced by the church, and adaptation through methods of reasoning the Irish jurists would have sanctioned. |
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| The Clearances relied on the de jure insecurity of tenure of most tenants under the Scottish legal system whilst the de facto security of the clan system was repealed by law. |
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| Private sector development has lagged due to human capital shortages, infrastructure weakness, an incomplete legal system, and an inefficient regulatory environment. |
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| In some cases these are intended purely as individual moral guidance, whereas in other cases they are intended and may be used as the basis for a country's legal system. |
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| The Scottish Government has executive responsibility for the Scottish legal system, with functions exercised by the Cabinet Secretary for Justice. |
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| Modern statutes will specify that they apply to Scotland and may also include special wording to take into consideration unique elements of the legal system. |
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| The various historic sources of Scots law, including custom, feudal law, canon law, civilian ius commune and English law have created a hybrid or mixed legal system. |
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| It is a hybrid or mixed legal system containing civil law and common law elements, that traces its roots to a number of different historical sources. |
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| Gibraltar has several positive attributes as a financial centre, including a common law legal system and access to the EU single market in financial services. |
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| The Constitution of Poland is the supreme law in contemporary Poland, and the Polish legal system is based on the principle of civil rights, governed by the code of Civil Law. |
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| In the late 19th century, the Ottoman legal system saw substantial reform. |
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| The Ottoman legal system accepted the religious law over its subjects. |
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| However Scots Law does not accord the same status to precedent, and judgments in one legal system do not have a direct effect in the other legal systems. |
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| This model of more limited legislative powers was partly because Wales has had the same legal system as England since 1536, when it was merged with England. |
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| Under the English legal system, judges are not necessarily entitled to make their own decisions about the development or interpretations of the law. |
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| Another is the legal system of civil law based on French, German, and Spanish legal codes and ultimately Roman law, as opposed to English common law. |
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| The development of the code was a fundamental change in the nature of the civil law legal system with its stress on clearly written and accessible law. |
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| Despite these reforms it is uncertain if Henry had a grand vision for his new legal system and the reforms seem to have proceeded in a steady, pragmatic fashion. |
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| The terms of the Treaty of Union with England in 1707 guaranteed the continued existence of a separate legal system in Scotland from that of England and Wales. |
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| However, the method of legal regulation is not a qualificatory characteristic that allows us to single out international public law into a particular legal system. |
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