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Showing 1 to 20 of 130 for “"Tribunals"”.
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The Role of Interpreters in Labour Tribunals
Interpreters within labour tribunals encounter role strain due to their assignment of multiple duties and responsibilities beyond their primary function of interpreting during proceedings. The assumption of supplementary duties by labour tribunal interpreters results in work overload, burnout, and …
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Hybrid and Internationalized Criminal Tribunals: Jurisdictional Issues
In recent years a number of criminal tribunals have been established to investigate, prosecute and try individuals accused of serious violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights. These tribunals have been described as 'hybrid' or 'internationalised' tribunals as …
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Legitimate Interpretation: Comparative Reasoning in International Courts and Tribunals
… of international law by international courts and tribunals; and, second, is it permissible for courts and tribunals to use domestic law in this way? Despite their deceptively simple appearance, these questions raise issues that go to the very heart of interpretation itself. On what basis, for …
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Explaining state cooperation with the international criminal courts and tribunals
… with international criminal courts and tribunals. I answered the research question by conducting two empirical analyses.The first study places states at the centre of the analysis. The literature review identified six conditions: court independence; court outreach; international …
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The work of the Military Service Tribunals in Northamptonshire, 1916-1918
Military Service Tribunals were established following the passing of the first Military Service Act, 1916, to consider applications for exemption from men deemed thereby to have enlisted. Given that conscription itself was an entirely novel mechanism to early twentieth century Britons, there …
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The Limitations on the Judicial Function of International Courts and Tribunals
… the ICJ and other international courts and tribunals have indicated circumstances in which they would refuse to exercise their jurisdiction since adjudication would trespass on the limits on their judicial function. Yet the ever-expanding jurisprudence of international courts and tribunals …
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United Nations Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals: necessary or avoidable? An analysis of the different options for the residual functions of the ad hoc International Criminal Tribunals
When closing ad hoc Tribunals, the Security Council is faced with the problem of how to deal with the residual functions that need to be carried out after the Tribunals’ closure. In the cases of the ICTY, ICTR and SCSL, the Security Council established the UN Mechanism for International Tribunals …
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Trials and tribunals: consensus seeking in course design approval in Higher Education
The focus of this study is an investigation into the characteristics of the processes and practices of course approval in higher education that shape, and are shaped by, the educational beliefs and values that university teachers bring to the design of their courses. It identifies the basis of how …
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Issues and Controversies Surrounding the Use of Plea Bargaining in International Criminal Tribunals
… use of plea bargaining in international criminal tribunals. Existing approaches to this subject have a tendency to be overly abstract, resulting in often ideologically deterministic justifications or critiques of plea bargaining in an international context. These approaches also fail to take into …
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‘Structures, Experiences and Discourses’: The Middlesex Military Service Tribunals and their Appellants, 1916-1918.
The Military Service Tribunals were established following the First Military Service Act of January 1916 to consider applications for exemption from military service by men eligible for conscription. Conscription was not unprecedented in British history, but there was no tradition of military …
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From Yugoslavia to Sierra Leone: advantages and shortcomings of the ad-hoc tribunals and the hybrid courts
… the hybrid courts with the international ad-hoc tribunals, arguing that the potential of the hybrid courts to work successfully is much greater than that of the ad-hoc tribunals. I present five case studies and provide an overview over the historical background as well as the legal framework for …
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Tribunals, Trials, and Tribulations: The Impact of Administrative Law on Religious Freedom in the Supreme Court of Canada
Since the introduction of the Charter in 1982, the interactions between law and politics have become an increasingly important consideration in Canadian political science. The literature has focused primarily on how the Charter has expanded the Supreme Court’s authority to shape the development of …
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Protectors of the Peace: Baptist Church Tribunals and the Construction of American Religious and Civil Authority, 1780-1860
This dissertation argues that Baptist churches served as important legal sites in the trans-Appalachian West from the Revolutionary period to the outbreak of the Civil War. By looking at how members and non-members approached their local churches for matters of dispute resolution over time and …
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Trials and Tribunals: administrative justice after PAJA and New Clicks with particular reference to the financial services industry
… that can be applied to administrative grievance tribunals. The practice of empowering expert tribunals to address grievances within the definition of administrative action and allowing administrators to review their own actions prior to a judicial review process is a favoured feature of …
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The contribution of customary international law to the development of international crimes: the role of international courts and tribunals
… sources referred by the international courts and tribunals as evidence of law satisfy the two-element approach of customary international law or have been used merely as a tool to reconcile with the principle of legality. The primary aim of the thesis is twofold: first, it examines the sources of …
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Fair trial and access to justice in South Africa how traditional tribunals cater to the needs of rural female litigants
… by approaching formal courts or traditional tribunals in civil and criminal contexts. In the formal courts, rural litigants (especially women, as lower income earners) encounter exorbitantly high costs of litigation, long travel distances to court, alien laws and procedures and, all too …
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TAX DISPUTES IN INVESTOR-STATE ARBITRATION
… tax disputes adjudicated by investor-state tribunals. I argue that the nature of taxation – a compulsory levy – is unlike any other state regulatory measure such as an environmental or a public health measure. I suggest that tax-related investment disputes constitute a unique category of …
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The Contributions of UNCLOS Dispute Settlement Bodies to the Development of the Law of the Sea
… for an assessment of the contributions of UNCLOS tribunals. Based on this working definition, Chapters 2, 3 and 4 examine the significance of UNCLOS tribunals’ decisions in the development of three main areas of the law of the sea, respectively the law on fisheries, the law on the outer …
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