In addition, appeals courts give broad authority to trial courts to decide the facts of the cases before them.
In any of these cases, civilians could be held by military authorities without trial.
Political prisoners were often held there, as were citizens detained by the authorities for trial.
In March it arrested and repatriated Charles Taylor, the former president of Liberia; Liberian officials handed him over to Sierra Leonean and UN authorities for trial on charges of war crimes.
Extra money is being given to two local authorities to trial new ways to co-ordinate bus and community transport services, particularly in rural areas.
All patients who were admitted to one of the seven participating intensive care units (ICUs, three Dutch, four Belgian) were enrolled from June 2008 to November 2009 after approval by the hospitals' Ethics Committees, national authorities and trial registration (NCT 00511186).
The State Department said later today that it had been notified by the Chinese authorities that trials had begun for two of the detainees charged with spying for Taiwan.
A spokesman for the Labour-run council said: "We received feedback that some local authorities are trialling the use of artificial flowers to reduce their maintenance costs.
In line with what reported by King and colleagues (2007)[ 18], our experience further shows that if accurately designed in conjunction with local health authorities, such trials do not to hinder the implementation of the intervention, but rather facilitate it with regard to some specific aspects.
Our work shows that if accurately designed in conjunction with local health authorities, such trials have the potential to generate sound scientific evidence and do not hinder, but at times even facilitate, the implementation of complex health interventions such as CHI.
As Gordon noted in Shonelle Jackson's death order, "Neither the Alabama Death Act nor Alabama case authority informs the trial court how it is to consider the advisory verdict".
