But Ouattara has refused to transfer Simone Gbagbo, the former president's wife, to the court, saying the Ivorian judicial system is competent to judge her.
His justification for war was the same as that for rigorous domestic discipline: only the statesman, furnished with all available information and equipped for judicious appraisal of events, is competent to judge policy.
The Oscars come up, Baftas, Oliviers and what-have-you, and he gets all partisan about who he thinks ought to win, so when someone else bags them he can't help thinking it's all bollocks and it was a pity vote or darkly political, and who says the judges are competent to judge anyway?
"Very few living scholars can rival his range, and none who is competent to judge can challenge the exactitude of his scholarship," wrote P. A. Blunt, a former Camden professor of ancient history at Oxford, in a book of essays presented to Mr. de Ste.
By discriminating between those cases in which it is competent to judge and those in which it is not, philosophy thus plays a self-critical role: mindful of its own limits, it allows religion to be itself.
Although sample-size was small (N = 17) and conclusions premature, all participating children above the age of 12 years were judged to be competent to decide on this treatment option.
The discrepancy between clinical (all parents and children were judged to be competent to join the studies) and formal evaluations (in which doubts are raised whether all subjects are competent) points to the influence that the procedure used exerts on competence judgements, and also demonstrates that a more formal evaluation can help to identify patients who need further information.
"Why that is and who is at fault I am not competent to judge".
Asked whether the parishioners had been consulted, he said: "I'm very democratic, but the public is not competent to judge".
