Sentence examples for citizens compensation from inspiring English sources

Courts may also issue injunctions against particular police actions and may offer citizens compensation for violations.

The European Court of Human Rights has awarded a German citizen compensation after finding he was an innocent victim of extraordinary rendition by the CIA.

A court in China has accepted a case filed by Chinese citizens seeking compensation from Japanese firms over forced labour during World War Two.

Earlier this year, a court in China for the first time accepted a case filed by Chinese citizens seeking compensation from Japanese firms over forced labour during World War Two.

Justice Hugo Black's opinion for the Court declared: In Seery v. United States the government argued that an executive agreement allowed it to confiscate property in Austria owned by an American citizen without compensation.

However, in a civil trial setting where, for example, a citizen seeks compensation for neglectful treatment at work, which has resulted in an accident or ill health, the court often uses a lower level of proof commensurate with the costs of being wrong in this different situation.

How many people in the West today want to compare the compensation citizens of India received for loss of life and health with the compensation that is likely to come from BP's oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico?

The case has inspired others in Brazil to consider the creation of other claim resolution facilities like CI 3054, not only for new mass tort dispute cases, but also for other cases where citizens struggle for compensation for 10 or even 20 years in the courts.

Shine Lawyers is working with counterparts in Scotland and the Netherlands to propose that governments who lost citizens establish an "international compensation fund" to pay reparation to families.

Bankers are facing the brunt of growing criticism from regulators, central bankers and ordinary citizens for continuing large compensation packages while the industry is being propped up by government funds.

McCartney and other prominent politicians, including the Labour peer Lord Brennan, have argued that the government is failing in a "basic moral duty" by denying compensation to citizens targeted overseas.