Lawyer Thomas O'Shea, who represented three young men allegedly molested by a former Houston seminarian, noted in the article that the Vatican's secrecy oath ensures that the statute of limitations for such crimes will have already run out in the US if any priest decided to speak out after his secrecy oath expired.
"No system in a city as large as New York — where hundreds of thousands of summonses are issued each year by tens of thousands of officers — is going to function flawlessly, but the department will continue to make every effort to ensure that these statutes are not enforced," said Celeste Koeleveld, executive assistant corporation counsel for public safety, wrote.
In the state case, the Georgia Supreme Court ruled that although disclosing the information might allow people to ensure that "Georgia's method of execution is humane," the secrecy statute ultimately made the execution process more "timely and orderly".
"The reason for the statute's painstaking procedural requirements is to ensure that agencies carefully balance their desire to collect information against the harms that might flow from doing so without proper safeguards," they wrote.
The goal is to ensure that debt collectors are pursuing those who actually owe the debt, that they aren't harassing debtors, and that they abide by statutes of limitations barring them from trying to collect on older debt.
And it may not, as originally expected, have to start again from scratch, which would ensure that the prime minister would benefit from a statute of limitations.
Statute is only necessary to ensure that the body is recognised.
The Trial Chamber also held that, "while ensuring that the trial is fair and expeditious, a Trial Chamber must also ensure that the rights of the accused, as set out in Article 21 of the Statute, are not infringed" (Prosecutor v. Milošević 4 April 2003, paras. 40 41).
Copyright experts say that perhaps more than any other statute, the Copyright Act has been updated over the years to ensure that the balance between copyright holders and copyright users remains fair to both.
There is no statute of limitation for juvenile-prostitution offences, and the lack of a pre-trial hearing should ensure that the entire process is completed before the prosecution runs out of time on the second charge.
This ensures that changes to the President's discretionary powers can only be made by way of constitutional amendments and not ordinary statutes.
