Sentence examples for foreign judicial from inspiring English sources

Brits abroad tend to get a sympathetic press when struggling in foreign judicial systems but the sympathy is not replicated at home, as translation services are contracted out and increasingly difficult to access.

Rather, Mariella's focus was on the Foreign Office's inability to intervene every time our citizens are unjustly detained abroad because a foreign judicial system, by any objective international standard, thwarts substantive due process (that is where, inter alia, individuals are tried though there is no case to answer, rules of evidence are ignored, and confessions are extracted via torture etc).

Koh is often considered to be a supporter of transnationalism, "the belief that U.S. courts can and should under certain circumstances incorporate international legal sources -- including foreign judicial opinions into their judgments".

DILI (IRIN) -- Timor-Leste's efforts to reduce the prevalence of domestic gender-based violence through criminalization and prosecution, already hampered by a general lack of trust in the formal court system, have suffered a fresh setback with the enforced departure of 11 foreign judicial staff who had played a key role in delivering justice.

The new clauses focus on a common foreign policy, judicial and home affairs, and the notion of flexibility to enable some countries to integrate faster than others.Much of this is controversial.

Devoted to the idea of independence from Britain, he worked on numerous committees of the Continental Congress at Philadelphia (1775 76, 1779 81, 1784 85), especially in the areas of finance and foreign and judicial affairs.

The unequal treaties that had granted foreign powers judicial and economic privileges through extraterritoriality were revised in 1894, and with the Anglo-Japanese Alliance of 1902 and its victory in two wars (over China in 1894 95 and Russia in 1904 05), Japan gained respect in the eyes of the Western world, appearing for the first time on the international scene as a major world power.

But the change to G.O.P. leadership in the Senate -- with today's primacy of foreign affairs and judicial appointment -- was central.

As chairman, he was called to interface and collaborate with House and Senate leaders, testify before various subcommittees and consult with foreign governments regarding judicial reform -- tasks all well suited to his interest and knowledge of political and governance interests as well as the structure and needs of the Judiciary.

Among 12 participating countries, U.S. negotiators alone have sought to expand the functions of the extra-judicial foreign tribunals to enforce foreign investor contracts related to operating government utilities and concessions surrounding natural resources on federal lands.

Mr. Stiglitz said that despite "uncertainties" and a weak judicial system, foreign investors could expect good returns.