Sentence examples for judicial characteristics from inspiring English sources

The case records of 497 from a total of 522 consecutive involuntary admissions to Júlio de Matos Psychiatric Hospitall between January 1 , 2005and December 31, 2006, were examined retrospectively to assess sociodemographic, clinical and judicial characteristics.

Such "administrative proceedings that exhibit substantial quasi-judicial characteristics," the court held, must also be open under the First Amendment.

There may be scope for reform but the basic characteristics of judicial review, of holding the executive to account in the exercise of wide powers, should not be lost".

LAST week's Supreme Court decisions in two cases involving admissions at the University of Michigan did not have the usual trumpet-blare characteristics of a judicial landmark.

One of the special characteristics of the French judicial system is the existence of a hierarchy of administrative courts whose origins date to Napoleon.

Last March he said with characteristic assuredness, "When the judicial procedures are done, I will retake my place at the head of the Constitutional Council".

General personal characteristics are not inherently disqualifying factors for judicial decision making.

The wonder of the past six months is that so many people, from Michael Howard to anti-war protesters, have failed to learn from the history of judicial inquiries that fearless honesty is not their distinguishing characteristic.

"So far as the magistracy is concerned, its unique characteristic as a voluntary body of lay judicial office holders must be preserved; so too, the independence of the legal advice it receives".

Mandatory-minimum penalties formulaically neutered judicial discretion, and any consideration of a defendant's individual characteristics and life circumstances became a meaningless exercise.

This strong integration of judicial and clinical approaches is then one of the most characteristic specificity of the French juvenile justice system.