Sentence examples for judicial figures from inspiring English sources

The "remnants" include various people associated with Mubarak's regime, including leading military, security and judicial figures, rural and provincial leaders of the disbanded National Democratic party, and business people who amassed huge fortunes in the Mubarak era.

The Chilcot inquiry is incapable of addressing the key issue of whether the invasion of Iraq was legal, senior judicial figures have said, adding to the controversy surrounding the inquiry's legitimacy.

One of Britain's most authoritative judicial figures last night delivered a blistering attack on the invasion of Iraq, describing it as a serious violation of international law, and accusing Britain and the US of acting like a "world vigilante".

Iraqi investigators and judicial figures are attempting to take a harder line – interpreting their silence as complicity in a terrorist insurgency that still poses a subversive threat to the fragile state.

A government statement said that Suleiman, who is apparently playing an increasingly powerful role, agreed to a number of measures including the formation of a committee of political and judicial figures to oversee changes to the constitution which would scrap provisions that limit the ability of the opposition to run for the presidency.

There have been repeated calls from influential legal and judicial figures for an investigation into whether the invasion of Iraq was illegal, including the former senior law lord Lord Bingham, who last year reiterated that it was "a serious violation of international law".

A Crown Court judge has become the most senior judicial figure to join the backlash  – expressing his dismay at having to levy the "extremely unfair" charge.

A Leicester judge became the latest judicial figure to speak out against the Criminal Courts Charge this week, saying he does not think it has "any merit".

But the London mayor, Boris Johnson, said it was time to give the intelligence agencies new powers, as long as warrants to listen to the contents of phone calls were provided by a judicial figure and not a minister.

Judge Coffin, who retired from the bench in 2006, had long been a leading political and judicial figure in Maine, but he was also known widely among judges throughout the nation for his writings on the techniques and obligations of a federal appeals court judge.

He is survived by Elizabeth, whom he married in 1963, by his daughter, Kate, his sons, Harry and Kit, and six grandchildren. Louis Blom-Cooper writes: It is no exaggeration to say that Tom Bingham was the greatest judge of our time – arguably, the most significant judicial figure among the long line of notables in the history of the Anglo-Saxon legal systems.