These trials must be held in strict accordance with international judicial norms.
The point, as legal experts have set out in detail, is that the judicial pursuit of Ms Tymoshenko fails to respect internationally accepted judicial norms.
Describing a deep friendship that followed, he hailed Mrs. Graham with open affection as "a seminal figure in the battle to submit even the highest officials to ethical and judicial norms".
In particular, the judge's ill-advised public statements about the case -- for example, comparing Microsoft to a drug gang -- violate judicial norms and create the unfortunate impression that he may have been biased.
Just weeks earlier, the D.C. Circuit declined to issue the plaintiffs' request for the stay, following uniformly applied federal judicial norms -- until now.
But while Scalia described himself as a "fainthearted originalist," and could occasionally be swayed by shifting judicial norms, Toobin writes that "there is nothing fainthearted about Thomas's convictions about the meaning of the Constitution".
Consultation of this kind occurred in the Clinton years, and it should be the norm for judicial selections, no matter which party holds the White House.
Phillips has been cited as an early example of judicial recognition of the norm of prosecutorial enforcement discretion and as an example of mootness (although the Phillips Court did not use that term).
If you are in a state where judicial foreclosures are the norm, you may have to prove your ability to pay to a judge before the sale can be closed.
They mean not only that there are norms creating legislative, executive and judicial powers, but that these norms impose significant limits on those powers.[2] Often these limitations are in the form of civil rights against government, rights to things like free expression, association, equality and due process of law.
