A court will not have to pass the six-month minimum if there are circumstances relating to the offence or the offender that would make it "unjust" to do so.
It says that for repeat offenders the courts must pass a sentence of at least six months on adults and four months on those aged between 16 and 18 – "unless there are particular circumstances which relate to the offence or to the offender and would make it unjust in all the circumstances".
The urgent need to solve health and social problems specific to adolescents could make it unjust to prohibit some research only because of the requirement to obtain parental permission.
(There were three million more votes for the Democratic candidate for President and approximately six million more votes for Democrats in Senate races — yes, it was designed to be unjust, but that does not make it less unjust — and this was, of course, the second time in five elections that the Presidential candidate who won the most votes was denied the office, a previously unprecedented thing).
However, it is not the labelling of a state as "Islamic" that makes it just or unjust, but its structures: does it have sufficient checks and balances between the branches of government, is the leader accountable and replaceable by the people freely; are the people sovereign or the clerics?
Granted, as a tale of teens fighting to make it in an unjust world, Rock of Ages is pretty toothless.
Either it has not a followed a rule, hence it is unjust; or it has followed a rule, which has no foundation, which makes it again unjust; or if it did follow a rule, it was calculated and again unjust since it did not respect the singularity of the case.
Though the principle that part of the cost of the court system should be transferred from the taxpayer to the offender is not a bad one, the rigidity of the fixed court charge makes it grossly unjust, because so many of the people who appear before magistrates are from the poorest sections of society.
57 Consequently the commonplaces p347 on the subject of witnesses, documentary evidence, arguments and the like make a great impression on the minds of the judges, as also do those topics which are peculiar to the case, those I mean in which we praise or blame any action or show that it is just or unjust, or make it seem more or less important or more or less harsh than it really is.
It used to be called McCain-Kennedy, before other senators tacked on tough-posing amendments that made it fundamentally unworkable and unjust.
There is also always the danger that using violence to overthrow an unjust ruler makes it more difficult to establish which side is really on the side of justice.
