In what one professor has called an "ironic inversion", the Prosecutor's office has argued that Libya is under no obligation to surrender Mr. Gaddafi, concurring with the Libyan government that Article 95 of the Rome Statute permits the suspect's surrender to be postponed while the Court decides on the admissibility of the case.
One likely departure from the civilian tradition of unanimous verdicts would permit the conviction of suspected terrorists by a two-thirds vote.
Against a backdrop of criticism over the use of tribunals, the Bush administration reached a compromise that would permit the trial of the terror suspect to be held in an open criminal court, but in a jurisdiction with a strong record of imposing the death penalty.
The main deck has been modified to permit the installation… The summer is over, we suspect.
Police officials said the men were being held for questioning at an undisclosed place in Scotland under the Terrorism Act of 2000, a law that permits the detention of suspects in terror plots.
In a rare challenge to the House of Commons, the House of Lords today overwhelmingly rejected a Government bill that would have permitted the prosecution of suspected Nazi war criminals now living in Britain for offenses committed in the Baltics, Byelorussia and the Ukraine 50 years ago.
Lastly, the administration will need to explain why the response mechanisms meant to address access issues or possible violations will not become new negotiations that can be drawn out, permitting the Iranians to scrub suspect sites or cheat along the margins.
Its sweeping powers permitted the police to detain suspects indefinitely.
The ISA's sweeping powers permitted the police to detain suspects indefinitely.
Suspected terrorists imprisoned in Malaysia started a hunger strike in March to protest the country's internal security laws, which permitted the indefinite detention of suspects without charge.
All were being questioned in an unidentified police station in central London, held under Britain's two-year-old terrorism act, which permits the police to detain suspects for up to seven days before releasing or charging them.
