This is not a question of tampering with Islamic law; it is a matter of standardising precedent, procedure and penalty so that citizens know where they stand.
There is no precedent, no procedure.
Health care policy staffers were camped out in Alan Frumin's office studying Senate precedent and procedure.
Of course, legal scholars have long recognized that the law is more than an antiseptic collection of rules, precedents and procedures that stand apart from the larger world of politics, culture, self-interest and morality.
For a month, the Senate Democrats and Republicans bickered over questions of precedent and procedure, unable to produce a quorum, and, despite Governor Paterson's efforts to compel a resolution, the scheduled end of the legislative session arrived without any action taken on either the crucial sales tax or control of the schools: partisanship trumping progress.
With no precedent or procedure in place for withdrawal, these Britons are left with almost nowhere to turn.
By exposing the shortcomings of the existing code, it clarified the issues and set important precedents on procedure.
There's a classic precedent for the procedure, one that the very title hints at: the one offered by the films of Howard Hawks.
In the case of Leonard Steven Grasz, nominated for an appeals court, the A.B.A.'s standing committee concluded that the candidate lacked respect for precedent and judicial procedure.
A bureaucracy's files (i.e., its past records) provide it with organizational memory, thereby enabling it to follow precedent and standard operating procedures.
