These agencies, they said, are better equipped to tackle the increasing complexity of doping and guarantee the transparent proceedings necessary to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest.
"I think the courts are looking at the possibility of the Legislature coming into special session and hoping they can get the legal proceedings done to avoid that," said Jonathan L. Entin, a professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Law.
The judge said: "Indeed, one of their purposes in taking the course that they have adopted in these proceedings is to avoid revealing the terms of that trust to the defendant, on the basis this would go against Lucian Freud's wishes.
But Lord Judge had "no doubt" that MPs and peers would follow the constitutional conventions under which they do not discuss court proceedings "so as to avoid any possible interference with the administration of justice".
That includes, they say, considering whether to enter bankruptcy proceedings, or perhaps how to avoid that process.
In hiring a lawyer and opening proceedings, "I would like to avoid conflict," La Repubblica quoted her as saying.
Instead, the board went to court seeking, unsuccessfully, to persuade Judge Thomas P. Olivieri of New Jersey Superior Court to seal the proceedings in her lawsuit to avoid "devastating consequences" that could result from it.
Given the erotic temper of the proceedings, it is hard to avoid seeing the pannier as an elaborate double curtain for a proscenium, designed as for a theater of bodily delights.
U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel, whose decision was expected on Monday, said he was keeping the proceedings closed in order to avoid sequestering the jury.
