Sentence examples for progress of legal from inspiring English sources

According to Amnesty International, "most of the defendants have no defense lawyer, have insufficient hold of the Arabic language to follow proceedings and in many cases they are not informed of the progress of legal proceedings against them" (NDTV).

During his tenure as China's internal security czar, Zhou was responsible for reversing the progress of legal reform and condoning practices that systematically violated Chinese law and individual rights.

PALENCIA/MADRID - 19 June 2006 - UNICEF says poverty, violence and exclusion still dominate the lives of millions of children in Europe and Central Asia, despite progress on legal and institutional reforms.

After six years at the Inner Temple he was called to the Bar on 20 April 1578, a remarkably fast rate of progress given the process of legal education at the time, which normally required eight years of study.

Mr. Dalli said he did not yet have any update about the progress of his legal action at the European court.

She tells her story and the progress of the legal case in the memoir It's Not Because I Want to Die (2010).

'We want justice.' Prisoners and police say the riot was motivated by the decision to transfer some detainees to another penitentiary, combined with mounting frustration at the slow progress of their legal cases.

Just as it did when the US authorities sought details of people connected with Wikileaks, or a British local authority tried to unmask an allegedly libellous account, the social network has informed "@unstevedorkland" about the progress of the legal action.

Under the House plan, people would also be required, as part of their application progress for legal status, to sign an admission stating they had violated American immigration laws, aides said.

It observed the fact that Shaikh is the first European to be executed in China in 50 years is highly emotive and sensational: "But viewed in context, the uniform application of sentencing standards for both the Chinese and foreigners underscores the progress of China's legal system, which is steadily building the principle of rule of law".

And in states where case law has been building in favor of patients' rights, the Norwood amendment would basically kill years of legal progress.