"A Ghost Story" provides its own supreme and cosmic justification: what Lowery films, with his rarefied fusion of style and subject, is the existence of the soul.
Canada remains one of the few western countries in the world without a time limit on detentions, a sharp contrast to the UK – where peers voted in March to limit detention to 28 days unless otherwise ordered by a court – and the US, where a landmark 2001 decision by the supreme court said justification was needed for any detention longer than six months.
In a measured and dispassionate report Saville, a supreme court judge, concluded there was no justification for shooting at any of those killed or wounded on the banned civil rights march.
"The fact that Mr Hartnett did not anticipate his comments being reported is in itself no justification for making them," Lord Toulson, the supreme court justice, said in his ruling.
It's the black hole argument that George W Bush's lawyers used as the legal justification for Guantanamo Bay, but not even the US supreme court would wear it, finding in Rasul v Bush, in which David Hicks was one of the petitioners, that habeas corpus extended as far as the camps on Cuba.
Yet no such scepticism is expressed about the no alternative and last resort justifications offered by governments who use terrorism in supreme emergency.
"What justification did you have for your 11-day resistance to the supreme leader's decree?" asked Ali Motahari, a lawmaker who is a conservative antagonist of Mr. Ahmadinejad's and asked the questions.
In February, however, the supreme court ruled that for the past 30 years judges had been misinterpreting a key justification for obtaining convictions, confusing the fact that an outcome might be foreseeable with criminal intent.
This year, the supreme court ruled that for the past 30 years judges had been misinterpreting a key justification for obtaining convictions, confusing the fact that an outcome might be foreseeable with criminal intent.
