Sentence examples for western courts from inspiring English sources

It is only a matter of time, says Roxanne Christ, a lawyer at Latham & Watkins, before Western courts will be faced with the same questions.

The intervention of Western courts in the affairs of African leaders has been attacked as "neo-colonialism" by the supporters of some regimes.

Debts are bought and sold all the time, and Western courts have awarded hundreds of millions of dollars in judgments to debt investors.

Despite that setback Mr Sullivan said that African courts would be unable to follow the financial trail even if there was the political will to do so and only Western courts could compel the disclosure of bank records.

Orbis maintains that, as long as its activities are limited to providing litigation support for Western law firms acting in Western courts, it is helping to settle disputes in a more civilized way than they would be in Russia.

As Anwar al-Awlaki, one of Al Qaeda's most prominent ideologues today, has said, Muslims must not be forced to accept the rulings of Western courts; he insists that for Muslims to abide by Western laws is to live like sheep "stripped from their right to live as Muslims under the law of Islam".

"A lot of this stuff would never hold up in a Western court," he said.

The basic plan was traditional, but the western court (where visitors were usually received) was reduced to a mere corridor.

The precedent of a Nigerian community suing a multinational oil company in a western court has been set.

A regional court handling the challenge of Tencent, a Chinese internet giant, by Qihoo, a local rival, issued a thoughtful and transparent ruling that could have come from a Western court.

Betty Binns Fletcher, a federal appeals court judge whose liberal record inspired conservative opposition in the Senate when her son was named to serve alongside her on the same Western court, died on Monday in Seattle.