Independent judges vital
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A series of prohibitions recently issued by the Higher People&#39;s Court of the Beijing Municipality on judges&#39; dealings with cases are expected to help maintain justice if strictly implemented, says an article in Beijing Youth Daily.
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Â· Ruling means pioneer may have to close centreÂ· Move follows years of dispute with authority
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Plans are put forward to appoint two new judges in Scotland, taking the total to a record number of 34.
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NEWS: Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist&#39;s thyroid cancer gives the Supreme Court new prominence in the presidential campaign; the next president could appoint one or more justices.
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US SUPREME COURT: While the chief justice continues to work from home, his absence could have serious ramifications if there are any post-election disputes.
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Pakistani judges are expected to rule soon on whether President Musharraf can stand for re-election.
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I spent much of this afternoon in a mandatory (for poll workers) four hour training class on the Hart InterCivic eSlate voting system, soon to be in use in elections in my home county. (Hart InterCivic is a privately held firm out of Houston, specializing in election equipment and in software products for county records offices). Contrary to my previous impression, the machines are not touch screen machines, although they share some similarities.  I went into the class skeptical; I have been a critic of what I percieve as an unseemly rush to adopt insecure electronic voting systems. I emerged guardedly optimistic; the systems appear, from what I can tell, to be reasonably secure against vote manipulation by people who are not part of the election staff, and they appear to provide approximately the same level of security against election office malfeasance that paper ballots do. At the end of the day, if the election staff wants to tamper, they can; but that was true with paper ballots as well. That risk can be mitigated by election office procedures intended to mitigate it; in San Mateo County's case, those procedures have in some important regards not yet been established, as I will discuss below.
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BIG ISSUE: The Supreme Court is expected to rule soon on whether the system for sentencing federal defendants should be thrown out because it lets judges, rather than juries, decide factors that add years to prison time.
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Even a single appointment to the US Supreme Court could prove decisive in the nation's most contentious legal disputes.
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Verifica sulla competenza del Tribunale dei ministri
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Judge Richard A. Posner contends that the nationÂs security needs trump civil liberties.
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In a sign of possible discord in the jury room, the judge in Scott Peterson's murder case lectured the panel Monday about the importance of deliberating with an open mind.
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Monday's announcement that Chief Justice William Rehnquist is being treated for thyroid cancer was a reminder of one man's mortality - and of how a single vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court could change the dynamics of the divided panel.
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Parole Board lacks independence from government despite system needing to be 'free of influence', the lord chief justice rules
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In a sign of possible discord in the jury room, the judge in Scott Peterson&#39;s murder case lectured the panel Monday about the importance of deliberating with an open mind.
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State lawmakers pass a bill that allows judges to order treatment, joining 24 other states with similar legislation. By Gregg Krupa / The Detroit News.
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Chicago Tribune - Ailing Chief Justice William Rehnquist said in a report released Saturday that judges must be protected from political threats, including from conservative Republicans who maintain that "judicial activists" should be impeached and removed from office.