Ms. TASIA SCOLINOS (Spokesperson, Justice Department): And if the agency head determines that disclosure of that information would cause harm to the country, the Justice Department would review the proposed state secrets privilege claim and determine whether its assertion is appropriate in the litigation.
Michael Loucks and many former prosecutors like him may be enriching themselves in white shoe firms around the country, but the justice system has become poorer for it.
And the Pakistani intelligence service is known to keep tabs on everybody, from the chief justice of the country to opposition leaders.
Thames Valley Probation was the first in the country to offer restorative justice to the courts in 2009, as part of a community or prison sentence.
Can you speak to whether a contempt vote of the Attorney General by the House would have any substantive impact on how he does his job and the administration of justice in the country?
They had assured General Pervez Musharraf, the country's president, that the Supreme Court would uphold his removal in March of the country's chief justice, Iftikhar Chaudhry, on charges of corruption and misconduct.
Along with the defense industry, the criminal justice system in this country is one of the hallmarks of class divide and state privilege.
With the support of the NAACP, Republican Governor Nathan Deal of Georgia signed into law the most sweeping criminal justice reform legislation in the country.
In February the Dutch Ministry of Justice warned banks in the country that they could be prosecuted for transferring money from the accounts of Dutch residents to those of online-gambling firms abroad.
The country's chief justice, Boniface Alexandre, has been named as president, in line with Haiti's constitution.
Insiders say that the revolutionary court's decision was as much of a surprise to the chief justice as it was to the country at large.
Earlier this year, Mr. Rajapaksa removed the country's chief justice from office after a parliamentary inquiry concluded she had accumulated unexplained wealth and misused power.
Thousands of Kenyans began arriving at the stadium as early as 5 a.m. on Tuesday, seven hours before Kenyatta took the oath from the country's chief justice.
The case of Shrien Dewani, a British man accused of hiring hitmen to kill his wife on their South African honeymoon, cast the country's criminal justice system in an unflattering light.
Lawyers close to the country's first woman chief justice confirmed that she had received the presidential notice, but Dr Bandaranayake has so far not commented on the latest development.
On January 29th, the Peruvian armed forces held a ceremony to publicly honor General Bellido for his service to the country as well as to acknowledge the travesty of justice that he had endured.
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The political crisis began in March, sparked by Musharraf's support of a move from within his administration to dismiss the country's most senior judge, the chief justice of the Supreme Court, over allegations of misconduct, including nepotism.
However he acknowledged that Mr Peiris was the country's "de facto chief justice" and that the body would have to work alongside him in the future so it did not "let down" its clients, says the BBC's Charles Haviland in Colombo.
So I think the sooner the president gets this behind him, the better our country will be, our system of justice, the rule of law.
Critics of the government believe that its federal policy has more to do with divide-and-rule, and the allocation of national resources, than justice for the regions of the country.
"Local courts ensure easy and speedy access to justice across the country, " she said.
And they've been angered, particularly by Musharraf's attempts in March to kick out the chief justice of the country.
We can pray for the justice of our country, but you're the big players we need to achieve it.
The Additional Solicitor General of India, Indira Jaisingh, says the current rape laws in the country are far from adequate and the "process of justice delivery is too slow and the rate of conviction too low".
The death penalty, and the criminal justice and penal system in this country are weighted heavily against the poor and against minorities.
" 'At stake are not just the details of policy, but fundamental principles of social justice and the character of our country, ' " the president said, quoting the letter that Kennedy wrote in May and asked to be delivered after his death.
Restless after seven-and-a-half years of military rule a period during which the army's top brass has grown steadily more influential and wealthier the country's main opposition parties eagerly leaped onto the chief justice's bandwagon.
When the president pushed for crucial changes in foreign affairs or the judicial system whether to soften the anti-Americanism that distorts Iranian foreign policy or to clean up the country's arbitrary ways of handing out justice he was humiliatingly squashed by the dinosaurs.
Turkey's falling out with Israel has sparked a flurry of anguished commentary in the West about its supposed eastward drift under the mildly Islamist Justice and Development party, which has governed the country since 2002.
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Mr. JASPER: I think it's just another reflection of the disparities of justice in this country for black and white people.
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