The Lords overturned a judgment by Thomas Bingham, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, sitting as head of a three-judge panel in Britain's High Court.

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On Jersey, for instance, the Bailiff is both Jersey's chief judge, the speaker of its parliament and, in effect, its head of state.

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Sadoon Janabi, who represented Awad Hamad Bandar, the former chief judge of Hussein's Revolutionary Court, was kidnapped and fatally shot in the head October 20, a day after the trial began.

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