Another, much-ignored aspect of the TBTF ambiguity is the fact that the U.S. since 1934 has granted a general immunity from bankruptcy to financial institutions.
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First Thomas Bingham, the Lord Chief Justice, found that the general enjoyed absolute immunity for any crime.
Britain's implementation of the Torture Convention removed General Pinochet's immunity in Britain for torture committed in Chile, they agree, but only after December 1988.
The Lord Advocate accepted that it would be appropriate to disclose the document but also recognised that the Advocate General was entitled to claim immunity.
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The court set an astronomically high bar for prosecutors to clear in bringing a case against anyone who has given immunized testimony, which is why Attorney General Janet Reno politely dismissed the immunity idea just as soon as Glenn suggested it.
The necessary business of Realpolitik would be protected by the rules of diplomatic immunity (which Britain says the general did not enjoy) that exist for expressly that purpose.
But General Pinochet's lawyers argued that, if his immunity bid failed, he could be extradited only if the acts of which he was accused were a crime in both countries at the time they were committed, not at the time of the extradition request.
Even two judges who earlier ruled in General Pinochet's favour on head-of-state immunity briefly considered this extradition argument and rejected it.
Whereas adaptive immunity is thought to be a response to specific bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites, innate immunity has always been seen as the body's general response to all threats of disease.
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UN's secretary-general, Kofi Annan, affirming Mr Cumaraswamy's role and his immunity from prosecution under existing conventions.
Chile's Supreme Court was reported to have voted to strip General Augusto Pinochet , the country's former dictator, of his immunity from prosecution.
Foes of General Augusto Pinochet rejoiced that Britain's Law Lords rejected his claims to immunity from extradition.
Concerned as much about these cases as about General Pinochet's fate, the armed forces also think this amnesty should mean immunity from charges, as the dictatorship intended, rather than the courts' present interpretation of immunity only from punishment.
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