Opponents of the St Dennis plan have been through every judicial process permitted by the courts.

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But Dr Reid stepped down from judicial office on 7 December before the disciplinary process by the Office for Judicial Complaints was formally concluded.

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Under the agreement, the EU would have one judge on the bench of the court, and 18 MEPs would take part in the judicial selection process overseen by the Council of Europe's parliamentary assembly.

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The decision - a preliminary step in the French judicial process - was made by two examining judges, pursuing a series of related corruption cases, who questioned him at his home near Bordeaux in southwest France.

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News Corp. or BSkyB could apply for "judicial review, " the process by which U.K. courts review the decisions of public bodies.

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Members of the jury pool were sent home after the Maine Supreme Judicial Court stopped the closed process in response to a constitutional challenge by the Portland Press Herald.

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While welcoming the announcement, he told the BBC that other severance payments to staff made through a different process, known as judicial mediation, may not be covered by the new rules.

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The culture secretary said he accepted that the "volume and tone" of emails and text messages sent by Mr Smith "were clearly not appropriate in a quasi-judicial process".

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It said the decision to extradite had been made following a report by a Tunisian delegation to Tripoli, which found that the conditions for a fair judicial process had been met.

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