In June, 2008 he signed a set of judicial reforms to improve national security.

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Mr Bastrykin is positioning himself to lead a new, stronger unified investigative body that may emerge after further judicial reforms.

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Mr Erdogan is talking of judicial reforms to blunt the board's powers.

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Indeed, in its economic, political and judicial reforms, Turkey is in many ways ahead of Romania, which is hoping to join in 2007.

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Bersani's platform included judicial reforms that reverse legislation passed when Berlusconi held office, including expanding statutes of limitations on financial crimes and stripping political leaders of immunity.

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Foreign ambassadors, from the United States, Britain, France and elsewhere, have queued up in recent months to call for the judicial reforms needed to attract much-needed foreign investment.

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But if Egypt's upper house succeeds in pushing through judicial reforms favored by Islamists coupled with Mr. Morsi's plans to shake-up his cabinet, it could pave the way for a more pliant political system for the president.

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Mr Kejriwal's party promises an independent and powerful ombudsman to punish graft (essential, though there are concerns that it could become a bloated, Kafkaesque anti-corruption bureaucracy), and sweeping electoral, police and judicial reforms (all of which India desperately needs, but reforms that politicians seem to be averse to), among other things.

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IMF, castigated for the largesse of its predecessors and unrewarded for its own political, judicial and financial reforms.

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Berlusconi has indicated that he does not agree with Bersani's judicial and criminal reforms and that he would not work with the center-left as long as those items are on the agenda.

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Judicial and administrative reforms are urgently needed.

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And reforms of the judicial system, though blocked at the federal level, are slowly proceeding state by state.

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The constitutional changes cover inter alia military, judicial and indigenous-rights reforms.

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Mr Grayling said these were "straightforward procedural reforms" and that judicial reviews "should be used by people who have carefully considered whether they have proper grounds to challenge a decision".

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