Search Results - subject:"PROSECUTION"

Woischnik, Jan (ed.) - 2017

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Judicial activism contributing to the understanding of social state principle(s) : Constitutional Court of Slovenia at the crossroads

Brezovar, Nejc - In: Danube : law and economics review 8 (2017) 1, pp. 19-30

The abstract nature of Constitutional principles, such as the social state principle, requires further interpretation to determine their concrete substance. Their realization is primarily the duty of politics and the legislator. Yet the Constitutional Courts can substantially contribute to...

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Ousted from the bench? : judicial departures in consolidating democracies

Llanos, Mariana; Heyl, Charlotte; Lucas, Viola; Stroh, … - 2017

This paper deals with judicial departures in consolidating democracies. It investigates to what extent and under what conditions judges in those contexts are not able to decide on their departures themselves but are rather forced to leave due to pressure from the elected branches. We undertook a...

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The independence of prosecutors and government accountability

Gutmann, Jerg; Voigt, Stefan - 2017

prosecutorial independence favors the prosecution of different types of public officials and this effect is conditional on the level …

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Utilising the judiciary to reject the popular will? : legal mobilization after the Arab uprising in Kuwait

Ishiguro, Hirotake - 2017

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Taking on the Boss : Informative Contests in Prosecutor Elections

McCannon, Bryan - 2017

The United States is unique in that most states select their prosecutors using popular election. An interesting feature of prosecutor elections is that the pool of potential challengers to an incumbent comes primarily from subordinates within the office. We develop a signaling model that...

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Gender disparities in criminal justice

Philippe, Arnaud - 2017

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Transparent selection of judges for EU courts : complaint to the European ombudsman

Eriksson, Anastasia; Li, Mingzhu; Shalaby, Omar; … - 2017

This complaint to the European Ombudsman by Access Info Europe and the HEC-NYU EU Public Interest Clinic alleges maladministration in the selection of judges for the Courts of Justice of the EU (CJEU). The complaint argues that the Council of Europe wrongly refused access to information on...

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Literacy Requirements of Court Documents : An Underexplored Barrier to Access to Justice

Salyzyn, Amy - 2017

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THE RIGHT OF THE INJURED PARTIES TO REPRESENT THEMSELVES INSTEAD OF BEING REPRESENTED BY A PROSECUTOR IN THE CRIMINAL PROCEDURE CODE OF HUNGARY

LASZLO, Fazsi - In: Curentul Juridic, The Juridical Current, Le Courant … 45 (2011) June, pp. 132-145

institution, the substitute private prosecution. The significance of this legal institute is that it can be considered as a … special solution for the question of controlling the activities of prosecution, which has been raised even in the … organizational conditions for the revision of the negative decisions of the prosecution, on the other, a chance of appeal to the …

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