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They may sue for damages before the civil courts.

It is unlikely that all the necessary information could be obtained outside national court proceedings.

Substantive issues Arbitrary detention right to take proceedings before court to challenge lawfulness of detention

Where courts and police are corrupt, over burdened and inefficient, basic civil rights will be violated.

According to the Courts Act, lay judges participate in the administration of justice in county and city courts on the bases and pursuant to the procedure provided by the codes of court procedure.

The Law on Family regulates the institution and the course of the court procedure for ensuring court protection in a regular civil law procedure, regardless of the fact whether a criminal procedure has been instituted against the perpetrator of the domestic violence.

The chief courts are the Court of Session, for civil cases, and the High Court of Justiciary, for criminal cases.

In addition to the information provided in the previous report, the Code of Civil Procedure clearly stipulates that all persons are equal before law and the court in the administration of justice in civil matters.

In the civil and legal affairs, women have the same rights in terms of legal and business capabilities, same conditions for the signing of contracts, management of property, participation in court and management procedures, whether they be the parties, plaintiffs, defendants or witnesses, proxies, or the parties' legal representatives.

The Civil Law Courts deal with all commercial, civil, and criminal cases, as well disputes related to the personal status of non Muslims.

In this context it is interesting to look at three examples of cases related to unreasonable delays in court proceedings and the conditions of detention

Most civil disputes appear before a State Court (Pengadilan Negeri) appeals are heard before the High Court (Pengadilan Tinggi).

6.3 The Committee observes that the State party confined itself to asserting that recent decisions by the courts permit the judicial review of pardons, and that the Convention against Torture can be invoked before the domestic courts it did not indicate what specific remedies were available to the complainant, nor what degree of judicial review pardons would be subject to.

Without properly functioning civil courts, there is no guarantee that innovative entrepreneurs can claim the rewards of their ideas.

It is also relevant to refer to the practice of courts in relation to claims concerning civil and political rights that carry resource implications.

The use of special courts or tribunals is also problematic because they often do not use the duly established procedures of the legal process.

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Noting that remedies through the courts tended to be expensive, he asked whether a legal aid system existed and whether out of court dispute settlement procedures existed and were used.

As the place of arbitration was in Germany, the refusal by the Polish Courts to enforce the award had no effect on the proceedings for the declaration of enforceability in Germany.

10.4 The parents who were parties to the domestic court proceedings are all individuals, and have a right to decide which international body to complain to.

One of the earliest conventions to simplify the procedure of Letters Rogatory was the 1905 Civil Procedure Convention, signed at The Hague.

Otherwise, court procedures may take a long time to resolve a case, and in this example it has taken quite a lengthy period.

So the Bush administration proposed a middle way a military commission under military judges, which would recognize fewer rights for the accused and bar appeals to civilian courts.

Opposition leaders also intend to debate such issues as the rights of women and minority groups, and the place of Shari a, the Islamic legal code, which has replaced civil courts in several northern states.

Whilst Nusra has avoided the strict imposition of Islamic law in areas where it has a presence, there has been popular opposition to the group due to its attempts to undermine local civil administrative structures, and its establishment of parallel structures such as Sharia courts.

With the creation of the new special courts, with civil and criminal jurisdiction, the judge will be endowed with greater competence to judge these cases, thereby facilitating women's access to justice and the resolution of conflicts.

Worrying signs are everywhere the authority of the courts is undermined, the independence of the Constitutional Tribunal is attacked, the civil service corrupted, and prosecutors are politicized.

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Since fewer than 10 per cent of judges were women, the Government was contemplating the introduction of a quota system to remedy that situation, particularly in the civil courts, which handled divorce cases.

We laud all the efforts of the two Tribunals in referring middle and low level cases to competent national jurisdictions and undertaking measures to build the local capacity of national courts.

Moreover, UNMISET civilian police advisers have provided close mentoring to the Capacity Building Unit, which has been drafting and reviewing the standard operating procedures of the national police.

In this context the Committee noted that the Draft Civil Service Code, which was in the process of adoption, contains a provision on non discrimination.

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This also exemplifies a situation where competition offenders can choose to cooperate with competition authorities to resolve cases without having to undergo rigorous court procedures.

10.2 On admissibility, the authors submit that the children were not formal plaintiffs before domestic courts because Norwegian civil procedure is based on the recognition of parents as legal representatives of their minor children.

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