The Convention could be invoked directly in court proceedings.

Such treaties prevailed over national legislation and could be directly invoked in the courts.

She asked whether the Convention could be invoked in the constitutional court or other courts.

That provision, however, could not be invoked to establish a standing list of professions which excluded women.

Nor could the right to self determination be invoked to justify territorial expansion, through terrorism and violence.

She further makes claims that could be subsumed under article 7, even though this article is not specifically invoked.

Although the Committee accepted religious law as national law, no national law, be it religious or otherwise, could be invoked against international treaty law.

Proceedings in which State immunity cannot be invoked

It was unclear if it took precedence over the Constitution and domestic laws or even if it could actually be invoked by the courts.

No other legal provisions could be invoked to curtail those freedoms, and government interference in the activities of the media and censorship were prohibited by law.

According to the responses to the list of issues and questions, the Convention formed part of Paraguay's national legislation and could be invoked before the courts.

The responsibility of a State may not be invoked if

The enforcement court found that the lack of competence of the arbitral tribunal could not be invoked at the time of the recognition of the arbitral award.

This right may only be invoked by team in ball possession.

One delegation suggested adding a second paragraph whereby apparently legal deprivation of liberty that was in fact illegally motivated could not be invoked to justify an enforced disappearance.

Extradition could certainly be refused if there was a serious possibility that the person in question would be tortured in the requesting State as indicated in the report, there was no law on the matter, but the relevant norms of international law could be invoked.

There might be logistical problems, or upcoming elections or other reasons might be invoked.

She therefore wondered whether the State party could provide any information regarding cases in which the Convention had been invoked.

The Covenant must be a respected and free standing international instrument in the eyes of Icelandic society, one which could be invoked without necessarily being associated with the European Convention on Human Rights.

It is a fact that Article 50 of the Charter cannot be easily invoked.

Nevertheless, the vital force continued to be invoked to explain organic chemistry in Bird's time.

Concerning the Code of Criminal Procedure, bank secrecy may not be invoked before a court.

One delegation proposed adding new text to paragraph 2 to establish that an order from a superior or a public authority could not be invoked as a justification of enforced disappearance unless the accused did not know that the order was illegal, or could not reasonably be expected to do so.

She would also like to know whether the Convention was considered to have higher status than domestic law and could be directly invoked before the courts, or whether its provisions were enforceable under domestic legislation.

However, it points out that no exceptional circumstances whatsoever may be invoked as a justification of torture.

Sixth, it is necessary to prevent a situation whereby silence on the part of the Russian Federation could be invoked against it in the future as a tacit acceptance of or acquiescence in the claims of Turkmenistan.

2. In any case, necessity may not be invoked by a State as a ground for precluding wrongfulness if

An order from a superior officer or a public authority may not be invoked as a justification of torture.

Big Brother is invoked in stories about Internet censorship.

Anecdotal evidence suggests that it is not invoked frequently.

There is a grave concern that the concept of responsibility to protect could be invoked by certain countries to pursue their own political agenda and that, through that idea, some parts of the world may become potential theatres for their intervention.

( They will be told ) ( The cause of your present state is that ) when Allah alone was invoked , you disbelieved and when others instead of Him were invoked , you believed . Today all judgement lies with Allah , the Most High , the All Great .

No order or instruction from any public authority, civilian, military or other, may be invoked to justify an enforced disappearance.

The provisions of the Anti Money Laundering Act (2005) pertaining to the freezing of assets are yet to be invoked.

However, it points out that there are no exceptional circumstances of any kind which may be invoked to justify torture.

But, as with rebus sic stantibus, it is submitted that the impossibility doctrine must be invoked it is not automatic.

And when the people are gathered that Day , they who were invoked will be enemies to them , and they will be deniers of their worship .

And when the people are gathered that Day , they who were invoked will be enemies to them , and they will be deniers of their worship .

International instruments had been successfully invoked in two court cases.

No such element has been invoked in the instant case.

However it does not seem that it is frequently invoked.

They could be communist, they could be liberal, they could be fascist or Islamic.

So he invoked his Lord , Indeed , I am overpowered , so help .

So he invoked his Lord , Indeed , I am overpowered , so help .

2. No order or instruction from any public authority, civilian, military or other, may be invoked to justify an offence of enforced disappearance.