Substantive issues Right to equal treatment before the courts and tribunals, right to access to courts, right to have one's right determined without undue delay

C. Amicus curiae before international courts

Substantive issues Equality of arms in the courts

Worse, litigation in the Philippines takes at least five years on average to be concluded.

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

If the accused are convicted they will be sentenced.

Appeared before administrative tribunals on behalf of the Federal Government

Women lawyers are entitled to represent clients before courts and tribunals.

(a) suing or being sued and

She also wished to know whether the issue of the equal treatment of wives was justiciable before a family court.

During the same period, the Commission took 30 cases to court.

They may sue for damages before the civil courts.

Articles 15 and 16 Equality before the courts and before the law

Remedies for any violations of those rights were available through the courts.

In that case, the public prosecutor filed an extradition request with the courts, and extradition orders were granted at the courts' discretion.

She was able to challenge her detention before a court several times, but the courts did not find her detention unlawful.

They were also authorized to lodge appeals in respect of such complaints with the courts.

However any discriminatory action by the State, agents of the State or those acting on behalf of the State can be challenged in courts.

The proceedings in the domestic courts against the author's first lawyer were brought by the person acting as the author's representative before the Committee.

International instruments had been successfully invoked in two court cases.

The suspect was handed over to the national authorities, and the case is currently before the Liberian courts.

In total, 237 cases were supported in Court.

Women in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea were entitled to bring complaints before the courts.

Before domestic courts, each author's case was presented separately.

Nor, at the time, did he challenge the sufficiency of the record before the courts.

It further states that decisions ordering administrative detention can be challenged before the courts.

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

(b) The initiation of criminal proceedings, the prosecution of cases before the courts, and the filing of appeals against court judgements

4.5 Furthermore, the authors did not raise the issue of the length of the proceedings in the domestic courts and in particular before the Court of Cassation. In this regard, the State party recalls the Committee's decision on communication No.

Major traffickers never come to trial because judges are bribed or intimidated.

As Deputy Attorney General, had preferential right of audience in all courts and tribunals in Pakistan.

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

The principles of equal protection before the courts and under the law are respected within their legal systems

4.4 The State party contends that the author filed six different applications for review with the domestic courts and that all of these rejected her arguments.

(Remarkably, the Obama administration claims that veterans right to appeal to the courts should be restricted!)

Citizens have the right to appeal to the courts against the acts that violate their recognized rights as observed in the Constitution and law.

Furthermore, amendments to the Constitution had granted citizens the right to appeal to the Constitutional Court.

Canada funded court challenges programmes to test cases on equality, including those involving persons with disabilities.

Determined to make the accused pay for his indulgence', the women pursued their case in court.

Sanaa Youssef tweets her own arrest SanaaYoussef I have been arrested

2001 Role of the International Criminal Tribunals in the establishment of the responsibility before the justice and the Institution of the State of Right

It also states that the author at no point raised this issue before the domestic courts or the Canadian Judicial Council.

It adds that the Convention against Torture has been incorporated into domestic law and may be invoked directly before the courts and, if the complainant maintains that granting pardons violates the Convention, he should have put this argument to the Spanish courts.

While at times the prosecution was perceived as having more influence than the defence because of its status as representative of the State, they were considered equal before the courts and had equal rights to appeal any decision.

The Committee welcomes the assurance that the Covenant may be directly invoked before domestic courts in MSAR, and that there have been specific decisions of domestic courts in which reference has been made to the Covenant and its provisions.