Sentences with jurist
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J j - Patrick Devlin was an outstanding judge and brilliant jurist.
- As long as they applied to newly appointed rather than currently sitting judges, the proposals could not be understood as unconstitutionally diminishing jurists ' salaries.
- In the present state of juristic opinion, I would not extend the doctrine of stare decisis any further.
- There was always a gap between the theoretical formulations of the jurists and the de facto exercise of political power.
- The new jurist, Superior Court Judge Trena Burger-Plavan, issued a ruling blocking the school district from moving ahead.
- The difficulty of determining whether a child was stillborn or murdered has confounded English lawmakers and jurists for centuries.
- Your Honour has an outstanding reputation as a jurist and someone who has already made a significant contribution to the law in Australia.
- Both aspects of the rule requires that the jurist be mindful of the general nature of the appeal.
- Today, supreme court jurists and Washington politicians display no embarrassment in citing Magna Carta to support their case.
- The competition is in memory of Manfred Lachs, the renowned Polish educator, diplomat, jurist and space law expert.
- With minimal direction given in statute, jurists wrote case law in response to specific claims brought before them.
- The position of the Federalist Party of President John Adams was that of the English jurist William Blackstone.
- And the Justices - who increasingly see themselves as part of an international community of high court jurists - may not have wished to remain too far out of step with their friends overseas.
- In fact, on the statue's plaque he's listed first as a jurist, and then as Premier.
- Your Honour comes to the Bench with an outstanding reputation as a jurist and as an academic.
- The Christian fundamentalist groups have made the nomination of ultra-right jurists to the Supreme Court their top priority.
- The bar voted not to co-operate with any of the new judicial structure, and the members of a commission of jurists set up by Lamoignon a few months beforehand to advise him on criminal law reform all resigned.
- There are, we think, four or perhaps five distinct juristic grounds for finding that a guarantor is released or discharged by virtue of the failure of another guarantor to become liable.
- Justices Breyer, Souter, and Ginsburg - all strong First Amendment jurists - will almost certainly favor the prompt judicial decision requirement.
- In that respect, he stands in a different juristic position, at least for international law purposes, than if the finding of him being a genuine refugee had not been made.
- Russia's highest court generally gives these jurists free rein.
- Interestingly, some jurists even asserted that judges who rely on a coerced confession in a criminal conviction are to be held liable for the wrongful conviction.
- Whereas international jurists worried about the damaging precedent the trial might set for international law, Arendt was more concerned about its effects on Israel's young democracy.
- I ask you how far would you appreciate a criminologist, a jurist or a legislator who proposes such measures of punishment which shall inevitably force man to commit more offences?
- Chthonic law can't be closed; the roman law of the jurists had no mechanism for radical change; hence no mechanism for anything as radical as closure.
- The jurist and tax expert Giulio Tremonti, finance minister in Berlusconi's first government, who now heads the combined ministry of economics and finances, is of the same making.
- Even if a judge believes that a brief offers a perfect expression of the law, copying it creates the perception that the jurist is sloppy, lazy, or intellectually moribund.
- In order for a finding of unjust enrichment, there must be a finding that the respondent was enriched to the applicant's detriment and there was no juristic reason for the enrichment.
- The definitions given by the Roman jurists are vague and inadequate but they put forth the idea of a legal science.