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17 Nov 2022, 6:47 am by Mark Keenan
Savings, shares, and pensions – the full extent of these should be stated upfront. [read post]
9 Nov 2022, 8:14 pm
To further put it succinctly, this mandate was reflected even in the judiciary’s judgment in various cases, most significantly in Chang Liang Sang & Ors v Public Prosecutor [1982] 2 MLJ 231:other than in the most exceptional circumstances, a sentence of death should be imposed following a conviction for trafficking, in order to mark the gravity of the offence, to emphasise public disapproval, to serve as a warning to others, to punish the offender and most of all the protect the… [read post]
9 Oct 2022, 7:01 am by Farah Pandith, Jacob Ware
Often, the extremists themselves appeal to this narrative as they seek leniency and mercy for their actions. [read post]
30 Sep 2022, 7:00 pm
And the failures of the United States to protect its own story in its own way may well be quite costly--not in Russia, bit within those states in which the bacillus of Russian counter-storytelling can have debilitating effect on the American effort to promote a rules based international order in its own image. [read post]
26 Sep 2022, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
Most American judges, since they serve at the state level, are, as in my home state of Texas, elected, which horrifies many and serves, for others, only to make the politicized nature of appointment to the courts absolutely transparent. [read post]
29 Aug 2022, 5:00 am by The Petrie-Flom Center Staff
They are at the mercy of authority figures from multiple systems—the judiciary, government officials who oversee their day-to-day health, safety, and wellbeing, parents or legal guardians who may retain control over their bodily autonomy and decision making, and service providers who have access into the story of their lives. [read post]
14 Aug 2022, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
”This conception of clemency is continuous with a line of cases going back to the first United States Supreme Court case on clemency in 1833.That case, United States v. [read post]
4 Aug 2022, 9:00 am
Kim Jong Un registered shock at the request,  and Ayatollah Khamenei of Iran was supposedly driven to call Putin and ask for mercy on Griner's behalf. [read post]
Justice Gorsuch, in a dissenting opinion joined by Justice Sotomayor, expressed strong disagreement with the majority’s interpretation of Section 315(b) as “another step down the road of ceding core judicial powers to agency officials and leaving the disposition of private rights and liberties to bureaucratic mercy” (Thryv, Inc. v. [read post]
25 Jul 2022, 9:01 pm by Sherry F. Colb
These “pro-life” figures would, if they could, punish doctors in free states for helping women from reproductive servitude states to relieve their bodies of occupation by an unwanted biological process. [read post]