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and functioning of courts of law competent disputes affecting private citizens” (Cadiet & Amrani-Mekki, 2008, p. 307). France’s legal system was mainly obtained from Roman law and is based on codified laws that were drafted in 1804 under Napoleon. The French legal system follows…

in the United States are authorized to prosecute crime regardless of the fact that they both have different court systems, criminal statutes, police agencies and prosecutors. While the federal systems oversees limited range of criminal cases for instance dealing with people accused of violating criminal laws of the national governments, state systems monitors the decision of lower courts within the…

Canada was the first nation in the world that adopted the concept of multiculturalism as an official policy. By doing so, the country acknowledged the importance in the value and dignity of all Canadian citizens regardless of their racial or ethnic background, their language or religious views (Canadian Multiculturalism and Inclusive Citizenship, 2012). With that being said, staffing appointments and recruitment performed in the federal public service needs to be based on the standard principle…

The role of the judiciary is to administer justice to all citizens and it comprises of courts that take decisions on a very large number of cases. Judicial independence is the keystone of Canadian judiciary. That is the reason, the judiciary is an independent from other branches of government, the executive and legislative. The main role of a judge is to interpret laws. Judicial independence means that, the other organs of the government must not restrain the functioning and should not interfere…

anomaly in a case decided in 2006 by the Supreme Court of Canada that served the Tsartlip appellants as individuals, not necessarily their band, and contravened by its conclusion in a majority vote in the Supreme Court a federal Canadian law. Section 27 of the Wildlife…

the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Court wrote the appellate court’s ruling for the en banc panel. ISSUE: Did the defendant and the co-defendants “exceed[ed] authorized access” under the CFAA when they used valid user names and passwords to gain…

freely goes hand in hand with the freedom to remain silent; you cannot have one without the other. Even though enforcing the Pledge violates the Constitution, court cases and debates are still held to argue over the political correctness of the pledge of allegiance. In the West Virginia State Board of Education versus Barnette court case, the court ruled that the enforcement of reciting the pledge in public schools “violated the First and Fourteenth Amendments”(The Pledge of Allegiance). The…

Based on “What of this Goldfish Would you Wish”, “The American Flag Stands for Tolerance”, and my own experience, our relationships with others define who we are by showing what we are passionate about. In “What of this Goldfish Would you Wish?” By. Etgar Keret Yoni, a young man is intrigued in making a documentary so he can knock on doors and ask people what they would wish for if they had three wishes from a magical goldfish. Yoni is interested to examine the different answers and to document…

of the courts, court procedures and the funding of legal aid. (Scottish Parliament Information Centre, 2014). In Scotland, there are 3 main types of civil courts, namely, the Sheriff Courts, Court of Session and since 2009 the UK Supreme Court. By far the most important and most widely used court in Scotland is the Sheriff Court. Since 1975, Scotland has been divided into 6 sheriffdoms with 142 sheriffs in post, there are currently 39 Sheriff Courts…

District of California seeking damages against Pandora Media Inc. (Pandora) for “publicly performing The Turtles’ pre-1972 sound recordings on its services without paying royalties.” The latest in a series of class actions filed in federal district courts in California, New York, and Florida by the former Turtles members against digital broadcasters Sirius XM Radio Inc. (Sirius) and Pandora, the suit alleges “that that these…