In a letter to the prime minister on Saturday, shadow culture secretary Ivan Lewis asks for "immediate discussions so that by the end of the day we are in a position to agree the appointment of the judge" to head one of the independent inquiries into the scandal.
The Lords overturned a judgment by Thomas Bingham, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, sitting as head of a three-judge panel in Britain's High Court.
Until a few days ago, the head of the court system was Judge Calvin Johnson.
The letters allow the FBI to get data on phone, financial and electronic records without the approval of a judge or grand jury, as long as the head of an FBI field office certifies that the records would be relevant to a counterterrorism investigation.
The President of Uganda appointed a well-respected judge of the High Court of Uganda to head a Commission of Inquiry to conduct and independent investigation into the disappearance of the two men.
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Instead, the might-have-been prime minister and head judge became simply a member of the great and the good.
With a nod of his head, Mr Bemba acknowledged the judge's welcome to him, and through his lawyer, he proceeded to plead not guilty to all five charges against him.
Justice Goldstone, the head of the Fact Finding Mission and a former judge of the South African Constitutional Court, is also a former Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.
For example, in 2001 Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzon agreed to become honorary head of a group promoting the ICC.
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Even Florida judge Charles Burton, the long-suffering head of the Palm Beach canvassing board, flew up to see the show.
Leonard Rubin, head of intellectual property for Gordon and Glickson in Chicago, said that Judge Patel's request to distinguish between the copyrighted titles and those not owned by the music labels traditionally holds a fair amount of merit in similar types of cases.
Michael Cardozo, head of the city's Law Department, said city lawyers disagree with the judge's ruling and her assertion that there are "systematic flaws" in the program.
The head of Cuba's parliament, Ricardo Alarcon, told the Associated Press the federal judge in Texas had prevented jurors from seeing evidence that would have convinced them of his guilt.
On Jersey, for instance, the Bailiff is both Jersey's chief judge, the speaker of its parliament and, in effect, its head of state.
Council of State president and judge Panagiotis Pikrammenos has been sworn in as interim prime minister to head a government until the elections next month.
Patrick Lynch, head of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, the department's largest union, applauded the sentence from the judge, saying it sent a clear message that killing an officer would not be tolerated in New York City.
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