The corporation becomes its own judge and jury, and it gets to pick its own scapegoat.
In the States on Tuesday, Mr Higgins said the scheme's lawyers "appeared to be acting as judge and jury".
"The judge and jury believed Saldate, " said Kozinski of the verdict and sentence.
Where do we derive the laws that the court system hews to, and how do we determine who is judge and jury?
"The council have been promoting this for the past 18 months and last night they were the judge and jury, " he said.
Successive education ministers have found themselves having to act as judge and jury in determining whether local school reorganisations should go ahead or not.
Chris Tapp, of Botley Parish Action Group, said he was "very disappointed" at the decision saying the council had acted as "judge and jury".
The man accused of murdering Milly Dowler joined the trial judge and jury in the street in Surrey where she vanished "in the blink of an eye".
The Commissioner is for practical purposes the judge and jury.
He said there was no reason to suppose that criminal proceedings, whether before a judge or a judge and jury would be compromised by the showing of the programme.
Unless the entire judge and jury was at the scene of the crime as it was happening there is no way anyone can be 100% certain of what happened.
It didn't help that the trial had initially been delayed by a bomb threat, as well as the impaneling of a new judge and jury for reasons that remain hazy.
But a smart lawyer, a sympathetic victim, and a complex medical case can easily confuse both judge and jury, leading to enormous jury awards regardless of what the scientific evidence shows.
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He's expected to be open with judge and jury.
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This question was left unresolved, with the two journalists present fearing the possibility of a cynical public reaction to the Met Office being considered judge and jury and the scientists considering this fear rather silly.
Yeah, I mean I think that one of the reasons why people are so angry about all these revelations about MP's expenses is that they feel powerless, and they now think that MP's are going to act as judge and jury on their own failings.
Then if, and I it is a big if, a judge and jury can be shown that the relative importance of the MGT patent to casino operations is proportionally much greater than that of Vringo patent to Google, maybe the royalty could be more significant.
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"We believe Rembrandt's patents represent an important foundation of social media as we know it, and we expect a judge and jury to reach the same conclusion based on the evidence, " said lawyer Tom Melsheimer from legal firm Fish and Richardson, which represents the patent holder.
And some people feel that with its new functions, the FSA will have too much power, and will act as 'judge, jury and executioner.
He wrote the rules, adjudicated the validity of claims and approved all financial payments: he was judge, jury and exchequer.
The judge, jury and lawyers for the prosecution and defence will visit Domachevo next week.
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In this case, the 16 member Expansion Era Committee will serve as judge, jury and executioner.
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Mr Kanyare's solicitor, Paul Harris, paid tribute to both Judge Beaumont and the jury for the "scrupulously fair way" they had reached the conclusion of the highly complex case.
"For anyone to take it upon himself to be judge, jury and executioner is nothing but sheer evil, " said Karen Swallow Prior, who is running for lieutenant governor of New York on the ticket of the anti-abortion Right-to-Life Party.
But other extradited Britons - including so-called NatWest Three banker David Bermingham, who was jailed for 37 months over an Enron-related fraud in a plea deal four years ago - have claimed the system empowers prosecutors as "judge, jury and executioner".
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