Similarly, negligence claims are usually brought in the jurisdiction in which the treatment was provided and are therefore subject to the civil law procedures in that country.
The civil law governing these claims is rapidly changing, and that change is being driven by cases of historic sexual abuse and a growing awareness of the psychology of abusers and victims.
Thus, in the context of the "basic policies" and the Basic Law, the only occasion when the civil law concept of legislative interpretation is introduced is that as provided for in Article 158.
As this arrangement implies, there are big similarities between the precedent-based systems of law that prevail in the Anglophone world, and a wide difference between them and the civil-law tradition of continental Europe.
The film showed Muslims proclaiming their support for Islamic terror and for the replacement of civil law with Shari'a law - including the death penalty for adultery - throughout the Czech Republic.
However, distinction between interpretation and adjudication is not uncommon in the civil-law tradition.
The two factors most closely associated with higher liability costs are the number of lawyers and whether the country has a common-law system like the U.S., where judges decide much of the law governing liability or a civil law tradition, where the rules are set down in a relatively unchanging civil code.
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"I think that he has a thoughtful approach with balancing the needs for healthy law enforcement with the rights of civil liberties for law-abiding New York City residents, " Mr. Jeffries said.
Suu Kyi was awarded the honorary doctorate in civil law in April 1993, the university said, but until now has been unable to receive it in person.
So that is not being soft on terrorism, that is being tough about the framework of law and the civil liberties to which we're all entitled.
At issue, the article says, is that DCMA requirements under criminal law are different from the tests that apply under civil law.
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After the first post-dictatorship democratic elections in 1999, 12 of the northern Muslim states adopted sharia law, putting an enormous strain on the unity of a Nigerian state that had previously been run only under the secular, civil law bequeathed to it by British colonial rulers.
Mr. MARTIN: And we've got to be--speak truth to power, and that is the president has been pimping God with the faith-based initiative, because faith-based institutions have always been able to get federal dollars, except they had to abide by one very small, insignificant thing called the 1964 civil rights law.
Or if you get on the wrong side of the law or a civil suit, it may be the po-po or an opposing lawyer who come digging through your communications.
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Barbara Arnwine, executive director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law, and Ted Shaw, director-counsel and president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, I thank you both for joining us.
To advocate an open-ended qualification of the common-law system by introducing unspecified civil-law concepts is to betray the basic spirit and intent of the "basic policies" and the Basic Law.
Common sense and the principles of tort law in the American civil justice system are not always synonymous.
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Khalil al-Marzook, a senior Wefaq leader, was cautiously optimistic about the prince's comments on Friday but warned that "establishing the rule of law without civil and political rights is putting the horse before the cart".
It is inevitable, she argues, that under the "new constitutional order, " civil law concepts practiced in the rest of China should be absorbed by and form part of our legal system.
The primary source of harassment law is the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
On Monday, the inquiry published evidence from organisations including the Home Office, the Association of Police Authorities, the Police Federation, the Law Society and the civil rights group, Liberty.
On Tuesday, the group's president stressed that the proposed law change a civil institution and has nothing to do with the church.
In the UK civil liberty groups fear that the EU law will be used to help usher in another controversial law that also mandates data retention.
We honor the courageous men and women who fought to bring those ageless ideals of freedom and fairness into the rule of law -- from the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act to Title IX and the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Zimbabwe observes both civil law and traditional law, and the vast majority of women (except for white women and the few African women who marry under civil law) come under traditional law.
The decision goes to the heart of a big controversy in civil law: To what extent can the government be held liable for failing to protect citizens against risks that are conceivable, but expensive and burdensome to protect against?
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Earlier this year, David Yerushalmi, a litigator specializing in securities law and an expert on Shariah, produced a riveting legal memorandum (soon to appear in the University of Utah Law Review) examining the civil and criminal exposure inherent in Shariah-Compliant Finance.
Instead, he is suing to have the Texas civil asset forfeiture law struck down.
The land dispute itself is a matter of civil law, and many of the decisions may have been taken by junior officials.
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