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.
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.
However, distinction between interpretation and adjudication is not uncommon in the civil-law tradition.
"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.
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.
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.
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".
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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He told the BBC that he fully upheld the Church's position that the sexual abuse of children was a crime that should be dealt with "according to the requirements of civil criminal law and canon law".
But such talk failed even to reassure Arizona's own legislators, who moved last Friday--less than two weeks after the law was passed--to amend the law's more draconian provisions after civil rights groups threatened to sue on constitutional grounds.
Eddie Wise, who was arrested more than two dozen times while panhandling in the Bronx, was one of the original plaintiffs in a 2005 civil lawsuit aimed at the antibegging loitering law.
"The political foundations from Germany are making an important contribution to the development of democratic structures, the building of a state based on law and the encouragement of civil society, " CDU general secretary Hermann Groehe said in a statement.
The Constitution enshrines within the supreme law of the land key liberties: civil, economic, and social.
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This new policy deeply undermines the Obama administration's stated commitment to civil rights, equality before the law, and a much-needed effort to rebuild U.S.-Muslim world relations since the disastrous presidency of George W. Bush.
Ministers have identified limited access to the professions - such as law, medicine, the senior civil service, media, finance and the upper ranks of the Armed Forces - as a major obstacle.
Federal prosecutors are considering taking on the case as a possible civil-rights violation, and the family have a civil claim against the government for excessive use of force by law-enforcement officials.
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