The rule of law resolves conflicts by the due process of predictable law rather than favoring large established firms.
Leaving aside how little we still know of the details of BAE's business in Saudi Arabia, the awkwardness remains of the British government lecturing others on the rule of law and due process after Tony Blair's interference with the SFO's inquiry.
It depends on the freedom of citizens to speak their minds and assemble without fear, and on the rule of law and due process that guarantees the rights of all people.
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"It guarantees the right to due process of law, a fundamental principle of international criminal law, " Ms Fernandez said.
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On Monday, Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner called the agreement to set up a judicial commission "historic", saying it guaranteed "the right to due process of law, a fundamental principle of international criminal law".
Gross invasions of privacy such as urine testing, excessive property forfeitures and seizures without due process of law, the circulation of extensive government files on suspected drug offenders, and border patrols and checkpoints that inhibit free travel, all are among the draconian actions deemed necessary to wage the war on drugs.
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"The outright criminalization and ban of these firearms, ammunition and large capacity feeding devices amounts to a deprivation and taking of them by the State of New York under color of law and without due process or just compensation, " the claim said.
And, like all agencies, it may not arbitrarily or capriciously render determinations absent any evidence or explanation or by unexpectedly and inexplicably abandoning a prior position or policy, and it may not engage in the unconstitutional deprivation of property absent due process or the unconstitutional violation of the right to equal protection of the law.
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Its application is an affront to due process and the rule of law in this country.
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The Nigerian constitution calls for due process of law and equality among men and women, both of which are often not upheld in states where Sharia'ah has been implemented.
The requirement that a defendant be given adequate notice of what he is charged with carries constitutional dimensions and the failure to provide that notice violates due process of law.
The frightening answer is that like the proverbial 800-pound gorilla, the tribunal does pretty much whatever it wants, showing scant regard for fundamental fairness, due process of law, and the well-established rules and procedures that have evolved under the Constitution for citizens' protection.
What is surprising is how little respect global warming skeptics have for the rule of law, due process and the right to self-defense?
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Any thought that due process puts beyond the reach of the criminal law all individual associational relationships, unless accompanied by the commission of specific acts of criminality, is dispelled by familiar concepts of the law of conspiracy and complicity.
Under principles of due process, criminal laws must give people fair notice of conduct the law prohibits so that they can avoid stepping over the line.
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Yet few complained that the President, a former constitutional law professor, decided to treat Bin Laden to the accelerated due process of a bullet to the head rather than allow him to argue his case and subject his accusers to cross-examination.
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Rough police tactics, disregard for due process of law, use of the ISA - all this and more have created a sense of outrage.
Spielberg appeals to the rule of law and to the charms of political persuasion, while Tarantino leans instinctively away from due process, toward the flamboyance of revenge.
Among those guaranteed rights and privileges are: freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, due process and equal protection under the law, the right to privacy and the right to keep and bear arms.
And remember, we are talking about a commercial entity, not a court of law, so even having to use the phrase due process suggests that things are going wrong.
Four county residents filed suit to block the mosque in September 2010, arguing it posed a "risk of terrorism generated by proselytizing for Islam and inciting the practices of Sharia law" and that planning commissioners violated their due process rights.
Ordinary Americans have fought to fully realize that vision for more than two centuries, courageously forging a democracy that empowers each of us equally and affords every citizen due process under the law.
At the very least, some defendants may be deprived of their fundamental right to due process of law a problem whose immediacy may be best illustrated when compared to regimes without such protections for the criminally accused (a topic further explored below).
It's important to know that the law of war that they're talking about means no due process.
What I have said is that my administration is going to operate in a way that leaves no doubt that we do not torture, and that we abide by the Geneva Conventions, and that we observe our traditions of rule of law and due process, as we are vigorously going after terrorists that can do us harm.
At a minimum, Commerce should defer further decontrol action pending the outcome of a report required by law last year on the foreign availability process due to be submitted to the Congress on 15 April.
Like the decision to close Gitmo, which was announced without regard for the imperative of detaining committed jihadists, the decision to hold civilian trials for alien enemy combatants was made without regard for security, costs, the prospect of surrenderring national defense information to the enemy during wartime, or the betrayal of humanitarian law caused by rewarding the worst war criminals with gold-plated due process.
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But courts that respect the rule of law should refuse to enforce a judgment procured by fraud in a judicial system lacking due process and impartial judges.
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