The paper deals with the implementation of international standards for protection individual rights in criminal proceedings consolidated decisions judicial and quasi-judicial intergovernmental human bodies. author gives a characteristic main stages interaction legal system Russian Federation standards, perceived through practice ECHR. examines features execution ECHR acts after withdrew from Co...

Not too many years ago, scholars could reasonably speak of the U.S. Supreme Court as being among the most activist in American history. Both empirical and normative scholarship was driven by the sense of a Court that was aggressive in the assertion of its own supremacy and active in the exercise of the power of judicial review. The Court under Chief Justice John Roberts cannot be viewed in the ...

The judiciary needs to be independent of outside influence, particularly from political and economic powers. But judicial independence does not mean that judges and court officials should have free rein to behave as they please. Indeed, judicial independence is founded on public trust, and to maintain it, judges must uphold the highest standards of integrity. This chapter focuses on the account...

This article examines the impact of the New York court decision, Rivers v. Katz, which in June 1986 dramatically changed the state procedure for responding to involuntarily committed psychiatric patients who formally refused psychopharmacologic treatment. The court rejected the medically administered review process that had been used to respond to involuntarily committed psychiatric patients wh...

The adjudication process is a central part of the overall personal rights injunction process. procedure for personality injunctions includes commencement proceedings, jurisdiction case, manner hearing, content hearing and standard review, as well making ruling on injunction, other specific elements. Among them, clarification application conditions examination criteria pivotal to correct injunct...

This thesis examines the factors that influence perceptions of judicial corruption. A statistical analysis using data from such sources as Transparency International, the World Bank, and Freedom House demonstrates that aspects of accountability (the ability to remove judges) and transparency (freedom of the press) are only weakly related to perceptions of judicial corruption. A systematic count...