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| | High Court of Justice - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Her Majesty's High Court of Justice (usually known more simply as the High Court) is, together with the Crown Court and the Court of Appeal, part of the Supreme Court of England and Wales: see Courts of England and Wales. | | | Appeal from the High Court in civil matters lies to the Court of Appeal and thence to the House of Lords. | | | In addition, the Divisional Court of the Division hears appeals on points of law from magistrates' courts and from Crown courts which have heard appeals from magistrates' courts (see UK Court System for an explanation of these courts). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Court_of_Justice
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| | ADMIRALTY, HIGH COURT OF - Online Information article about ADMIRALTY, HIGH COURT OF |
| | Complaints of encroachment of jurisdiction by the Admiralty Courts led to the restraining acts, 13 Ric. | | | procedure as that used by the courts of common law. | | | In 1875, by the operation of the Judicature Acts of 1873 and 1875, the High Court of Admiralty was with the other great courts of England formed into the High Court of Justice. |
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http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/ADA_AIZ/ADMIRALTY_HIGH_COURT_OF.html
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| | High Court of Justice -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | It has a Crown Court for criminal cases and a High Court of Justice for civil cases. | | | Above these is the Court of Appeal, which receives cases from both of the other courts. | | | More from Britannica on "High Court of Justice"... |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9040399
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| | MISHPAT- ENGL-RASHUT-Maarechet |
| | appellate court and the High Court of Justice, is normally constituted of a panel of three justices. | | | One Supreme Court justice alone may rule on interim orders, temporary orders or petitions for an order nisi, and on appeals on interim rulings of District Courts, or on judgments given by a single District Court judge on appeal, and on a judgment or decision of the Magistrates’ Courts. | | | In a matter on which the Supreme Court has ruled - whether as a court of appeals or as the High Court of Justice - with a panel of three or more justices, it may rule at a further hearing with a panel of a larger number of justices. |
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http://elyon1.court.gov.il/eng/rashut/maarechet.html
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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - High Court of Justice |
| | High Court of Justice, in England and Wales, the highest court of first instance, that is, the court that decides cases rather than appeals. | | | Courts : pictures related to courts: Daumier on Justice | | | Several specialized courts exist to try crimes of a political nature, should they arise. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/High+Court+of+Justice.html
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| | BBC - The Law Jargon Buster - H |
| | The High Court of Justiciary is the highest criminal court in Scotland, and deals with serious crimes not processed by the Sheriff's Courts. | | | The High Court is part of the Supreme Court in England and Wales that deals with matters of civil law including family, property and business disputes. | | | The High Court sits in several large towns and cities around Scotland, and has a similar role to the Crown Court in England and Wales. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/crime/law/jargonbuster_h.shtml
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| | B'Tselem - The Seperation Barrier - Judgment of the High Court of Justice in Beit Sourik |
| | B'Tselem - The Seperation Barrier - Judgment of the High Court of Justice in Beit Sourik | | | Judgment of the High Court of Justice regarding Beit Sourik | | | Thus, the High Court did not examine the effect of this illegal action on the legitimacy of the considerations underlying construction of the barrier. |
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http://www.btselem.org/English/Separation_Barrier/Beit_Surik_Ruling.asp
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| | Justice B K Roy Appointed Sikkim High Court Chief Justice - News.Indlaw.com |
| | He was appointed as the Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana High Court on October 14,2002 and was transferred as Chief Justice of the guwahati High Court on February 4 this year. | | | The President, in consultation with the Chief Justice of India has transferred Guwahati High Court Chief Justice Binod Kumar Roy as the Chief Justice of the Sikkim High Court, official sources said. | | | Judge Appointed to The Sikkim High Court (29/09/2004) |
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http://www.indlawnews.com/FE5A7898A962DCA41D2EE5476CBB56DA
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| | Litigating Torture in the Israeli High Court of Justice |
| | The case goes to oral argument in front of the High Court where the government presents a secret file to the court to justify its actions. | | | If the defense attorney refuses to allow the High Court to see the secret evidence, then the court takes on the assumption that the government is justified and does not issue the order nisi and closes the case. | | | The Israeli High Court of Justice: The Ghanimat Case |
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http://internationalstudies.uchicago.edu/torture/abstracts/allegrapacheo.html
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| | Jurisdictional Functions - High Court of Cassation and Justice of Romania |
| | The Statute and the role of the High Court of Cassation and Justice shall be further adapted to the legal modifications and improvements in correlation with the achievements of the other national supreme courts and the European Court of Strasbourg. | | | In a larger sense, the High Court of Cassation and Justice, according provisions of the Constitution and of its own organic law has in view the correct and unitary application of laws by all the other courts: courts of first instance, Tribunals and Courts of Appeal. | | | The High Court of Cassation and Justice is reunited in Joint Sections for: |
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http://www.scj.ro/monogr_en.asp
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| | CBS News Court Sidesteps Cheney Ruling June 25, 2004 00:20:05 |
| | Justices said 7-2 that a lower court should consider whether a federal open government law could be used to get documents of the task force. | | | It was issued on the two-year anniversary of the Supreme Court's ruling that the constitutional right to a trial by jury means that jurors should weigh factors that determine whether a particular killing merits death or life in prison. | | | High Court Justice, VP Go Hunting; Cheney Appeal Is Before The Court |
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/02/05/politics/main598159.shtml
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| | Bellinger v. Bellinger (High Court) |
| | A powerful criticism of Corbett is to be found in the judgment of Ellis J of the High Court of New Zealand in Attorney General v Otahuhu Family Court [1995] 1 NZLR 603. | | | The court had to consider a petition for nullity based on the incapacity of the wife to consummate the marriage. | | | The decision of the court was made on the 30th July 1998 and the court observed 'that the UK had not kept the need for appropriate legal measures in this area under review'. |
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http://www.pfc.org.uk/legal/bellngr1.htm
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| | IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE CASE NO |
| | The duty is owed to the court and to all the parties to a case. | | | court that solicitors act as agents for their clients and not as principal (page 20). | | | The jurisdiction is used to penalise those whose conduct of litigation has been "improper, unreasonable or negligent" as a result of which loss has been caused to a party to the litigation. |
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http://www.lbduk.org/RCJ%20statement-property.htm
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| | High Court of Australia - Justices - Justice Kirby |
| | High Court of Australia - Justices - Justice Kirby | | | Michael Donald Kirby was appointed to the Court in February 1996. | | | In 1983 he became a judge of the Federal Court of Australia, serving on that Court until 1984. |
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http://www.hcourt.gov.au/kirbyj.htm
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| | High court justice accused of conflict |
| | The state's top trial lawyers helped fund the campaigns of the Supreme Court justices ruling on the other side of the State Farm and Phillip Morris cases. | | | But the trial lawyers already made those same arguments before Karmeier when he was getting set to rule on the cases and he found himself eligible to hear the cases. | | | Some $350,000 came from State Farm employees, lawyers or others connected to State Farm, including $1,000 from Edwards B. Rust, State Farm's chairman and CEO and a witness at the trial, the complaint states. |
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http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-supreme08.html
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| | The High Court of Justice |
| | The Chief Justices Henry Rolle and Oliver St John refused to serve on the High Court and most of the lawyers nominated as Commissioners also withdrew. | | | The court specially convened in January 1649 to conduct the trial of King Charles I. | | | Parliamentary Act setting up the High Court of Justice [offsite] |
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http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/glossary/high-court-justice.htm
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| | Her Majesty's Courts Service - Home |
| | We are responsible for the administration of the civil, family and criminal courts in England and Wales. | | | Her Majesty's Courts Service brings together on 1st April 2005 the Magistrates' Courts Service and Court Service into one single organisation for the first time. | | | Notice to all Commercial and Admiralty Court users |
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http://www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk
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| | DOGS HIGH COURT CASE SECTION 116 JUSTICE MURPHY'S DISSENTING JUDGEMENT |
| | Chief Justice Warren in delivering the opinion of the Court in McGowan v. | | | The Court of Appeals held that the Providence Hospital, to which moneys were paid by the United States Government under contract, was a secular corporation (even though operated by Roman Catholics) and that the moneys were "not a subsidy or a gift of money, but compensation for actual services to be rendered" (p.47 1). | | | [T]he settled doctrine of the [High] Court is that [Convention debates] are not available in the construction of the Constitution. |
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http://www.adogs.info/section_116_murphy_judgement.htm
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| | Rehnquist shaped high court conservatism - The Changing Court - MSNBC.com |
| | At age 47, in October 1971, Rehnquist was nominated to the court by President Nixon, and was sworn in on Jan. 7, 1972. | | | The alleged rape victim in that case could seek redress in state courts, but not in federal court, Rehnquist and the majority said. | | | Writing for the court in the Lopez case, Rehnquist said Congress could not use the Constitution's Commerce Clause — the basis of its power to regulate interstate commerce — to justify a law which made it a federal offense to possess a firearm within 1,000 feet of a school. |
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5304454
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| | The High Court of Justice |
| | As the HCJ, it deals with matters involving issues of justice which do not fall under the jurisdiction of any other court. | | | In the first stage of the deliberation a HCJ justice decides whether there is any prima facie basis for the petition. | | | After the substantial deliberation on the petition, the HCJ decides whether the order nisi should be made absolute or whether the petition should be rejected. |
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http://www.knesset.gov.il/lexicon/eng/bagatz_eng.htm
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| | Isle of Man Government - Legal System |
| | The Island's High Court judges are the two Deemsters (a term dating from Viking times), who have jurisdiction over all the criminal and civil matters that in England would fall under the High Court, County Court and Crown Court. | | | The Island has its own lay magistrates (similar to their English counterparts) and also two stipendiary magistrates (the High Bailiff and Deputy High Bailiff) who also act as coroners of inquests and preside over the licensing court. | | | Organised into partnerships, Manx advocates perform a wide range of work and have an exclusive right of audience in the Island's courts (although English barristers can be licensed to appear in certain cases). |
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http://www.gov.im/IsleOfMan/legalsystem.xml
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| | High Court of Australia - Justices - Chief Justice Gleeson |
| | High Court of Australia - Justices - Chief Justice Gleeson | | | Anthony Murray Gleeson was appointed Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia in May 1998. | | | At the time of his appointment he was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, having been appointed to that office in November 1988. |
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http://www.hcourt.gov.au/gleesonj.htm
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| | Legal Threat |
| | Undertakings given to the Court by the Plaintiff | | | Contempt of Court and may be sent to prison or fined or your assets may | | | We will be challenging the injunction in the High Court on Monday, 23 June 1997. |
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http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~dlheb/legal1.htm
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| | Law.com - Calif. High Court Confirms Justice Corrigan |
| | Corrigan's first oral arguments on California's Supreme Court come up Tuesday when the court will take on issues involving alleged discrimination against gays and atheists by Berkeley's Sea Scouts and a case involving nonprofit agencies' rights to practice law. | | | Law.com - Calif. High Court Confirms Justice Corrigan | | | Corrigan also said that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who nominated her to the Supreme Court on Dec. 9, had not asked her anything "that looked like a litmus test of any kind" on touchy topics when interviewing her. |
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http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1136455510327&rss=newswire
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| | Scalia assails ‘flexible’ Constitution: High court justice speaks to packed U. of Missouri hall |
| | Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia last night criticized a perspective that has swept through courts, law schools and the public during the past 50 years - that the Constitution is a living document evolving with society. | | | But the Court gives a second and independent reason for invalidating this humane (not to say anti-barbarian) law: That it fails to allow an exception for the situation in which the abortionist believes that this live-birth method of destroying the child might be safer for the woman. | | | If only for the sake of its own preservation, the Court should return this matter to the people–where the Constitution, by its silence on the subject, left it–and let them decide, State by State, whether this practice should be allowed. |
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http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3bf42a831b3a.htm
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| | NPR : Georgia High Court Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears |
| | Georgia High Court Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears | | | NPR : Georgia High Court Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears | | | She's the first African-American woman chief justice in the country. |
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4781681&sourceCode=RSS
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Sacra Romana Rota |
| | Other officers are a promotor of justice, corresponding to the pubblico ministero in modern Italian civil courts, and, for cases relating to matrimony, religious profession and sacred ordination, a defender of the bond (defensor vinculi), who may have a substitute. | | | The Rota therefore tries in the first instance the cases, including criminal cases, which the pope, either motu proprio or at the request of the contesting parties, calls up for his own judgment and commits to the Rota; it decides these cases even in the second and third instance. | | | Each auditor chooses an assistant, who must be a doctor of canon law, and whose selection must be approved by the pope. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13205c.htm
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| | Israel - High Court Of Justice Decision supporting Denial of Press Card for Security Reasons |
| | The court suggested to the appellant that it examine the intelligence material that served as a basis for the respondent's refusal but he rejected the proposal and asked that the court render its decision without examining the security information which the State was attributing to the appellant. | | | The Court sees no reason to suspect that the assumption of capacity does not hold or that the respondent is scheming against the appellant for non-substantive reasons; such a claim has not been made before the court. | | | The State, for its part, announced that it was prepared to present the information to the court provided, of course, that the appellant agreed. |
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http://www.kokhavivpublications.com/2002/israel/10/0210311345.html
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| | IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE |
| | MR JUSTICE GRAY: I totally accept that this is a very important judgment for you personally, that is often the way, of course, with litigation, but it also does have a public interest element. | | | MR JUSTICE GRAY: --- even if you have to ask for further time from the Court of Appeal for the supply of your reasons for asking for permission. | | | That is really a matter in the end for the Court of Appeal. |
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http://www.mishcon.co.uk/inp/inp_a/inp_a_pr/judgment.htm
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| | Cotler confirms federal support for same-sex marriages Planned legislation only awaits high-court approval, Justice ... |
| | The court is being asked four questions in the reference. | | | While the court typically takes six to eight months to render difficult or significant judgments, this can vary substantially in a given case. | | | The reference came about after three provincial appellate courts -- in Ontario, B.C. and Quebec -- struck down a common-law definition of marriage as being the union of a man and a woman. |
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http://www.workopolis.com/servlet/Content/fasttrack/20041006/SAMESEX06?section=Legal
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| | Las Vegas SUN: Nevada high court justice won't seek second term |
| | Nevada high court justice won't seek second term | | | The case, filed by 24 Republican state lawmakers and others, stems from a battle over record tax increases and the court ruling that an "irreconcilable conflict" existed between two constitutional mandates to fund public schools and to require a two-thirds vote on any tax increases - and schools came first. | | | Agosti scheduled a Thursday news conference at her office in Carson City, where she was expected to cite health issues as her reason for not seeking a second six-year term on the state's highest court. |
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http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nevada/2004/apr/14/041410120.html
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| | IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE Nos 556 and 557 of 2004 |
| | It is possible that, in relation to either of the companies, the court will decide that it has jurisdiction but that the case for placing the company in administration has not been made out. | | | Thus the court has before it ample material on which to decide whether the purpose of an order is reasonably likely to be achieved. | | | As appears from expert evidence in the case, if the assistance of a United States court in the liquidation becomes necessary, this can be obtained by commencing a suit ancillary to the English winding-up proceedings. |
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http://www.rws-verlag.de/volltext-2004/ci4net.htm
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| | IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE |
| | The considerations that we have had in mind in not granting a stay with regard to the documents already in the hands of the Secretary of State or SFO are these. | | | (a) from a court or tribunal exercising criminal jurisdiction in a country or territory outside the United Kingdom or a prosecuting authority in such a country or territory; or | | | First, the high likelihood, as we see it, that even were the House of Lords to grant leave to appeal here, that appeal will fail and the certified points of law be decided as we have decided them. |
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http://www.lospettro.it/dossierberlusconi.htm
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| | NPR : Roberts Confirmed as 17th High Court Chief Justice |
| | Roberts Confirmed as 17th High Court Chief Justice | | | NPR : Roberts Confirmed as 17th High Court Chief Justice | | | Revisit some of the year's most compelling stories and interviews. |
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4929127&ft=1&f=17
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| | High Court of Justice - Chancery Division |
| | Several points of law alone are worthy of attention by the European Court of Justice (e.g. | | | And although the Court of Appeal reversed his overall decision, there was no consideration of this point. | | | Ultimately the question of the extent to which national trade mark law is permitted to impinge on trade within other countries may have to be considered by the European Court of Justice. |
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http://www.courtservice.gov.uk/judgmentsfiles/j84/Euro_mark.htm
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| | WOAI: San Antonio News - Bush promises new High Court justice Americans "can be proud of" |
| | However, Bush says he's hoping a new justice can be confirmed in time for the opening of the new court term in October. | | | Bush promises new High Court justice Americans "can be proud of" | | | WOAI: San Antonio News - Bush promises new High Court justice Americans "can be proud of" |
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http://www.woai.com/news/national/story.aspx?content_id=6C7B3AEE-0573-4E66-AF78-8573FF01DA14
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| | JS Online: Former high court justice appointed to Crandon case |
| | Former high court justice appointed to Crandon case | | | JS Online: Former high court justice appointed to Crandon case | | | Dane County Reserve Judge P. Charles Jones had set a hearing for Friday at the Forest County Courthouse on various motions in the lawsuit, including one by the town to dismiss it and one by the mining company seeking summary judgment that would resolve the dispute without a trial. |
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http://www.jsonline.com/news/state/aug00/mine11081000a.asp
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| | High Court of Justice 2002 |
| | that further to the declarations made by the Court pursuant to the inquiry held on 18th and 19th October 200[sic], the Claimant is entitled to the absolute title in the copyrights in all of the works of Aleister Crowley so far as the Court has declared by this Order that copyright in such works subsists | | | that the foregoing shall be without prejudice to the power of the Court to issue an interim costs certificate pursuant to paragraph 47.15(1)(a) of part 47 of the Civil Procedure Rules | | | AND THE DEFENDENTS CONCEDING that copyrights subsists in all of the works identified in the substituted schedule to the Claimant’s particulars of claim of being the works of Aleister Crowley |
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http://user.cyberlink.ch/~koenig/dplanet/or/2002.htm
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| | CBS News High Court Justice A Cheney Guest February 11, 2004 13:15:13 |
| | Supreme Court justices decide for themselves whether to step aside in a case. | | | High Court Justice, VP Go Hunting; Cheney Appeal Is Before The Court | | | The justices are due to hear arguments in April. |
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/02/11/politics/main599686.shtml
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| | CBS News Alito Sworn In As High Court Justice January 31, 2006 20:04:28 |
| | Alito Sworn In As High Court Justice | | | History, traditions and key cases, plus what it takes to get on the bench. | | | Profile of the latest Supreme Court justice and the steps required for his confirmation. |
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http://www.cbsnews.com/track/rss/stories/2006/01/31/politics/main1260362.shtml?CMP=OTC-RSSFeed&source=RSS&attr=U.S._1260362
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| | High Court of Australia - Justices - Justice McHugh |
| | High Court of Australia - Justices - Justice McHugh | | | Michael Hudson McHugh was appointed to the Court in February 1989. | | | At the time of his appointment he was a judge of the New South Wales Court of Appeal having been appointed to that office in October 1984. |
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http://www.hcourt.gov.au/mchughj.htm
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| | State: Hal P. Dekle, 87, former state high court justice |
| | Hal P. Dekle, 87, former state high court justice | | | State: Hal P. Dekle, 87, former state high court justice | | | Before his election to the Supreme Court, Judge Dekle was listed as "well qualified" or "qualified" by 80 percent of lawyers in a statewide vote. |
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http://www.sptimes.com/2005/05/26/State/Hal_P_Dekle__87__form.shtml
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| | Catholics, though few in number, have lengthy history on high court The-Tidings.com |
| | Catholics, though few in number, have lengthy history on high court | | | Catholics, though few in number, have lengthy history on high court | | | White was joined on the court in 1898 by Joseph McKenna, the son of Irish immigrants who was U.S. attorney general at the time of his nomination. |
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http://www.the-tidings.com/2005/cns/cns072105.htm
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| | Former High Court chief justice dies |
| | He served as chief justice of the High Court between 1981 and 1987. | | | Former chief justice of the High Court Sir Harry Gibbs has died at the age of 88. | | | Sir Harry was appointed to the Queensland Supreme Court in 1961. |
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/items/200506/1403036.htm?act
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| | State: Anstead will be high court chief justice |
| | State: Anstead will be high court chief justice | | | TALLAHASSEE -- Florida Supreme Court Justice Harry Lee Anstead, whom angry Republicans pledged to oust from office over rulings during the 2000 presidential election, is the high court's new chief justice. | | | The U.S. Supreme Court halted the recount a day later. |
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http://www.sptimes.com/2002/04/11/State/Anstead_will_be_high_.shtml
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| | USATODAY.com - Ohio high court justice throws out presidential election challenge |
| | But nothing in state law or any previous court decision allows challenges to be combined, Moyer said. | | | COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio Supreme Court's chief justice on Thursday threw out a challenge to the state's presidential election results. | | | Ohio high court justice throws out presidential election challenge |
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-12-16-ohio-vote_x.htm
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