The Governor has the power to appoint members to the board, but the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ( SJC ) advised in an advisory opinion that " nothing in G. L. c. 81A explicitly provides for the removal and reassignment of the chairperson to the position of " member.

Judge Lynch of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court argued that death by dehydration symptoms was " cruel and violent " in his opinion on this case because such a death involved:

The book was banned by Boston courts in 1962 due to obscenity, but that decision was reversed in a landmark 1966 opinion by the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.

His tenure as chief justice is often seen as a high point of Judicial power that had not been equaled, before or since.

Senior judges ( Justices of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, Lords Justices of Appeal and the Heads of the Divisions of the High Court ) are officially appointed by the Sovereign on the advice of the Lord Chancellor, but since 2005 the Lord Chancellor has been advised by an independent Judicial Appointments Commission and can only choose whether to accept or reject its recommendations.

The organization launched its South Africa program in 2005, and has since provided training to the Department of Correctional Services ( DCS ) and the Judicial Inspectorate of Correctional Services ( JICS ) on sexual abuse prevention, focusing on the link between prisoner rape and the spread of HIV.

* Judicial Recorder ( since 2005 )-currently His Honour Judge Richard Lowden

Judicial corporal punishment has been abolished or declared unconstitutional since 1997 in Jamaica, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, South Africa, Zambia, Uganda ( in 2001 ) and Fiji ( in 2002 ).

She also said it had failed to give " cogent reasons " for rejecting some of her findings, mandatory since the Pensions Action Group Judicial Review.

A few months after the exclusion, in the context of Judicial prosecution against the group by the German state, Debord expressed his esteem to the Spur group, calling it the only significant artistic group in Germany since WW2, and at the level of the avant-gardes in other countries.

The Congressional Staff Directory has been published continuously since 1959, the Federal Staff Directory since 1982, and the Judicial Staff Directory since 1986.

Pipkin was elected to the State Senate in 2002 after defeating Democrat Walter M. Baker, who held that seat since 1979 and the chairman of the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee.

Royal Assent to the bill was reserved by Lieutenant Governor James Aikins and eventually the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council at Westminster ruled that, since the law affected an appointee of the federal Crown, it was ultra vires and struck down.

Judicial oversight is provided by Judge Philip Pepperleigh, a staunch Conservative, has sat on the bench of the Mariposa Court House for years since emigrating from the Maritimes.

In addition to recognizing same-sex marriages, since 1992 the District has also allowed residents to enter into registered domestic partnerships ; since the passage of the Domestic Partnership Judicial Determination of Parentage Act of 2009, the District recognizes civil unions and domestic partnerships performed in other jurisdictions that have all the rights and responsibilities of marriage.

Olaus Petri's The Rules for Judges unified legal system since 1530s and the law concerning the judicial procedure, the Code of Judicial Procedure (), was instituted as part of the legal codification of 1734.

BCS ( Judicial: Assistant Judge ( Note, following the separation of Judiciary from Executive organ of the Government since 2007 BCS Judicial officers are enjoying a separate service denomination that entails them to be known as belonging to newly established ' Bangladesh Judicial Service '.

The Save Happy Valley Coalition Inc has since taken Solid Energy to the High Court, and sought a Judicial Review of the Ministers ' decision.

He has been a Visiting Lecturer at Yale Law School since 2000 ; an adjunct professor at New York University School of Law since 1996 ; and director and on the faculty of New York University School of Law's Institute of Judicial Administration and Appellate Judges Seminar since 1992.

Judicial power is exercised by the judiciary, consisting of the Supreme Federal Court, the Superior Court of Justice and other Superior Courts, the National Justice Council and the regional federal courts.

While he was still on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, and before being named to the U. S. Supreme Court, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. published a short volume called The Common Law, which remains a classic in the field.

Colombia's highest judicial organs include the Supreme Court, the Council of State, the Constitutional Court, and the Superior Judicial Council.

The suit was thrown out by the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts in 1997, but a lingering discontent with the church's financial matters persists to this day.

Residents selected a minister different than that chosen by the church selectmen ; their right of selection was confirmed by the Supreme Judicial Court.

Melville married Elizabeth Shaw, daughter of chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Lemuel Shaw, on August 4, 1847 ; the couple honeymooned in Canada.

The federal judiciary is composed of the Higher Judicial Council, the Supreme Court, the Court of Cassation, the Public Prosecution Department, the Judiciary Oversight Commission, and other federal courts that are regulated by law.

In 1949, the former lawyer of many Supreme Court cases, St-Laurent ended the practice of appealing Canadian legal cases to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council of Great Britain, making the Supreme Court of Canada the highest avenue of legal appeal available to Canadians.

The current board consists of 43 members elected to five-year terms, 25 life members who vote until their 75th birthday, 3 elected officers ( President, Treasurer, and Secretary ), and 4 ex officio members ( the president of the alumni association, the Governor of Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Secretary of Education, and the Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ).

There is a Supreme Court with 5 judges including the Chief Justice. The Chief Justice is appointed by the President, with the recommendation of the Judicial Service Commission.

Judicial power is exercised by the judiciary, consisting of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, the Council of the Federal Judiciary and the collegiate, unitary and district tribunals.

* " John Marshall, Marbury v. Madison, and Judicial Review — How the Court Became Supreme " Lesson plan for grades 9-12 from National Endowment for the Humanities

Like the United States, there is a Judicial branch with a Supreme Court which is regarded as the highest court of the land.

Judicial power is vested in the courts with the Supreme Court of the Philippines as the highest judicial body.

The Judicial Committee consists of senior judges appointed as Privy Counsellors: Justices of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, judges of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, judges of the Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland, judges of the Inner House of the Court of Session ( the supreme civil court in Scotland ), and judges from various other Commonwealth member states.

* Judicial: Sri Lanka's judiciary consists of a Supreme Court – the highest and final superior court of record, a Court of Appeal, High Courts and a number of subordinate courts.

He also removed Sheikh Saleh al-Luhaidan as head of the Supreme Judicial Council and appointed the first female minister.

* Supreme Court = Judicial

" The Supreme Court holds " The judicial Power " according to Article III, and it established the implication of Judicial review in Marbury vs Madison.

" Currently, Massachusetts uses the names " Supreme Judicial Court " ( to distinguish itself from the state legislature, which is called the Massachusetts General Court ), while New Hampshire uses the name " Supreme Court ".

Additionally the highest court in Maine is named the " Supreme Judicial Court ".

The other judges were John Toohey QC, a former Justice of the High Court of Australia who had worked on Aboriginal issues ( he replaced New Zealander Sir Edward Somers QC, who retired from the Inquiry in 2000 for personal reasons ), and Mr Justice William Hoyt QC, former Chief Justice of New Brunswick and a member of the Canadian Judicial Council.

The President of the Court is elected amongst the members of the Court for a Period of 3 years where he will represent the Judicial Branch before the State.

Appeals from the Court of Appeal are sent to Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, which essentially is the same body as the Judicial Committee of the House of Lords.

Judicial review exists under certain conditions in the Constitutional Court, or Corte Costituzionale, which can reject anti-constitutional laws after scrutiny.

Pursuant to Article 158 of the Basic Law ( the constitutional instrument of the Region ), the power of final interpretation of the Law is vested not in the Court of Final Appeal but in the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, which, unlike the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, is a political body rather than an independent and impartial tribunal of last resort.