If, however, the court finds that the current dispute is fundamentally distinct from all previous cases ( called a " matter of first impression "), judges have the authority and duty to make law by creating precedent.

Particularly in ice dancing judges traditionally gave extra leeway to the current champion regardless of recent mistakes, as well as a trend of setting an order after the first compulsory dance and sticking to it.

The current judges of the First Judicial Circuit are the Martin J. Gaughan, James Mazzone, Arthur M. Recht, and Ronald E. Wilson.

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It was in 1949 that the bench reached its current size of nine judges.

At one time, judges were called My Lord / Lady during sessions of the court, but this style of address was disapproved of by the current Chief Justice, Beverly McLachlin, who has directed lawyers to use the simpler Your Honour or Justice.

They include mountain climbers ( Heidi Howkins, class of 1989, the only woman to lead expeditions to both Everest and K-2 ), authors ( such as Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, class of 1914, pen name Carolyn Keene ), astronomers ( including Annie Jump Cannon, class of 1884, who developed the well-known Harvard Classification of stars based upon temperature ), screenwriters, ( including Nora Ephron, class of 1962, famous for such films as When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle ), journalists ( Linda Wertheimer, class of 1965, Lynn Sherr, class of 1963, Diane Sawyer, class of 1967, and Cokie Roberts, class of 1964, being a few notable examples ), entrepreneurs ( including Robin Chase, class of 1980, the co-founder of ZipCar ), mathematicians ( Winifred Edgerton Merrill, class of 1883, was the first woman to ever receive a PhD in mathematics ), judges ( including Jane Bolin, class of 1928, the first African-American woman to become a judge, and current federal appeals judges Reena Raggi, Amalya Kearse, and Susan P. Graber ).

Napoleonic Code, Chinese Law and German Law, emphasize very specific philosophical principles rooted in Islam, French, Chinese, and German philosophy respectively-the role of precedent and prior jurists is much reduced and that of current judges enhanced-thus these can be seen as an ethical code which applies to the jurists themselves.

Under current California law, all California judges must be licensed attorneys.

Its current members include, amongst other prominent lawyers and legal academics, judges of the International Criminal Court.

The judges of the new superior courts, including the Chief Justice and President, adopted for all occasions-ceremonial or otherwise-the ordinary working judicial dress of the austere type previously worn by members of the old Court of Appeal, that is, in the words of the current Order 119 rule 2 of the Rules of the Superior Courts, 1986:

During these nine weeks they have access to Yale's practice carillons to prepare two audition pieces, which are performed for judges ( current Guild members ), along with a standardized exercise and sight reading.

Additionally, two current justices are the first two openly gay judges on the court, while the current chief justice is the first individual of Hispanic heritage to serve on the court and to serve as chief justice.

The five members of the Special Court are ( a ) the Chief Justice of the Federal Court ( who is the Chairperson ), ( b ) the two Chief Judges of the High Courts, and ( c ) two current or former judges to be appointed by the Conference of Rulers.

In 2005, he was appointed a Knight of the Garter, an honour in the personal gift of the Queen and one only rarely conferred on judges ( Sir Ninian Stephen – a current holder – was previously a Justice of the High Court of Australia and Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone, Lord Chancellor in the periods 1970 – 74 and 1979 – 87, was a previous holder ).

The current composition of the court includes the following judges:

His current term extends until January 1, 2017 when he will be forced to leave the court after exceeding the age of 70, the mandatory retirement age for judges in Ohio.

Separation of powers has again become a current issue of some controversy concerning debates about judicial independence and political efforts to increase the accountability of judges for the quality of their work, avoiding conflicts of interest, and charges that some judges allegedly disregard procedural rules, statutes, and higher court precedents.

Actually, you could wish for some passion, now and then, but when you look around the world and see the little volcanos of current history which partisan social passions have wrought, you are glad that in these pamphlets there is at least some civilized calm.

Among current problems that require solutions, participated in by citizens as well as government, are:

To the extent that our sampling of the orientations of American college students in the years 1950 and 1952 may be representative of our culture -- and still valid in 1959 -- we are disposed to question the summary characterization of the current generation as silent, beat, apathetic, or as a mass of other-directed conformists who are guided solely by social radar without benefit of inner gyroscopes.

This tied in closely with the current attempt to upgrade state-owned cars to the extent that vehicles are not retained beyond the point where maintenance costs ( in light of depreciation ) become excessive.

These objectives are stated here because of their importance in understanding the current activities of the Planning Division.

Much of this necessary increase in research and development, though properly chargeable to current expenses, is not reflected in earnings until projects are completed and the new machines sold in quantity, usually over a period of several years.

In recent months, much attention has been given to the probable extent of the current downtrend in business and economists are somewhat divided as to the outlook for the near future.

That we are experiencing an upsurge of interest in the many formulations and preventive adaptations of brief treatment in social casework is evident from even a small sampling of current literature.

Moreover, the current information on what types of training are needed and possible is too limited and fragmentary.

All three are purposely kept small, with a current total enrollment of about two hundred.

But there are reasons for the current spotlight on the subject.

The navy captain disclosed also that a list of questions found in Miss Gee's purse would, if completed and handed back, have given the Kremlin a complete picture `` of our current anti-submarine effort and would have shown what we are doing in research and development for the future ''.

Sprinkel strongly refuted the current neo-stagnationist thesis that we are facing a future of limited and slow growth, declaring that this pessimism `` is based on very limited and questionable evidence ''.

As a result, the West is in a poor bargaining position at the current Geneva negotiations on Laos, and South Vietnam and other nations in Southeast Asia are under increased pressure.

In the absence of a truly adequate conceptuality in which the gospel can be expressed, the unavoidable need to demythologize it makes use of whatever resources are at hand -- and this usually means one or another of the various forms of `` folk religion '' current in the situation.

In other words, the house-holders are encouraged to practice the five cardinal principles of non-violence, truthfulness, non-stealing, celibacy and non-possessiveness with their current practical limitations while the monks have to observe them very strictly.

The current drawn by a number of typical appliances are:

The gases are contained in a test-tube ( A ) standing over a large quantity of weak alkali ( B ), and the current is conveyed in wires insulated by U-shaped glass tubes ( CC ) passing through the liquid and round the mouth of the test-tube.

One consequence of the Hindu and Spiritist beliefs is that our current lives are both afterlife and a beforelife.

According to those beliefs events in our current life are consequences of actions taken in previous lives, or Karma.

The role of fine art has been to simultaneously express values of the current culture while also offering criticism, balance, or alternatives to any such values that are proving no longer useful.

This includes results that are infeasible with current technology.

Certain specific conditions are excluded as disabilities, such as current substance abuse and visual impairment that is correctable by prescription lenses.

The vessel will now swing in the middle of two anchors, which is acceptable in strong reversing currents, but a wind perpendicular to the current may break out the anchors, as they are not aligned for this load.