No judges presided over the courts nor did anyone give legal direction to the jurors ; magistrates had only an administrative function and were laymen.

The case of " beauty " is different from mere " agreeableness " because, " If he proclaims something to be beautiful, then he requires the same liking from others ; he then judges not just for himself but for everyone, and speaks of beauty as if it were a property of things.

The book records the first 39 years of what the Nephites termed " the reign of the judges ", a period in which the Nephite nation adopted a constitutional theocratic government in which the judicial and executive branches of the government were combined.

c. The Harts posed the following question to a panel of 96 experts, half of which were veterinary surgeons and the other half dog obedience trial judges:

Some scholars have inferred that the minor judges were actual adjudicators, whereas the major judges were leaders and didn't actually make legal judgements.

These were submitted to the Nobel Committee's surprised judges just ahead of the deadline.

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.

Additionally, from at least the 11th century and continuing for several centuries after that, there were several different circuits in the royal court system, served by itinerant judges who would travel from town to town dispensing the King's justice.

These deliberate acts of violence against civilians were acknowledged by the CIA as early as late 1983, when Duane Clarridge, Latin America division chief of the CIA ’ s Directorate for Operations, reported in a secret briefing to the Senate subcommittee that his contras had murdered " civilians and Sandinista officials in the provinces, as well as heads of cooperatives, nurses, doctors and judges.

Thirdly, in the judging step, these descriptions were matched by separate judges, as closely as possible, with the intended targets.

The jury and judges also noted, in their words, that Biafra “ lacked credibility ” on the songwriting issue and found from evidence presented by both sides that the songwriting credits were due to the entire band, using a clause in the band's written partnership giving a small share of every Dead Kennedys song royalty directly to the band partnership.

In addition to their roles as judges and tax collectors, governors were expected to maintain the postal service ( cursus publicus ) and ensure that town councils fulfilled their duties.

Proconsuls, for example, were often both judges of first instance and appeal, and the governors of some provinces took appellant cases from their neighbors.

:" Also in another volume from the times of Pope John XV, Dagome, lord, and Ote, lady, and their sons Misico and Lambert ( I do not know of which nation those people are, but I think they are Sardinians, for those are ruled by four judges ) were supposed to give to Saint Peter one state in whole which is called Schinesghe, with all its lands in borders which run along the long sea, along Prussia to the place called Rus, thence to Kraków and from said Kraków to the River Oder, straight to a place called Alemure, and from said Alemure to the land of Milczanie, and from the borders of that people to the Oder and from that, going along the River Oder, ending at the earlier mentioned city of Schinesghe.

The German-language Polish laws are based on the Sachsenspiegel and were written down to aid the judges.

In particular Bainimarama says that the two countries were exerting pressure on Sri Lankan judges, brought in by Bainimarama to replace the uncooperative local judiciary, not to travel to the country and refusing to grant them transit visas.

In particular Bainimarama says that the two countries were exerting pressure on Sri Lankan judges, brought in by Bainimarama to replace the uncooperative local judiciary, not to travel to the country and refusing to grant them transit visas.

In the early days of Islam, fatwās were pronounced by distinguished scholars to provide guidance to other scholars, judges and citizens on how subtle points of Islamic law should be understood, interpreted or applied.

Most important among his works were extensive commentaries on all of the official collections of papal decretals, papal judgments in the form of letters to delegated judges that were at the core of canon law.

In Carthage there were two supreme magistrates, styled kings or suffetes ( judges ).

The court system was standardized ; all judges were appointed by the national government in Paris.

King found a friend in Anthony Upton, one of the judges, who had a house called Mountown, near Dublin, where King frequently stayed In 1708, when Lord Wharton was sent to govern Ireland, King returned to London,

Some 149 sitting United States federal judges are Harvard Law School graduates ; six of the nine sitting justices of the Supreme Court of the United States attended the law school ( Chief Justice John G. Roberts and Associate Justices Anthony Kennedy, Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Antonin Scalia and Elena Kagan ).

However, Anthony Holden, who was one of the judges against Prisoner of Azkaban for the Whitbread Award, was very negative about the book, calling it tedious and clunkily written, the characters black-and-white and the storylines predictable.

The judges were Julius Chambers, President, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund ; Maxwell Lillienstein, General Counsel, American Booksellers Association ; and Anthony Podesta, Founding President, People for the American Way.

The judges were Charlayne Hunter-Gault, New York Correspondent, The MacNeil / Lehrer NewsHour ; Anthony Lewis, syndicated columnist, The New York Times ; Steven Pico, First Amendment lecturer and advocate ; and Tom Wicker, political columnist, The New York Times.

The judges were Katrina vanden Heuvel, Editor and Publisher, The Nation ; Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director, American Civil Liberties Union ; and Eugenie Scott, Executive Director, National Center for Science Education.

On 6 December 2010, senior Court of Appeal judges rejected the appeal of Anthony O ’ Shea, stating that they were " entirely confident that the appellant was rightly convicted ".

With judges Toni Collette ( President of the Jury ), Tobey Maguire, Rebel Wilson, James Woods, Anthony LaPaglia, Trevor Groth and Charles Randolph presiding over the competition, " The Story of Bubble Boy ", directed by Sean Ascroft ultimately took out the top prize.

Bowering was one of the judges for the 2008 Griffin Poetry Prize.

Later that year, Indiana territorial Governor William Henry Harrison and territorial judges Davis, Griffin, and Vandenberg held court in the district capital of St. Louis and enacted laws for the region.

The American architect Walter Burley Griffin won the contest and was invited to Australia to oversee the construction of the nation's new capital after the judges ' decision was ratified by King O ' Malley, the Minister for Home Affairs.

Notable characters in the Judge Dredd strip who originated in the Academy are tutors Judge Griffin and Judge Silver, who both became chief judges, Judge Pepper who became Griffin's deputy chief judge, and Judge Odell, who appeared in the buildup to the Necropolis story as Judge Kraken's tutor and mentor.

The newly appointed governor, William Hull, and the territorial judges ( Augustus B. Woodward, Frederick Bates, James Witherell, and John Griffin ), constituted the territorial government.

Mayer Goldberg, attorney for election judges in the 58th precinct of the 23d ward, argued this procedure constituted intimidation.

A disproportionate share of state court judges previously served as prosecutors, or less commonly as criminal defense attorneys or trial lawyers, although no particular background as an attorney is required to serve as a judge.

It has three elected commissioners that serve four years, as well as an elected treasurer, auditor, recorder, coroner, clerk of courts, engineer, prosecuting attorney, sheriff, and judges.

This body, established by the Judges Act, organizes seminars for federally appointed judges, coordinates the discussion of issues of concern to the judiciary, and conducts inquiries, either on public complaint or at the request of the federal Minister of Justice or a provincial attorney general, into the conduct of any federally appointed judge.

Simpson for the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, in which Bugliosi asserted Simpson's guilt, and criticized the work of the district attorney, prosecutors, defense lawyers, and Judge Lance Ito ; he used these profiles to illustrate broader problems in American criminal justice, the media, and the political appointment of judges.

The judges were Judith Krug, Director, the American Library Association for Intellectual Freedom ; Jack K. Landau, attorney an columnist, Newhouse Newspapers ; Clarence Page, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Columnist, Chicago Tribune ; and Harriet Pilpel, attorney, Weil, Gotshal & Manges.

In the courtroom there remained, besides the judges, only the accused and his attorney, the prefect of police Louis Lépine and Major Georges Picquart, who was entrusted with the duty of giving an account of the proceedings to the head of the staff and to the minister.

Unlike in some civil-law systems, academic treatises or learned commentary is not considered a separate source of law or cited by judges, but judges and attorney rely on it for their arguments.

Many of Birdman's former associates and enemies appear on the show in supporting roles ( the character Reducto, now given the first name Myron, regularly appears as a prosecuting attorney, and Mentok the Mind-Taker judges cases from late Season One onward ).

Previti was elected to the Chamber of Deputies, again for Forza Italia, both in 1996 and in 2001, but was investigated, together with Berlusconi, for allegedly bribing judges in a series of high-profile cases relating to his years of service as Berlusconi's attorney before entering politics.

The prosecutor's power to extract guilty pleas, previously held in check by judges, is now counterbalanced only by the diligence of the defense attorney.

They were charged with obscenity, despite the fact that 325, 000 people had watched it, including members of the police department and their wives, judges of the criminal courts, and seven members of the district attorney ’ s staff.

In addition, he was responsible for background investigations of White House officials, federal judges, and US attorney nominees.

Some state courts also use the title " staff attorney " for career clerks and clerks that support all judges.

In some jurisdictions, statutes may permit judges and juries to independently impose " loser pays "; for example, a judge may say: " I am ruling for the plaintiff on the amount of $ plus all court costs and attorney fees.

There, the medical examiner sends the report only to the regional review committee, which alerts the district attorney only if it judges that the physician acted improperly.

They compete at the Santa Ana Courthouse in front of real judges and attorney scorers.