The judges on the Supreme Court or Corte Suprema are appointed by the president and ratified by the Senate from lists of candidates provided by the court itself.

The president of the Supreme Court is elected by the 21-member court.

The Quito Audiencia, which was both a court of justice and an advisory body to the viceroy, consisted of a president and several judges ( oidores ).

In 1987, a new constitution was ratified, providing for an elected bicameral parliament, an elected president, and a prime minister, cabinet, ministers, and supreme court appointed by the president with parliament's consent.

Charlton Ogburn, Jr. was elected president of The Shakespeare Oxford Society in 1976 and kick-started the modern revival of the Oxfordian movement by seeking publicity through moot court trials, media debates, television, and later the Internet, including Wikipedia, methods which became standard policy for Oxfordian and anti-Stratfordian promoters because of their success in recruiting members of the lay public.

Parliament passed an order of attainder for High Treason on the four most prominent deceased regicides: John Bradshaw the court president, Oliver Cromwell, Henry Ireton and Thomas Pride.

After accepting the rulings of the Supreme Court, Musharraf became the first president for holding general elections nationwide, based on the rulings of the supreme court.

In 1814 Feuerbach was appointed second president of the court of appeal at Bamberg, and three years later he became first president of the court of appeal at Anspach.

Impeachment can be pronounced by the High Court, a special court convened from both houses of Parliament on the proposal of either House, should the president have failed to discharge his duties in a way that evidently precludes the continuation of his term.

This referred to the chairman of a jury in a criminal court, and sometimes to a praetor or other official serving as president of a permanent commission.

The court system inaugurated by Congress included a Supreme Court consisting of a chief justice appointed by the president and four associate justices, elected by a joint ballot of both houses of Congress for four-year terms and eligible for re-election.

On October 12, 1998 twenty-five soldiers in the Sierra Leone army, including Corporal Tamba Gborie, Brigadier Hassan Karim Conteh, Colonel Samuel Francis Koroma, Major Kula Samba and Colonel Abdul Karim Sesay, were executed by firing squad after they were convicted at a court martial in Freetown for orchestrating the 1997 coup that ousted president Kabbah from power.

This institution is the governing body of the Judiciary, integrated by the president of the Supreme court, twenty members appointed by the King for a five-year term, among whom there are twelve judges and magistrates of all judicial categories, four members nominated by the Congress of Deputies, and four by the Senate, elected in both cases by three-fifths of their respective members.

The body may be dismissed by the president with the concurrence of the Constitutional Court ; because that court is subject to presidential appointment, the dismissal clause weights the balance of power heavily toward the executive branch.

The actual president of the court was the “ free count ” (, chosen for life by the Stuhlherr from among the Freischöffen, who formed the great body of the initiated.

The plenary court is an assembly of all judges, which has no jurisdictional function, but elects a president, vice-president, registrar and deputy registrar.

He served on the court martial of Brigadier General Billy Mitchell and was president of the American Olympic Committee during the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam.

After a protracted series of bitter court battles, the U. S. Supreme Court ruled that the president had to hand over the tapes to government investigators ; he ultimately complied.

If the charge is sustained the court has authority to remove the president from office.

Seven philosophers, among whom were Simplicius, Eulamius, Priscian, and others, with Damascius, the last president of the Platonist school in Athens at their head, resolved to seek protection at the court of the famous Persian king Chosroes, who had succeeded to the throne in 531.

The British Dental Association, formed in 1880 with Sir John Tomes as president, played a major role in prosecuting dentists practising illegally.

At the 2005 general elections, the MLP led Alliance Sociale coalition won the elections and Navin Ramgoolam became Prime Minister while Sir Anerood Jugnauth remained the president.

In 2006, Adrien Jones, the president of the Owain Glyndŵr Society, said, " Four years ago we visited a direct descendant of Glyndŵr ( Sir John Scudamore ), at Kentchurch Court, near Abergavenny.

The term " Permian " was introduced into geology in 1841 by Sir R. I. Murchison, president of the Geological Society of London, who identified typical strata in extensive Russian explorations undertaken with Edouard de Verneuil.

The colony was called " Lygonia " after Cecily Lygon, mother of New England Council president Sir Ferdinando Gorges.

He was a founder of the Royal Society ( president 1680 – 82 ), and his scientific work was highly regarded by Sir Isaac Newton and Blaise Pascal.

In October 1602, Boyle was again sent over by Sir George Carew, the president of Munster, on Irish affairs.

The National Antarctic Expedition, known as the Discovery Expedition after the ship Discovery, was the brainchild of Sir Clements Markham, president of the Royal Geographical Society, and had been many years in preparation.

: Sir, I have it in command from the president of the United States, to direct you to repair with all due speed on board the ship Constellation lying at Baltimore.

; Sir Howard Walter Florey ( professor, president of the Royal Society of Great Britain ): for an outstanding contribution in the development of medicine.

He was succeeded in 2001 by Sir Philip Craven, a British former Paralympic athlete, who remains president as of 2010.

Initiated in 1859 by the then president of the Toronto Turf Club, Sir Casimir Gzowski, a distinguished Polish engineer and ancestor of the popular Canadian broadcaster, Peter Gzowski, the Queen's Plate was inaugurated on June 27, 1860, at the Carleton racetrack in Toronto, Ontario.

Sir Joshua Reynolds, president of the Royal Academy, chaired the panel that admitted him.

Sir Thomas Lawrence PRA FRS ( 13 April 1769 – 7 January 1830 ) was a leading English portrait painter and president of the Royal Academy.

This conference formed and drafted a constitution for the New Zealand Alliance for the Suppression of the Liquor Traffic and the following officers were elected: president, Sir William Fox ( New Zealand ); sixteen vice-presidents, including D. Goldie, Hori Ropiha, Sir H. A. Atkinson, L. M. Isitt, and Sir Robert Stout ; executive committee, F. G. Ewington, Edward Withy, George Winstone, H. J.

* Beckett's Catastrophe – dedicated to then-imprisoned Czech dissident playwright Václav Havel, who became president of Czechoslovakia after the 1989 Velvet Revolution – was first performed at the Avignon Festival on July 21, 1982 ; the film version ( in Beckett on Film ) was directed by David Mamet and performed by Harold Pinter, Sir John Gielgud, and Rebecca Pidgeon.

She became president of Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in London in 2006, taking over from Sir John Mills, and is also president of the Questors Theatre, Ealing.

This society was governed by a council, at that time led by Sir Henry Thompson ( president and founding member ).

The liberal philosopher Sir Isaiah Berlin was the college's first president, and was instrumental in its founding.

In 1983 to 1984, she was president of Edinburgh's Sir Walter Scott Club.

And in 1700 he satirised the Royal Society — or at least, Sir Hans Sloane, their president — in two dialogues, entitled The Transactioner.