However, retired Associate Justices ( unlike judges on senior status ) take no part in the consideration or decision of any cases before the Supreme Court, although they may be appointed by the Chief Justice to sit on lower courts.

Currently, there are three retired Associate Justices: Sandra Day O ' Connor, who assumed senior status on January 31, 2006, David H. Souter, who assumed senior status on June 29, 2009, and John Paul Stevens, who assumed senior status on June 29, 2010.

During the 1980s and 1990s there was a Central Advisory Commission established by Deng Xiaoping which consisted of senior retired leaders, but with their death this has been abolished since 1992.

As a result, on February 24, 1966, a small number of army officers and senior police officials, led by Colonel Emmanuel Kotoka, commander of the Second Army Brigade at Kumasi, Major Akwasi Afrifa, staff officer in charge of army training and operations, Lieutenant General ( retired ) Joseph Ankrah, and J. W. K.

In 1948, King retired, and quietly persuaded his senior ministers to support St-Laurent's selection as the new Liberal leader at the Liberal leadership convention of August 1948.

Islanders later complained that succeeding governors were mainly retired senior military officers with an undynamic approach to the job.

In 305, the senior emperors jointly abdicated and retired, allowing Constantius and Galerius to be elevated in rank to Augusti.

Both tai-pans were responsible only to the senior partner or proprietor in London who was normally a retired former tai-pan and an elder member of the Jardine family.

A senior judge, in U. S. practice, is a retired judge who handles selected cases for a governmental entity while in retirement, on a part-time basis.

In the Fall of 1999, retired senior CIA engineering executive S. Eugene Poteat wrote that he was asked in early August 1964 to determine if the radar operator's report showed a real torpedo boat attack or an imagined one.

One of the Law Lords ( Lord Scott of Foscote ) had retired on 30 September 2009 and the 12th, Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury, became the Master of the Rolls ( the senior judge who heads civil justice in England and Wales ).

After 52 continuous years of service ( 1933 – 1985 ), he retired as Dean of the Montana Senate and senior state legislator in the nation ( Andrea Merrill-Maker, Montana Almanac, p. 159 ).

* Jerry L. Buchmeyer is a retired senior United States District Judge for the Northern District of Texas in Dallas, Texas.

These are predominantly the books written by the senior police in the early 1970s after they had just retired from the force, which are largely confined to the story of the investigation, trial and capture of the robbers.

In 1965, when James Dillon retired as Fine Gael leader after the 1965 general election loss, Liam Cosgrave, as a senior party figure and son of the first parliamentary leader of Fine Gael, easily won the leadership.

Stevens became the Senate's President Pro Tempore when Republicans regained control of the chamber as a result of the 2002 mid-term elections, during which the previous most senior Republican senator and former President Pro Tempore Strom Thurmond retired.

Usually a retired local notable, senior military officer, peer or business person is given the post honorarily.

One of JINSA's most important programs is to invite, with the assistance of the Pentagon and the U. S. Department of State, retired U. S. senior military officers to Israel and Jordan.

According to his analysis of thousands of captured Iraqi secret police documents and declassified U. S. government documents, as well as interviews with scores of Kurdish survivors, senior Iraqi defectors and retired U. S. intelligence officers, it is clear that Iraq carried out the attack on Halabja, and that the United States, fully aware of this, accused Iran, Iraq's enemy in a fierce war, of being partly responsible for the attack.

After Washington retired, Knox became the senior officer of the army.

Prior to 2002 the office rotated among retired senior officers from the British Army, the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force.

The Staff is headed by a senior officer ( usually a General or Admiral, retired from active service ) and is manned by military officers serving as aides to the King and his family.

The rationale for a senior discount offered by companies is that the customer is assumed to be retired and living on a limited income, and unlikely to be willing to pay full price ; sales at reduced price are better than no sales.

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.

However, it is now common for many retired judges to serve as arbitrators, and they will often write their names as if they were still judges, with the parenthetical "( Ret.

Retired Lords Justices sometimes sit in cases, as have retired Law Lords, and High Court judges are allowed to sit on occasion.

These judges were appointed from the retired judges of the Court of Appeal and including Justices Sir John Henry, Sir Ted Thomas, former President of the Court of Appeal Sir Ivor Richardson and former Chief Justice Sir Thomas Eichelbaum.

He has been openly criticised by retired judge Fergus Flood over McDowell's remarks about the failure of judges to implement the law on bail and mandatory sentences for drug dealing.

With 15 authorized judgeships ( currently there are 15 active judges, one senior judge who continues to hear cases part-time, and two retired judges who no longer hear cases ) it is mid-sized among the 13 United States courts of appeals.

At the 1999 tournament, he was to fight American Michael Bennett in the final, but the whole Cuban team retired from the competition to protest the result of another Cuban boxer in the tournament whom they considered had been " robbed " by the judges, meaning that Bennett won the final on default.

The senior member of the Court is able to specially assign lower-court judges, as well as retired justices, to fill vacancies on the Court.

Senior judges are all former, qualified judges ( a minimum of 12 years on the bench ) that have retired from a state court.

The court can appoint retired judges, lawyers, and other judges to serve temporarily as judges at any level in Oregon.

Because of their quasi-judicial powers the Commissioners are often retired senior judges.

This had a dramatic sequel when after the new inquiry, led by retired Queensland Supreme Court judges Peter Connolly QC and Kevin Ryan QC, requested that Carruthers hand over all records from his inquiry, he resigned without completing his inquiry, alleging interference.

Attorney-General Lionel Bowen, acting on what he said was his belief that the Justices of the High Court were minded to take some independent action to assess Justice Murphy's fitness to return to the Court, introduced legislation for a Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry, constituted by three retired judges, to examine " whether any conduct of the Honourable Lionel Keith Murphy has been such as to amount, in its opinion, to proved misbehaviour within the meaning of section 72 of the Constitution.

Lionel Bowen set up a Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry consisting of three retired judges in 1986 to inquire into the claims.

The court does not sit in panels ; all seven judges sit on each case unless there is a disqualification, in which event a judge from another court, or a retired appellate judge, may be specially assigned to sit in the place of the disqualified judge.

Currently, all three assigned judges are retired judges:

The three members of the Constitutional Council, who can act by majority, are determined automatically by constitutional formula, with places going first to former Governors-General ( with priority to the most recently retired ), and excess places going ( on the same basis ) in turn to former state governors, lieutenant-governors ( or equivalent ), judges of the High Court or judges of the Federal Court.

-- About 30% of the expenditures for the Department of Defense in 1961 are for military personnel costs, including pay for active, reserve, and retired military personnel.

Retired pay costs are increased by $94 million in 1961 over 1960, partly because of a substantial increase in the number of retired personnel.

A great many retired people are the so-called white collar workers.

The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Archbishop of York are both styled as " The Most Reverend "; retired archbishops are styled as " The Right Reverend ".

Both the missile and the aircraft were used by the United States Navy and are now retired, the AIM-54 Phoenix in 2004 and the F-14 in 2006.

Earned runs stem from the theory that the pitcher has sole responsibility to earn strikes against opposing batter ( s ) until at least three batters are retired in each inning of play, and nine innings ( a complete game ) are pitched.

; Honorary Assistant bishop, Assisting Bishop, or Bishop Emeritus: These titles are usually applied to retired bishops who are given a general licence to minister as episcopal pastors under a diocesan's oversight.

Many are drawn from retired school or service buses.

Rather than being scrapped or converted for other uses, sometimes retired buses are saved for preservation.

Many older strips are no longer drawn by the original cartoonist, who has either died or retired.

The hopped-over pieces are captured ( retired from the game, as in American checkers ) and collected in the capturing player's bin.

The Chicago Cubs retired numbers are commemorated on pinstriped flags flying from the foul poles at Wrigley Field, with the exception of Jackie Robinson, the Brooklyn Dodgers player whose number 42 was retired for all clubs.

There are also a large number of active and retired military personnel located in the Fredericton and Oromocto area as a result of the large military base at CFB Gagetown.

Her parents are retired and live in Morristown, Tennessee.

Typically, masters are either adults who never practiced the sport as children or teenagers, or former elite athletes who have retired but still seek a way to be involved in the sport.

His two most helpful exponents are the late William W Bartley and David Miller, recently retired from the University of Warwick.

Roughly a quarter of the contributors are deceased, some as long ago as 1947 ( Alfred North Whitehead ), while another quarter are retired or emeritus.

His plans for a new life as a bachelor are complicated when he is obliged to take in his father, a retired detective from the Seattle Police Department, Martin ( Mahoney ), who is unable to live by himself after being shot in the line of duty during a robbery.

Rossini had been a well-known gourmand and an excellent amateur chef his entire life, but he indulged these two passions fully once he retired from composing, and today there are a number of dishes with the appendage " alla Rossini " to their names that were either created by or specifically for him.