He escaped from the tribunal after hearing himself condemned to six months in prison, and his Le Cri du Peuple which he had started on February 22, banned from further appearance.

Sir William Phips, governor of the newly chartered Province of Massachusetts Bay, appointed his lieutenant governor, William Stoughton, as head of a special witchcraft tribunal and then as chief justice of the colonial courts, where he presided over the witch trials.

So far, the tribunal has finished 50 trials and convicted 29 accused persons.

The tribunal consists of 16 judges in four " chambers "-three to hear trials, and one to hear appeals.

As, assuredly, what must be mainly taken care of and complied with in handling these trials is that they be managed with maximum confidentiality and after the verdict is declared and put into effect never be mentioned again ( 20 February 1867 Instruction of the Holy Office, 14 ), each and every person, who in any way belongs to the tribunal or is given knowledge of the matter because of their office, is obliged to keep inviolate the strictest secrecy ( what is commonly called " the secrecy of the Holy Office ") in all things and with all persons, under pain of automatic ( latae sententiae ) excommunication, incurred ipso facto without need of any declaration other than the present one, and reserved to the Supreme Pontiff in person alone, excluding even the Apostolic Penitentiary.

For trials held in the Comitium, the Rostra served as the tribunal upon which the magistrate sat in his curule chair with a small number of attendants.

" Holder had recently backed off, announcing that the trials would be held in a military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base.

These trials were heard before a military tribunal ; the three to five judges at these trials were British officers, assisted by a lawyer.

In 1946, incidents which followed the fall of Ambon became the subject of one of the largest ever war crimes trials: 93 Japanese personnel were tried by an Australian military tribunal at Ambon.

The tribunal was a tribunal praetoris sub divo with gradus and was known as tribunal Aurelium, a structure built by C. Aurelius Cotta around 80 BC, near the so-called Puteal Libonis, a bidental used for the sacred oath before the trials.

The tribunal of Zaragoza distinguished itself for its severity in judging these offences: between 1571 and 1579 more than 100 men accused of sodomy were processed and at least 36 were executed ; in total, between 1570 and 1630 there were 534 trials and 102 executions.

The tribunal has been criticized for not adhering to international norms and although members of the European Parliament have welcomed the effort to seek justice for crimes committed in 1971, they also cautioned that they would like to " ensure that the trials reach the highest possible standards.

The Tribunal Apostolicum Rotae Romanae ( Latin, " Apostolic Tribunal of the Sacred Roman Rota ") — also called the Sacred Roman Rota, and anciently the Apostolic Court of Audience — is the highest appellate tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church, with respect to both Latin-rite members and the eastern-rite members and is, with respect to judicial trials conducted in the Catholic Church, the highest ecclesiastical court constituted by the Holy See.

Simpsons Defense Team, various war crime tribunals around the world such as the trial of Slobodan Milošević, the Special Court for Sierra Leone, the UN-AKRT-ECCC Cambodia Khmer Rouge trials and the Rwanda tribunal.

On October 4, 2004, the Cambodian National Assembly ratified an agreement with the United Nations on the establishment of a tribunal to try senior leaders responsible for the atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge.

Until 2005, the Lord Chancellor fused the Legislature, Executive and Judiciary, as he was the ex officio Speaker of the House of Lords, a Government Minister who sat in Cabinet and was head of the Lord Chancellor's Department which administered the courts, the justice system and appointed judges, and was the head of the Judiciary in England and Wales and sat as a judge on the Judicial Committee of the House of Lords, the highest domestic court in the entire United Kingdom, and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, the senior tribunal court for parts of the Commonwealth.

As head of the civil service in Wales, Morgan's administration has been faced with a number of legal issues including an employment tribunal when the service dismissed blogger Christopher Glamorganshire in the Autumn of 2007, and a civil court action from Christine Davies after an accusation of sexual harassment from a senior manager was ignored.

He sat as a Judge in the Judicial Committee of the House of Lords ( the highest domestic Court in the United Kingdom ), and was a member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council ( the senior tribunal of the British Empire ( except for the United Kingdom ) and, latterly, parts of the Commonwealth ).

On June 11, 1937, the Soviet Supreme Court convened a special military tribunal to try Tukhachevsky and eight senior officers for treason.

As a jurist, Winter represented Newfoundland at the 1887-1888 fisheries conference in Washington and was senior counsel for the British government when Newfoundland was before the arbitration tribunal at the Hague in 1910 over a fisheries dispute.

* Freeman Ghenga is a more senior Ouster leader who also participates in and seems to preside over the tribunal.

Lord-General Noches Sturm, the disgraced senior officer relieved of command during the siege on Vervunhive when caught attempting to desert, is captured by the forces of Chaos while en route to a military tribunal.

In another case, the country's senior Asian police officer Tarique Ghaffur was considering commencing an employment tribunal over being sidelined by Sir Ian Blair in Olympics security planning, and being asked to keep quiet about his concerns about the new 42 days detention laws for terror suspects.

Failing to gain office, he was Envoy to Court of St. James's in Britain from 1885 to 1889, and in 1893 served as senior counsel for the United States before the international tribunal at Paris to adjust the Bering Sea Controversy.

In May 2006, Justice Minister Ang Vong Vathana announced that Cambodia's highest judicial body approved 30 Cambodian and U. N. judges to preside over the genocide tribunal for some surviving Khmer Rouge leaders.

In April 2008 former Khmer Rouge head of state Khieu Samphan made his first appearance at Cambodia's genocide tribunal.

Eventually the perceived leaders were arrested and tried before a military tribunal.

After the surrender of Japan, the American occupation authorities arrested Homma, and he was extradited to the Philippines at the express order of General Douglas MacArthur so that he could be tried by an American military tribunal rather than the International Allied War Crimes Commission tasked with prosecuting Japanese war-time leaders for war crimes connected with starting the war.

The first cabinet formed under the regime of the Revolutionary Committee ( which had established itself as the real master of Greece with King George II merely as a figurehead ) underwent several slight changes, the chief of which was caused by the refusal of Zaimis to retain the premiership ( which remained vacant, with Sotirios Krokidas as acting premier ), and after having been in power for less than two months resigned on November 24, chiefly owing to internal differences arising from the trial of the ex-ministers, statesmen, and military leaders by a revolutionary tribunal on the charges of high treason.

After the arrest these leaders of the Oldenbarnevelt regime were indicted for high treason and brought before an ad hoc tribunal consisting mostly of opponents of the accused.

After a swiftly arranged military tribunal, Shukri and four other leaders were executed on March 19, 1978.

On 19 August 2003, at the tribunal in Arusha, life sentences were requested for RTLM leaders Ferdinand Nahimana, and Jean Bosco Barayagwiza.

A commission, later known as Hyderabad tribunal, was set up by the PPP-led government and was used to convict the NAP leaders, despite its dubious legality and now discredited work.

Black has argued that the leaders of NATO should themselves be brought before the tribunal for war crimes, and was one of a group of Canadian lawyers, led by Professor Michael Mandel of Osgoode Hall Law School, who laid war crimes charges against all Nato leaders and officers in 1999 for the bombing of Yugoslavia and criticised Louise Arbour, former prosecutor of the ICTY and ICTR because of her cooperation with NATO leaders during the 1999 bombing of Serbia and because, as Chief Prosecutor at the Rwanda War Crimes Tribunal she stopped the investigation into the murder of the Hutu Presidents of Rwanda and Burundi on April 6, 1994 when their plane was shot down by anti-aircraft missiles after she learned that the Tutsi-dominated Rwandan Patriotic Front ( RPF ) were responsible, a fact confirmed by both her lead investigator, Australian lawyer Michael Hourigan and as contained in the Hourigan Report, a UN document, now an exhibit in the Miitary II trial, ICTR.

The tribunal was convened on April 29, 1946, to try the leaders of the Empire of Japan for three types of crimes: " Class A " crimes were reserved for those who participated in a joint conspiracy to start and wage war, and were brought against those in the highest decision-making bodies ; " Class B " crimes were reserved for those who committed " conventional " atrocities or crimes against humanity ; " Class C " crimes were reserved for those in " the planning, ordering, authorization, or failure to prevent such transgressions at higher levels in the command structure.

After the surrender of Japan, many of its former military leaders were tried for war crimes before the Tokyo tribunal, its government, educational system revised and had pacifism written into the post-war Constitution of Japan as one of its key tenets.

The International Marxist Group leaders on 15 June-Brian Heron and David Bailey-initially denied charging the first police cordon but later admitted doing so to the Scarman tribunal.

Some of its former military leaders were tried for war crimes before the Tokyo tribunal, the government educational system was revised, and the tenets of liberal democracy written into the post-war Constitution of Japan as one of its key themes.

After a swiftly arranged military tribunal, Shukri and four other leaders were executed on March 19, 1978.

Through several resolutions, the Security Council called on the tribunal to complete its investigations by end of 2004, complete all trial activities by end of 2008, and complete all work in 2012.

It has been labelled a terrorist organisation by the administrations in India and U. S. In August 2008, a special tribunal lifted the ban on SIMI, after a long review process.

Effective March 8, 2008, the benchers of Convocation, who also serve as adjudicators at discipline hearings and corporate directors at Convocation, voted to begin publishing tribunal decisions wherein impugned members successfully defended themselves at hearings.

On 30 January 2008, the BUAV won a victory over the Home Office when an information tribunal agreed that experiment summaries are biased towards emphasising the positive aspects of research.

In July 2008, the tribunal found in Ladele's favour, however this ruling was overturned by the Employment Appeal Tribunal in December, 2008.

In May 2008, Boyle offered to " represent Iran in an international tribunal for trying the Zionist regime on charges of genocide of Palestinians ", and reportedly demanded that his proposal be submitted to Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

In September 2008, Chiesa called for an international tribunal to probe events of 11 September 2001 and stated that " Our task is to inform millions of people of the true situation.

In November 2008, an SADC tribunal ruled that the government had racially discriminated against Mike Campbell and denied him legal redress and prevented him from defending his farm.

On 20 March 2008, an election tribunal nullified the election of Oserheimen Osunbor People's Democratic Party ,( PDP ) and declared erstwhile labour leader Comrade Adams Oshiomhole of the Action Congress as the winner.

In 1999, he was appointed as a judge to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia ( ICTY ), and was President of this tribunal from November 2005 to November 2008.