Table of Contents Introduction 3 Contextual View of the Caribbean Court of Justice 4 The CSME and CCJ Connection 6 Funding and Integration 8 Two Significant Cases 9 Appendix 3 INTRODUCTION It is said that within the economic sphere‚ the Caribbean is caught between two worlds. The old world of trade preferences‚ concessional flows of financial resources to the region‚ domestic protectionism‚ state dominated‚ and over-regulated economic activity is vanishing or is already gone. The
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THE HIGH COURT The Constitution provides for a High Court in every State which works under the Supreme Court of India. But in some cases‚ one High Court serves more than one State. For example‚ the Gauhati High Court serves not only Assam but also the other States of the North-Eastern region. Composition: The High Court consists of a Chief Justice and other judges. There is no fixed number regarding the judges of the High Courts. The President may also appoint a qualified person as an additional
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Running Head: DRUG COURTS AND THE TREATMENT OF SUBSTANCE Drug Courts and The Treatment of Substance Abusing Offenders Traci R. Howard Guilford Technical Community College Drug treatment courts also known as Drug Courts‚ provide treatment services to offenders in the criminal justice system. These particular courts use various models to provide treatment to drug offenders such as strategies to assist offenders with recovery from substance abuse. The process
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Drug Courts have been around for a little under three decades now. “Dating back to 1989‚ the first drug court was established in Miami-Dade County‚ Florida” (NADCP‚ 2015). Once that first drug court system was set up it took off from there and drug courts were rapidly developed throughout the United States. The number of drug courts rose from the first drug court in 1989 to “2‚734 drug courts by June 30‚ 2012” (NADCP‚ 2015). Drugs courts main goal is to try and treat the offender drug abuse problem
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Court of Appeals of Virginia Axel Foley v. Commonwealth of Virginia _______________________ PETITION FOR APPEAL _______________________ Lawyer Name: Rowan Tully Lawyer’s Responsibility: Nature of the Case Statements of Facts‚ and parts of the Argument Lawyer Name: Elizabeth Gadd Lawyer’s Responsibility: Proceedings in the Trial Court‚ Assignments of Error‚ Parts of “Argument”. TABLE OF CONTENTS NATURE OF THE CASE – Brief summary of the case PG 2 STATEMENTS OF FACTS – Brief description
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1986‚ the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court case established that there could be separate but equal facilities for blacks and whites‚ giving support to Jim Crow laws. The Supreme Court did not begin to reverse Plessy until the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case 58 years later‚ which established that segregating blacks and whites was unconstitutional and that separate could never be equal. After the period of reconstruction following the Civil War‚ many states in the south and other regions
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greatly as a result of Hamiltons economic policies. Marshall Supreme Court decisions. Henry Clays American system‚ and territorial acquisitions. While many of these programs ultimately sowed the seeds of sectionalism‚ the net result was a more powerful national government by 1820. During the 1780s the first major problem occurred for the federal government. It was how to deal with the financial chaos created by the American Revolution. The States had huge war debts. There was runaway inflation and almost
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The federal court system that we have today has grown and evolved over time.The structure of federal courts in America today has a three-part structure. There are three main types of courts in the federal court system: district courts‚ courts of appeals‚ and the U.S. Supreme Court. Courts in the federal system work differently in many ways than state courts. In the District courts‚ they are the federal trial courts.There are 94 federal district courts in the United States. District court is the lowest
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proposed law or court case The court case that is being reviewed is Women’s Health Protection Act of 2017. The Intentions of this case is to "protect a women’s right and ability to determine whether and when to bear a child or end a pregnancy by limiting restrictions on the provision of abortion services." (Chu‚ J. 2017) Abortion is defined as "the deliberate termination of a human pregnancy‚ most often performed during the first 28 weeks or first trimester of pregnancy". the Supreme court ruled in
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either the magistrates court or the crown court depending on the severity of the crime. Jonas ’s attacker could be charged with a number of non fatal offences ranging from the lowest non fatal offences which are common assault and battery under the Criminal Justice Act 1988‚ to the higher offences assault causing actual bodily harm and grievous bodily harm under the Offence Against the Person Act (1861). In order for the attacker to be charged within the criminal courts‚ the prosecution must prove
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