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..... confidentiality rule is incontrovertible. the objects of the rule are all ones which reinforce the values in that article. they provide essential assistance for the jury to operate as a collective body independently of outside influences and be impartial. it helps them to reach a determination of the criminal charge within a reasonable time without the ..... told the jury that they should make full allowance for the appellant's difficulties. defence counsel warned the jury against the possibility of prejudice and advised against prejudice operating when they were considering their verdict. 66. the judge then dealt with this aspect of the case in his summing up. he referred to the fact that, ..... case and the evidence, and are liable to be influenced, less or more, by what they thus hear passing in the world." 97. in pirie v caledonian railway company (1890) 17 r 1157, 1161 lord president inglis said that it was out of the question for the court to entertain any challenge after the trial to .....
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..... torturers ply their trade. sadly, the gestapo rolled up resistance networks and wiped out their members on the basis of information extracted under torture. hence operatives sent to occupied countries were given suicide pills to prevent them from succumbing to torture and revealing valuable information about their mission and their contacts. in ..... be given. 42. the united nations pronouncements are to the same effect. thus security council resolution 1373 of 28 september 2001 called for co-operation and exchange of information to prevent terrorist acts, but also reaffirmed resolution 1269 of 19 october 1999 which called for observance of the principles of the ..... humanitarian law, must not be infringed or compromised. thus, while the council of europe's parliamentary assembly recommendation 1534 of 26 september 2001 refers to co-operation "on the basis of the council of europe's values and legal instruments", it also refers to parliamentary assembly resolution 1258, para 7 of which states .....
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..... the parole board believes itself to be sufficiently informed is a matter for the parole board. we know that the criticisms by the chairman of the board of the operation of the ipp regime contributed to the setting up of the lockyer review and the subsequent improvements in the process. if the parole board failed to comply with its ..... before which the prisoner is provided with the opportunity to address argument that it is not. 132. in my opinion article 5(4) is not directed to the operational inadequacies of a prison regime which may make it impossible for the prisoner to address his offending in the hope of or with a view to his reform and rehabilitation ..... of state cannot claim the protection of the statutes for his failure to provide the administrative support that was needed for the system that the statutes laid down to operate as it should. it is to that area of his responsibilities and its effect on the performance of its function by the parole board that the argument that he .....
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