However, citizens can, of course, bring cases to us, including outside of the domestic courts.

Claims have also been made by the inhabitants of protected territories in domestic courts.

An international award therefore has substantially greater executory (legal) force than a domestic court decision.

But this court doesn't eliminate the need for using domestic courts to pursue international outlaws, legal experts say.

Because the disciplinary council is an ecclesiastical court, rules of evidence that govern domestic courts do not apply.

This is an important development, which allows litigants before domestic courts effectively to subpoena the Commission.

Neither can international institutional issues be treated as if they were exotic hot house flowers, rarely of relevance to domestic courts.

For instance, a foreign sovereign and his diplomatic representatives were generally free from the jurisdiction of domestic courts when visiting.

This system may seem strange when compared with domestic court processes, but its purpose is to encourage states to submit cases to the Court.

Whether the domestic courts of the Member States would be consistent in applying those letters is speculative.

The domestic court had decided to suspend the publications on the assumption that the applicants would commit the same kind of offences in the future.

The domestic courts are a joke.

Appeals to domestic courts were refused.

Finally, the European court found that "The domestic courts' decisions appeared reasoned and well-founded.

Consequently, Japan has no enforcement mechanism to enforce foreign custody rulings or recommendations made by its own domestic courts.

We ratified the treaty in 1951 but under our constitution this gives no right of action in our domestic courts.

GKO bondholders made few attempts to pursue litigation in domestic courts.

In this situation the domestic court has the option either to adjudicate upon the dispute or to suspend the proceedings pending determination by the Commission.

But neither to their party investigators, nor to domestic courts they're squeezing with their temporary ministerial careers.

Anguilla's domestic courts (which enjoy appeals to the Court of Appeal), including:

This may occur by express statutory provision or by a domestic court having regard to an international norm as reflecting social progress.

In some countries, these must be filed (or docketed) with a domestic court, and the terms must be "so ordered" by a judge.

The law allows people to complain of rights abuses in domestic courts but does not permit courts to set aside offending laws or administrative action.

Before ending up in the European court, the matter was raised in domestic courts a number of times, with the courts generally ruling against the government.

Since the EC competition rules apply directly in member states, private parties can invoke Articles 85 and 86 before their domestic courts.