And Presidents beginning with George Washington have used their authority as a democratic check on judicial abuse of power.

But enough documents survived from these and the files of his top aides to disclose the director's patterns of administrative and judicial abuse.

The system, now five years old, has been widely criticized by lawyers and is seen by human rights groups outside Iran as a glaring invitation to judicial abuse.

Got what they could, but hopefully this is the start of precedent, which then (still hopefully) will finally put this travesty of judicial abuse to rest.

Complaints of judicial abuse poured in, and officials were incensed by the two men's inquiries into past court cases and in turn complained to Copenhagen about them.

Like many of the one million Americans who go through a divorce each year, Marvin Singer is indignant, depressed, financially stressed and convinced that he is a victim of judicial abuse.

The king could promulgate new laws, raise taxes, or call for a levée en masse (pospolite ruszenie) only with the consent of the sejmiks, and the nobility were protected from judicial abuses.

The story in Hungary is complicated by an erratic government accused of violating EU principles across the board, from confiscating private pensions and imposing an ad hoc bank tax, to judicial abuse and curbing press freedoms.

At an investigation into judicial abuses, it is stated that one judge takes wine to excess, before taking his seat on the Bench; and that another habitually disregards the pertinent French law and applies the law of England.

Mr. Gao, a lawyer, gained prominence among human rights advocates and grass-roots organizers in China and their supporters overseas for his uncompromising denunciations of police and judicial abuses and his scathing open letters to senior Communist Party leaders.

Broken Bench A yearlong investigation by The New York Times of the life and history of New York State's town and village courts found a long trail of judicial abuses and errors - and of governmental failure to curb them.

Piesiewicz agreed to help, though he doubted whether an accurate film could be made within the constraints of the judicial system; indeed, the filmmakers found that their presence in court seemed to be affecting the outcomes of cases, often improving the prospects of the accused, but making it hard to capture judicial abuses.

The course, offered at the Russian Legal Academy here in the capital, is part of an effort by advocates of change in President Boris N. Yeltsin's Government to introduce jury trials in Russia - as a symbol of human rights and as the best way to correct decades of judicial abuse.

Tan successfully supported the transition to independence of the IBP asserting the role of IBP as an independent union of lawyers mandated by the Constitution and the law enabling the IBP to provide a complementary institution supporting the courts in checking and maintaining a balance to judicial abuses.