Changes in how government operates, and adjustments to rules and regulations, must go through an open democratic process whose steps and results can be challenged in the courts.
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It’s official: State courts can review lawmakers’ election-district boundary decisions to ensure they comply with state law.
Israel’s leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, has fired the country’s defense minister. That deepened the country’s crisis over proposed judicial reforms that even military reservists have protested.
Plans by the government to regularly overturn court decisions are the perfect way to avoid accountability.
The policy is neither rational nor reasonable, and so could be at risk of being struck out.
Directors who are unfairly kicked out of office by a hostile board face challenges since the legal remedies open to them are unclear.
Council’s approach to risk management has added insult to injury for the residents and businesses adjacent to the Mackintosh.
As a result of the ruling, more detail of future Parole Board decisions should be available to victims.
The idea of giving South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma amnesty in exchange for early exit is tempting but it will set a bad precedent.
New research has shown the benefits of the process that holds public bodies to account.
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