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Majority opinion
About: Majority opinion is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 4107 publications have been published within this topic receiving 54845 citations. The topic is also known as: opinion of the court.
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TL;DR: This paper examined the coverage of the Supreme Court of Israel functioning as the High Court of Justice in the popular and elite press over a period marked by growing activism of the Israeli Supreme Court and an increasingly adversarial and critical media.
Abstract: This study examines the coverage of the Supreme Court of Israel functioning as the High Court of Justice (HCJ) in the popular and elite press over a period marked by growing activism of the Israeli Supreme Court and an increasingly adversarial and critical media. Our results show that more prominent coverage of the HCJ over time, especially in the elite press, accentuates the salience of the Supreme Court in public life. In addition, the topics, the stages of the HCJ proceedings, the petitioners, and the outcome of the cases covered by the press, as well as the generally uncritical reporting of the Court decisions help create the frame of an autonomous, powerful Court that frequently opposes and restrains the government. We suggest that this pattern of media coverage of the HCJ benefits both the Court and the media: it reinforces the image of the media as a critical watchdog of the government, while at the same time it legitimates the Court's expansion of power and strengthens its image as an apolitical and independent institution.
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01 Jan 2007
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TL;DR: The full-text of this article is not currently available on the LRA The original published version is available on publisher's webiste: http://hrlroxfordjournals.org/content/9/1toc672DOI: 101093/hrlr/ngn033
Abstract: The full-text of this article is not currently available on the LRA The original published version is available on the publisher's webiste: http://hrlroxfordjournalsorg/content/9/1toc
DOI: 101093/hrlr/ngn033
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TL;DR: The authors identified structural breaks in dissenting and single opinions on the High Court of Australia and used a recent method proposed by Caporale and Grier (2002) to examine the effect of leadership on variations in the dissent rate between 1904 and 2001.
Abstract: This article identifies structural breaks in dissenting and single opinions on the High Court of Australia and uses a recent method proposed by Caporale and Grier (2002) to examine the effect of leadership on variations in the dissent rate between 1904 and 2001. Although there has been much speculation about the effectiveness of different Chief Justices in obtaining consensus on the Court, to this point most of the evidence has been anecdotal. Our main findings are that the structural breaks that we identify coincide with major turning points in the leadership of the Court and that leadership has been important in explaining variations in the proportion of dissenting opinions on the Court.
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TL;DR: In a speech to the International Bar Association, Kofi annan as mentioned in this paper called for the creation of an International Criminal Court and proposed that the Court is necessary for the full realization of the United Nations goal of international justice.
Abstract: This Opening Remark contains the text of Kofi Annan’s speech to the International Bar Association. In the speech, Annan calls for the creation of an International Criminal Court and proposes that the Court is necessary for the full realization of the United Nations’ goal of international justice. ADVOCATING FOR AN INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT
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