Is this a serious attempt at a national honors system? It's been a long time since the king has given any honors. I'd like to see a similar system to the U.K. where the PM advises the monarch on honors. A lot of people have been, in my opinion, overlooked.


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(Sorry! I hit 'modify' instead of 'quote'.  The content of your post has not been changed.  I shouldn't even be able to do that outside of Immigration???  Eddie.)

Point of clarification: the Uppermost Cort did not find that Justice Tamoran erred. One solitary justice did, in a case that did not set legal precedence. I am not the entire UC and don't speak for it alone.

Also, I don't know if it is established that misapplying justice is in and of itsel a crime, as stated in the resolution.

Congratulations to my new colleague on Uppermost Cort!

Quote from: Viteu on February 24, 2020, 10:47:28 PM

Quote from: Miestrâ Schiva, UrN on February 24, 2020, 09:29:10 PM
Another comment: if we had a functioning National Bar in this country, I would wish that counsel for both the Government and the Respondent* would have been subject to discipline (eg. barred from taking the next UC case) for regular outbursts and talking-out-of-turn in the just-concluded appeal.

In other words: we need a functioning National Bar in this country, because the lawyers are unruly.

(* You can't bar me, I'm the Seneschal  8) )

If I make it on the Cort, this is on my list. The Cort is supposed to set up the bar. I'm sure I could find support.among the justices to get this going.

You have my support and I do hope the king ratifies your election onto the Cort. I and a couple others have been regularly admitted to the bar after successfully passing the old bar exam that Dame Litz once administered. I had at one point offered to take up her work on the Bar but as with many things, this never happened.

If we had a Bar, I would argue that in order to argue before the UC one would need to be admitted or recognized in some way.

Quote from: Miestrâ Schiva, UrN on February 24, 2020, 09:29:10 PM
Another comment: if we had a functioning National Bar in this country, I would wish that counsel for both the Government and the Respondent* would have been subject to discipline (eg. barred from taking the next UC case) for regular outbursts and talking-out-of-turn in the just-concluded appeal.

In other words: we need a functioning National Bar in this country, because the lawyers are unruly.

(* You can't bar me, I'm the Seneschal  8) )

Even without a National Bar currently set up, sanctions for the contempt charges were most definitely something I pondered up to and including disqualification from appearing before the UC for a certain period of time. I don't know if that would have been enforceable, however, so I was forced in the end to stop short.

I believe this may be the first time in Talossan history that a counselor has been found in contempt of Cort (not to mention a Seneschal).

Quote from: Viteu on February 24, 2020, 05:22:20 PM
"Indeed, it can be argued that if a trial did occur, it was rather loose."

Oddly, if the Cort is of the mind that no trial occurred, then there could be no acquittal.  So I find it hard to reconcile the two.  It is implied, of course, that the lower cort erred significantly in its application of law.

That said, in my professional practice, when I have lost or won a motion, I do not really care to relitigate the matter outside of the courtroom.  So that's that. 

In any event, I thank the Cort, the Government, and the Defendant for their hard work on this case.  But I remind everyone involved that this matter is not binding, and to the extent that this provides some persuasive authority, it's that the lower cort's application of the law was erroneous and Panache got off on a technicality.

I was merely reiterating some of the arguments made in the case in summary. I believe a trial did occur so the "loosely" reference was my own thinking.

I vote for Txoteu É. Davinescu.

Thanks for this. I remember when I first proposed eliminating the magistrates court scouring el lex for references. Good eye! I would also like to co-sponsor.

Quote from: Ián Tamorán S.H. on January 06, 2020, 11:02:58 AM
The judgement of the CPI has been published on "the old-Witt".

There being no further (visible) cort cases active, I suggest that all Cort business be moved over to this talossa.com

Ián Tamorán S.J., C.J.

I concur Your Honor.

I stake my claim.

Is it just me or does the thread close entirely after posting?

Darn, I was hoping to be the first haha!

Well I'm here and ready!