Case Study: The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia’s Court Transcripts in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian—Part 1: Needs, Feasibility, and Output Assessment

International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) remains the most important organization for the past, the present, and the future of the former Yugoslavia. Faced with a country that always lived under totalitarian regimes with very little insight into actions of the groups and individuals who reaped unthinkable havoc on each other at the end of the twentieth century, the ICTY set undisputable historical record about events that took place during the 1991–1999 wars and put the country on an excellent track towards transformation for the better. But even 28 years since the establishment of the ICTY, the former Yugoslavia remains the hotbed of nationalism, ethnic divisions, genocide denial, and genocide justification. Court transcripts belong to the category of the permanent court record. The ICTY court transcripts have only been made in English and French, but not in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian (B/C/S), the languages of the former Yugoslavia. This paper is going to examine the needs for the ICTY court transcripts in the B/C/S, could they have been made in the B/C/S from the very beginning of the institution and whether the existing ICTY court transcripts in the B/C/S are up to par for any of its audiences.

Friend of the Courthouse: a digital media project that promotes access to justice through procedural literacy

Friend of the Courthouse is a website application where parties receive accessible and individualized information relating to their pending case’s procedure. The objective is to allow parties to understand their procedural steps. The platform promotes access to justice in utilizing digital media. It does so by encouraging an understanding of procedural law. Although its application is best suited to the Quebec legal landscape, it can equally be applied in Ontario provided that a modernization of its court record system takes place. Considering that Friend of the Courthouse exemplifies the use of digital media as a vehicle for the advancement of access to justice, Ontario can in fact be incentivized to undergo such a modernization given the current access to justice issues it faces.

Friend of the Courthouse: a digital media project that promotes access to justice through procedural literacy

Friend of the Courthouse is a website application where parties receive accessible and individualized information relating to their pending case’s procedure. The objective is to allow parties to understand their procedural steps. The platform promotes access to justice in utilizing digital media. It does so by encouraging an understanding of procedural law. Although its application is best suited to the Quebec legal landscape, it can equally be applied in Ontario provided that a modernization of its court record system takes place. Considering that Friend of the Courthouse exemplifies the use of digital media as a vehicle for the advancement of access to justice, Ontario can in fact be incentivized to undergo such a modernization given the current access to justice issues it faces.

An Analysis on the Operations and Functions of a Sharīʿah Court: the Case of Ottoman Üsküdar (1547-1551)

Through a close reading of a single register found in the sixteenth-century court record series of Üsküdar, this article introduces the reader to the operations of the Sharīʿah court of Üsküdar and its records from 1547 to 1551. By approaching the court records as both “text” and “document,” it explores the functions of the court, identifies the court officials, defines their roles, and delineates the role played by the qāḍī, his court and the local community in the administration of justice. This article can be read as a contribution to the newly emerging literature on variations in the Sharīʿah courts in the Ottoman Empire in terms of their operations. As the recent literature including this present study demonstrates, the duties of the local Sharīʿah court in the Ottoman Empire are neither singular nor monolithic. While some of the courts provided notarial and administrative services primarily, others acted as significant sites for dispute resolution. Hence their operations were primarily judicial. What emerges from this study is that the court of Üsküdar in the very middle of the sixteenth century primarily functioned as a “public registry.”

EVALUASI PENERAPAN PPH PASAL 22 ATAS PEMBELIAN BARANG YANG DIBIAYAI DENGAN APBN DI PENGADILAN TATA USAHA NEGARA MANADO

Each country has several sources of tax revenue, non-tax revenues and grants. From these sources of income, the tax becomes one. This research is intended to find out and apply whether Article 22 Income Tax on the purchase of goods financed by APBN in Manado State Administrative Court has been implemented in accordance with the established rules, namely Regulation of the Minister of Finance of the Republic of Indonesia Number 107/PMK.010/2015 and PMK 242/PMK.03/2014. Period of data taken is 2016. Type of research used is descriptive which will discuss about the implemeniation of Article 22 Income Tax on the purchase of goods financed by the State Budget at the State Administrative Court of Manado. The type of data used is qualitative data proof SSP PPh Article 22. The results of this study indicate Calculation, Payment, and Reporting on the procurement of goods financed by the state budget at the State Administrative Court of Manado not in accordance with the rules it stipulates from the application of Manado State Administrative Court Record has been in accordance with existing regulations.Keywords : calculation, registration, payment, reporting, article 22 income tax

A Muslim Hidalgo? The Nasrid Oligarchy From a Castilian Court Record

En este trabajo se analizan ciertos aspectos de la sociedad nazarí de finales del siglo XV. Para hacerlo, se emplean las informaciones contenidas en un pleito de hidalguía de principios del siglo XVI. Este pleito afectó a los descendientes de un converso granadino hijo de un alcaide de Iznalloz. La particular perspectiva que proporcionan estos testimonios, que realizan una equiparación entre hidalguía castellana y parte de la oligarquía granadina, plantean numerosas preguntas sobre la sociedad del Reino de Granada a finales de la Edad Media.