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The International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE), also known as the Tokyo Trial and the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal, was a military trial convened on 29 April 1946 to try leaders of the Empire of Japan for their crimes against peace, conventional war crimes, and crimes against humanity, leading up to and during the Second World War. [1]
Federal Republic of Germany v. Philipp, 592 U.S. ___ (2021), was a United States Supreme Court case that dealt with the applicability of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) for heirs of victims of the Holocaust to sue Germany in the United States court systems for compensation for items that were taken by the Nazi Party during World War II.
The lower court and then the appeals court denied his claim, on the basis that Germany was entitled to state immunity. However, during 2004 the Italian Court of Cassation reversed this judgment on the grounds that state immunity is lost when international crimes are alleged. On remand, the lower courts entered judgment in favor of Ferrini. [2]
The International Court of Justice (ICJ; French: Cour internationale de justice, CIJ), or colloquially the World Court, is the only international court that adjudicates general disputes between nations, and gives advisory opinions on international legal issues.
The Emergency Court of Appeals was a temporary federal court established by the United States during World War II, whose purpose was to review wage- and price-control matters. [1] The Court, established by the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942 , had "exclusive jurisdiction to set aside such regulation, order, or price schedule, in whole or in ...
Early examples of international courts include the Nuremberg and Tokyo tribunals established in the aftermath of World War II.Several such international courts are presently located in The Hague in the Netherlands, most importantly the International Court of Justice (ICJ), and the International Criminal Court (ICC).
The Trial of Gotovina et al. was a war crimes trial held from March 2008 until [1] (including the appeals process) November 2012 before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), [2] set up in 1993. [3]
There were 2,086 local Military Service Tribunals, with 83 County Appeal Tribunals (formed by county councils) to hear appeals by applicants not happy with the local tribunal decision. [1] A Central Tribunal at Westminster in London served, solely at the discretion of the Appeals Tribunal, [ 2 ] as the final court of appeal; it largely dealt ...