However, Saami customary law is never applied if it is in contravention of national law.

The Law was fully applied.

Islamic law (Shariah) is officially applied by all, with varying degrees of strictness.

Part of the substantive law to be applied then is the E Contracting Convention.

The criminal law is applied retroactively only when this results in benefit for the defendant.

The law to be applied by the Commission is set out in article 31 of the Rules.

297. Other age criteria are applied in the labour law.

Mr. Yokota agreed that the traditional distinction that international humanitarian law applied during armed conflict and human rights law applied in time of peace was no longer correct.

In Chile there is the general law on cooperatives of 1978, which is applied through the Ministry of Economy, Development and Reconstruction.

Nevertheless, it is true that law can only have an impact if it is effectively applied and if violations are followed by sanctions.

287. The Committee was informed that Muslims may choose whether Islamic or civil law is to be applied to them.

The principle of preclusion is the nearest equivalent in the field of international law to the common law rule of estoppel, though perhaps not applied under such strict limiting conditions (and it is certainly applied as a rule of substance and not merely as one of evidence or procedure).

The Committee expresses concern that where customary law contravenes the Covenant or the statutory law, the customary law continues to be upheld and applied.

If the law is applied only selectively and is particularly harsh on certain groups, it creates resentment and fosters the environment for a violent response.

This is consistent with the general practice for determination of loss applied in international law and by other compensation commissions and tribunals .

The report states on page 39 that equality of opportunity as laid down in the law is still being applied only hesitantly.

It would welcome in next report examples, if any exist, of court decisions illustrating how the Convention is applied in domestic law.

The discrimination becomes apparent in the way the proceedings are handled and in the ideological framework within which the law is applied.

1. In Peru, no law or measure whatsoever of the kind referred to in resolution 52 10 either exists or is applied.

However, the applicable law, regulations or instructions may be incorrectly applied in individual cases.

In Singapore, this principle was always applied, following judicial practice and not by law.

Mark Heywood AIDS Law Project, Centre for Applied Legal Studies, University of Witwatersrand, Witwatersrand

PERU 1. In Peru, no law or measure whatsoever of the kind referred to in resolution 51 17 either exists or is applied.

Mr. Taal (Gambia) stressed that sharia law applied only to family matters in the Gambia.

The following analysis demonstrates, however, that the Law may not be applied reasonably in practice.

That meant that where international humanitarian law applied, acts that were carried out in conformity with such law must not be criminalized by another body of law.

90. The first issue is granting of the status of legal person in public law which Muslims have applied for but not yet obtained.

These two volumes comprise a complete study of the law of injuries in Roman Dutch law as applied in South Africa and Ceylon.

The Panel observed that other relevant rules of international law were to be applied where necessary .

She asked whether the Government's focus on law reform and policy programmes applied to rural women.

The Court then determined that British Columbia law applied using its own conflict of laws rules.

Thirdly, humanitarian law applied not only to States but to any party to an armed conflict.

However, the Committee is concerned as to who decides this issue, and to what extent Muslim women are able to choose to have civil law applied to their affairs rather than Islamic law.

Where this appears most clearly is in severe crisis situations involving relatively serious armed conflicts, where the international law on human rights and international humanitarian law are applied in a simultaneous and complementary manner.

The author believes that it is very unlikely that the Supreme Court will find a violation of the law because Hungarian courts allegedly do not consider the Convention to be a law that is to be applied by them.

This rule is applied to foreigners only.

Georg Schwarzenberger, International Law as Applied by International Courts and Tribunals, vol. 2, pp. 72 73 (1968).

The arbitral tribunal applied the CISG as the relevant German law under article 1(1)(b) CISG.

In general, Islamic law is applied very strictly and according to an idiosyncratic interpretation in the parts of Afghanistan under the control of the Taliban movement.

The definition of nationality uses the term Khmer , instead of Cambodian , which could result in the exclusion of certain ethnic minorities when the law is applied.

This is because the punishment of control , a measure of restriction, may now be applied to 93 offences instead of 34 as under the 1979 Law.

International air law should be applied to aerospace objects while they are in the airspace of another State.

The court here applied the option stipulated in the law for increased damages, due to the harsh circumstances.

The United States also had a law which applied only to Cubans and promoted illegal and unsafe migration.

This right applied equally to all collectivities, indigenous and non indigenous, which qualified as peoples under international law.