Translation of "Juge en Chef de la Cour du Banc du Roi " (French → English) :

Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench

Chief Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench

Chief Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench

Chief Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench for Saskatchewan

Chief Justice of the Court of Appeal

Chief Judge of the Provincial Court

On May 31, 1839, Lord Denman, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench, had declared:

A. whereas the first democratically elected President of the Republic of Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, who had been accused of ‘terrorism’, was sentenced on Friday, 13 March 2015 to 13 years in prison; whereas a former defence minister and a member of parliament were convicted in the same case of the detention of a serving chief judge accused of corruption in 2012; whereas two of the three judges in the case also testified against Mohamed Nasheed during the course ...[+++] of the investigation;

* BE: judicial members are either judges or prosecutors; BG: category prosecutors includes one elected investigative magistrate; DK: all members are formally appointed by the Minister of justice; category Appointed/nominated by other bodies/authorities includes two court representatives (nominated by the union for administrative staff and by the police union); FR: the Council has two formations – one with jurisdiction over sitting judges and one with jurisdiction over prosecutors; the Council includes one member of the Conseil d' ...[+++]Etat elected by the general assembly of the Conseil d'Etat; IT-CSM: Consiglio Superiore della Magistratura (covering civil and criminal judiciary); category judges includes two magistrates (judges and/or prosecutors) elected from the Supreme Court; IT-CPGA: Consiglio di presidenza della giustizia amministrativa (covering administrative judiciary); ES: members of the Council coming from the judiciary are appointed by the Parliament - the Council communicates to the Parliament the list of candidates who have received the support of a judges' association or of twenty five judges; MT: Leader of Opposition appoints one lay member; NL: members formally appointed by Royal Decree on the proposal of the Minister of Security and Justice; RO: elected magistrates validated by the Senate; SI: members elected by the National Assembly on the proposal of the President of the Republic.

56. Notes that the increasing Chinese presence in Africa has contributed to economic development, with a particular focus on infrastructure projects; appreciates the Chinese leadership’s acknowledgement of the serious criticism of its imbalanced, raw-material-centred African policy during the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), held in Beijing on 20 July 2012, as demonstrated by its current open promotion of a diversification of its activities on the African continent; welcomes the pledge by State and Party leader Hu Jintao at this FOCAC meeting of a record credit of USD 20 billion to African countries over the next three years ...[+++]for developing their infrastructure, agriculture, manufacturing and SMEs; welcomes the support expressed by China for the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) and encourages the Chinese authorities to follow the global trend towards more transparency and to increase their concrete commitments in this area; calls on the EU to remain vigilant about the political, economic, social and environmental impact of China’s growing investments in Africa;