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Admittedly, the quality of the justice system in most transitional contexts tends to be low, making resort to the courts on procedural fairness violations unlikely when the commission is still in operation. But this is beside the point. Truth commissions, no less than courts, should apply high standards of procedural fairness for their own sake. No one would suggest that fair trial standards are irrelevant because they are difficult to discharge. The same logic should apply to truth commissions.

Admittedly, the quality of the justice system in most transitional contexts tends to be low, making resort to the courts on procedural fairness violations unlikely when the commission is still in operation. But this is beside the point. Truth commissions, no less than courts, should apply high standards of procedural fairness for their own sake. No one would suggest that fair trial standards are irrelevant because they are difficult to discharge. The same logic should apply to truth commissions.

This is the html version of the file http://students.law.ucdavis.edu/LSA/files/outlines/Civ%20Pro%20-%20Unknown%20-%200203.doc. Google automatically generates html versions of documents as we crawl the web. CIV PRO OUTLINE As of 5/1 1. WHAT'S CIVIL PROCEDURE? 1. Prescribes and administers process for enforcing rights and duties specified in substantive law 2. EVOLUTION OF CIVIL PROCEDURE (pgs. 18-32) 1. Significant Anglo-Saxon institutions at time of conquest: 1. Crown 2. Local tribunals 1. Slow and uncertain in operation 2. Earliest forms of royal intervention 1. Executive 2. Administrative 3. Writ 1. Written directive from king to royal official/to individual/group of individuals ordering addressees to do/refrain from doing designated act 2. Procedural steps by which prosecuted not uniform 3. Praecipe 1. Executive command made without inquiry 4. Novel disseisin/querela 1. Derived from procedure in which judicial inquest of complaints heard first and then executive action followed 4. king's direct entertainment of complaints of subjects 3. Early evolution of royal courts 1. Medieval central government 1. King's court/curia regis 2. Why separate branches? 1. Administrative necessity for orderly record keeping 2. Historical fact that early Plantagenet kings had domains in France that were more important to them than England and which required their presence on continent for long periods of time (king absent a lot) 4. Common law procedure 1. Background of all medieval litigation was hope of bringing parties to some sort of voluntary accord

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