This Article shall not prejudice the trial and punishment of any person for any act or omission which, at the time when it was committed, was criminal according to the general principles of law recognised by civilised nations . }}
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39 Individuals are therefore entitled to effective judicial protection of the rights they derive from the Community legal order, and the right to such protection is one of the general principles of law stemming from the constitutional traditions common to the Member States.
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38 The European Community is, however, a community based on the rule of law in which its institutions are subject to judicial review of the compatibility of their acts with the Treaty and with the general principles of law which include fundamental rights.
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""'K�c�kdeveci v Swedex GmbH & Co KG " "'( 2010 ) C-555 / 07 is a leading EU labour law case, which held that there is a general principle of law in all European Union member states, against discrimination, and in favour of equal treatment.
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And in unusually tough language Thursday, U . N . Secretary-General Kofi Annan called on Israel to immediately halt " targeted assassinations, " saying they are " contrary not only to international law, in particular human rights law, but also to general principles of law ."
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In order to protect athletes and their rights in the area of disciplinary procedure, the general principles of law, such as the right to a hearing, the right to legal assistance, and the right to present evidence and call witnesses, will be confirmed and incorporated into all applicable procedures.
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The classical enumeration of those sources is in Article 38 ( 1 ) of the 1946 Statute of the International Court of Justice and comprise : treaties, customary international law, general principles of law ( and as a subsidiary measure judicial decisions and the most highly qualified juristic writings ).
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In the 19th century, legal positivists rejected the idea that international law could come from any source that did not involve state will or consent, but were prepared to allow for the application of general principles of law, provided that they had in some way been accepted by states as part of the legal order.
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:" " the Court considers it as amounting to an overriding general principle of law that, in absence of express provision to the contrary, an attribution of territory must " ipso facto " carry with it the waters appurtenant to the territory attributed " ( ?07 Report and Decision of the Court of Arbitration ) ."
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Civil law practitioners, however, traditionally refer to their system in a broad sense as " jus commune ", literally " common law ", meaning the general principles of law as opposed to laws peculiar to particular areas . ( The use of " common law " for the Anglo-Saxon systems may or may not be influenced by this usage .)
