Amendmend II - Apolytonian Court Mk. III

[Moral Hazard]

Sorry Captain missed your question. Decimal odds are done like this if the odds are say 2.00 then a $10 stake would return $20, 1.50 odds would return $15 etc. basically just multiply the odds by your stake and that your returns. Oh and you don't get your stake back you just get your returns, so you'll never see anything below 1. Its better than American odds which quite frankly still confuse me.

[Ninot]

nm, spam post, sorry

[jdjdjd]

Captain, thanks for the final draft. Ok by me.

[BigRed515]

I'm not sure if it's too late to change the ammend, but if it is, a couple important things to include:

I think we should include in this ammendment a couple or rules about the presentation of cases, representaion, and other procedural details so that we can ensure the cases go as quickly and efficently as possible. For example, putting in a rule to have only one representative for each side than can present a case to the court, so that we don't have 200-post long threads of people piggy-backing off each other's cases.

As a collary to that, time limits for presenting the case, so that the presenters know the amount of time they have to confer with the other supporters on their side to present the case.

A quick format for case presentation would make things easier on the judges and the public in reviewing cases.

Finally, I'm not sure if this would make a big difference or not depending on how many cases go in front of the court, but it might be wise to indicate whether the judges pay attention to precedent, or whether each case must be taken seperately on the merits of the case.

The example clauses I was thnking of for this part of the ammend:

3. Procedure of the Court:

a. Only one individual may present a case to the court. This person must either:
i. Be the citizen who brought the Issue before the court

ii. Be directly and specifically appointed by the citizen who brought the Issue before the court

b. Only one individual can defend a case before the court, This person must either:

i. Be the individual who the case has been brought against

ii. Be the directly and specifically appointed representative of the individual who the case has been brought against

iii. Be the directly and specifically appointed representative fo the group who the case has been brought against

iv. Be appointed by the President and approved by a majority of the Ministers if the suit is not brought against an individual or group

c.The case breif must be presented to the Court in full by the within 48 hours of the acceptance of the case

d. The breif must be presented to the court in the following format:

CLAIMANT: (person who brought the issue)
REPRESENTATIVE: (If different than the Claimant)
STATEMENT OF THE CLAIM: (breif title of the claim, 1 sentence at most)
FACTS OF THE CLAIM: (as long as needs to be. Only facts, such as "the election occured from ddmmyyyy through ddmmyyyy", not opinions)
ARGUMENT OF THE CLAIMANT: (opinions)

The respondant must present a breif following the above formate, except that the word "claim be replaced by "response"

e. The Court will give the full weight of precedence to the decisions of the pat, except when decisions of the past contradict. When cases of the past contradict, the more recent case will be given precedence.

--Sorry for the long post, but this is about a court, and law is long and boring --

[Panag]

hi ,

Trip ; it seems great the way it is !

, some countries in the real world should take an example on it

have a nice day

[jdjdjd]

BigRed,

We went this way ( the amendment is already up for a vote), I think mainly because to get into greater procedual detail would be to tie the hands of the court, to practice something that may turn out to be inefficient when applied to practice. The prcedural details will have to be hashed out by the court itself once it starts to operate. Also, in case we were to set up some type of procedure that did not work, the constitution would have to be amended if some procedure turned out to be inefficient.

We created the court, time and practice will get the rest down.

[BigRed515]

Sorry, didn't see the poll was already up. That's what I get for posting at work.

[Kuciwalker]

I don't really care about individual things, those can be worked out later, but it is a definate priority to actually get this up and running.