tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4441593467864724337.post951767027031664435..comments2024-03-28T20:00:44.639+11:00Comments on East Timor Law and Justice Bulletin: East Timor Legal News 27-28 April 2009Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14359692951995091025noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4441593467864724337.post-30264293805090670652009-05-01T21:52:00.000+10:002009-05-01T21:52:00.000+10:00A law that allows the Parliament to investigate cr...A law that allows the Parliament to investigate criminal matters? Surely, this can not be. For all of the efforts of the UN and the international community as well as the democratic forces within East Timor that have continued the struggle to create a just state firmly rooted in the foundations of the separation of powers, here comes the East Timor National Parliament to abrogate unto itself the powers of the executive and the judicial organs.<br /><br />This does great violence to the rule of law and ought to be condemned for what it is - a gross violation of the constitutive doctrines of democracy.East Timor Law Journalhttp://www.eastimorlawjournal.orgnoreply@blogger.com