legal code

"The new authorities have so far made no attempt to replace the existing legal codes with Sharia-inspired legislation," says Mr Sayed.

Beyond his assertions of power, Mr. Ramaswamy is given to citing a blizzard of federal legal codes to back his bluster.

But in law, most legal codes of ethics stipulate that the strategy of unreasonably delaying a trial is clearly an ethical violation.

One in 20 child strip-searches by police were not compliant with legal codes of practice in England and Wales over five years, a report by the Children’s Commissioner has found.

In fact, it was copied from California’s legal code, one of many such laws passed by states and territories in the 1860s and ’70s.