military tribunals
Wartime justice panels
Military tribunals are courts in which military personnel serve as judges, trying cases under military law rather than civilian courts.
They handle military justice matters like courts-martial, but also try enemy combatants, war criminals, or civilians in wartime or occupied territories: The prisoners were tried before a military tribunal.
Such tribunals often lack protections afforded in civilian courts—no jury, limited appeals, relaxed evidence rules—making them controversial when applied to non-soldiers.
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- Nuremberg principlesPost-war tribunal legal doctrines
- war crimesIllegal acts during conflict
- trialsFormal legal proceedings
- enemy combatantsHostile armed opponents
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Courts handling private disputes
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