Murder in Canton (Judge Dee Mysteries, Book 13) by Robert Van Gulik
By Robert Van Gulik
Homicide in Canton happens within the 12 months 680, as pass judgement on Dee, lately promoted to lord leader justice, is distributed incognito to Canton to enquire the disappearance of a courtroom censor. With assistance from his relied on lieutenants Chiao Tai and Tao Gan, and that of a shrewdpermanent blind lady who collects crickets, Dee solves a posh puzzle of political intrigue and homicide throughout the 3 separate subplots "the vanished censor," "the Smaragdine dancer," and "the Golden Bell."
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29 Columns Design Ltd / Job: Cremona_and_de_Witte / Division: Ch2 /Pg. Position: 8 / Date: 13/6 JOBNAME: Cremona & De Witte PAGE: 11 SESS: 2318 OUTPUT: Thu Jul 3 15:05:50 2008 Much Ado about Pluto? 35 V. LEGAL UNITY AND LEGAL DIVERSITY—RECENT APPROACHES OF THE EUROPEAN COURTS After some 12 years during which the legal problems caused by the ‘cross-pillarisation’ of EU policies played almost no role before the ECJ, they have arrived there within the last few years en masse. Many of the issues brought before the Court concern the choice of legal basis.
15 Cf W Cremer, ‘Vorabentscheidungsverfahren nach Art 177 EGV und mitgliedstaatliche Verfassungsgerichtsbarkeit’ (1999) Bayerische Verwaltungsblätter 266–70. Columns Design Ltd / Job: Cremona_and_de_Witte / Division: Ch2 /Pg. Position: 4 / Date: 3/7 JOBNAME: Cremona & De Witte PAGE: 7 SESS: 2318 OUTPUT: Thu Jul 3 15:05:50 2008 Much Ado about Pluto? 18 However, the Bundesverfassungsgericht did not only disregard the duty of consistent interpretation. It also sent—in the words of Judge LübbeWolff—’dark signals’ to the Court of Justice, by debating whether the limited extradition of Germans amounted to an Entstaatlichung (a loss of core elements of statehood) of the Federal Republic of Germany, which would be inadmissible under the German Constitution.
31 In the circumstances, account has to be taken of the bridge explicitly established at the time of the Maastricht revision between Community actions imposing economic sanctions under Articles 60 EC and 301 EC and the objectives of the Treaty on European Union in the sphere of external relations. , the implementation of a common foreign and security policy. 51 On the basis of this reasoning, and referring also to the single institutional framework and the obligation of consistency laid upon the institutions by Article 3 TEU, the CFI held the use of Articles 60, 301 and 308 TEC as a combined legal basis for the contested Regulation to be legitimate.