DRC Sample Clauses

DRC. The term “DRC” shall mean Diamond Resources Co. DRC is a lease brokerage company located in Williston, North Dakota and is the lease broker that the Parties agree to use to acquire new leases within the Contract Area.

DRC. Diamond Resorts Corporation, a Maryland corporation, and its successors or assigns.

DRC. The failed creation of the Special Xxxxxxxx/Court in the DRC illustrates perhaps most directly the tension between the need for specialized jurisdiction and the concern for la pérennité of the broader justice system. The reasons enumerated by the Senate in its August 2011 rejection of the Ministry’s bill illustrate the divergent views held by international and domestic actors over the benefit of such a mechanism. As noted, Committee members voiced serious concerns about the potentially unsettling impact that a Special Court would have on the Congolese judiciary and the risk that it would “lead to a duplication of jurisdictions.”636 The incorporation of international staff also appears to have been one of the main reasons for the Senate’s rejection of the bill. In the Committee’s words: The integration of foreign judges in this national jurisdiction, under the pretext of ensuring the effectiveness and independence of the judiciary, would appear to be an admission of powerlessness on the part of the Government, which itself has the duty to strengthen the capacities of Congolese judges and would be an insult to them.637 The Committee also noted that, “the adoption of a special status for the judges of this [Special] Court is likely to create discrimination between them on the one hand and the 634 UN Mapping Report, paras. 1038, 1044, 1055. Notably, the DRC’s projet de loi also noted the ability of a “hybrid composition” to “reinforce the independence integrity and capacity of Congolese magistrates.” 635 STK Amendment Bill, XX Xxxxxx Mungatana. 636 Rapport Relatif au Projet de Loi (“la creation d’une Cour specialisee avec les memes competences entrainerait un dedoublement de juridictions, avec risqué de litispendance”) (author’s translation). 637 Rapport Relatif au Projet de Loi (“l’intégration des magistrats étrangers au sein de cette juridiction nationale, sous prétexte d'assurer l'efficacité et l'indépendance de la justice, apparaitrait comme un aveu d'impuissance de la part du Gouvernement charge de renforcer les capacités des magistrats congolais et serait une injure pour ces derniers”) (author’s translation). other judges in other jurisdictions, on the other.”638 Opponents of the proposed STK raised similar concerns during parliamentary debates.639 In some respects, concerns about the Special Court’s potentially distorting impact have been realized in the functioning of the DRC’s mobile courts, where international donor influence looms large. Here, excep...