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Abuse of the legal system

  • CorruptionIn 1994, the German Parliamentary Financial Commission in Bonn presented a comparative study on legal corruption in industrialized OECD countries.
  • Star ChamberThe first written reference to the Star Chamber appears in 1398 as the Sterred chambre. A more common form of the name emerged in 1422 as le Sterne-chamere.