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"This house would grant amnesty to dictators who voluntarily leave office "
Infoslide

Amnesty is a government decision to forgive people for certain offenses and to offer them immunity from prosecution.

Asia Schools Open - Asian Parliamentary (Winter Edition) 2025 · 15-and-Under Grandfinals · 2025-01-18
"This house would grant amnesty to dictators who voluntarily leave office "
Infoslide

Amnesty is a government decision to forgive people for certain offenses and to offer them immunity from prosecution.

Asia Schools Open - Asian Parliamentary (Winter Edition) 2025 · 17-and-Under Grand Finals · 2025-01-18
This house regrets the rise of facial recognition technology by law enforcement agencies.
Infoslide

Facial recognition technology (FRT) uses software to detect and analyze distinctive facial features, then match them against digital image databases. In recent years, law enforcement agencies worldwide have increasingly adopted this technology to identify individuals, track persons of interest, and search for suspects by scanning feeds from public cameras or body-worn devices. The technology often relies on large datasets, which can include images drawn from public spaces, social media, and other sources.

Hart House Winter Open 2025 · Junior Quarterfinals · 2025-01-18
This house believes that governments in Latin America should pursue an integration over segregation policy in prisons for gangs
Infoslide

In order to combat rising gang violence and prison overcrowding, governments generally engage one of two gang imprisonment policies. One is a segregating policy, where the government allocates certain prisons to individual gangs, only putting members of one gang in each facility. The other is an integration policy, where the government places multiple gangs within a singular prison.

North American Debating Championships 2025 · Round 6 · 2025-01-18
This house prefers the English Rule over the American Rule
Infoslide

In Criminal Justice, the American Rule for paying lawyer fees requires each party to pay its own lawyers, regardless of winning or losing a case. On the other hand, the English Rule requires the losing party to pay the winner’s lawyer fees, alongwith their own lawyer fees.

The 17th Christ University Parliamentary Debate 2025 · Open Pre Quarter Finals · 2025-01-17
This house, as Silco, W surrender Jinx
Infoslide

Silco is the powerful and ruthless leader of Zaun, an impoverished area under the oppressive rule of the nation of Piltover, where poverty, crime, and addiction are rampant. He seeks to liberate them from Piltover, willing to resort to brutal and unethical methods to achieve that goal. Recently, Silco's adoptive daughter, Jinx, committed a terrorist attack against Piltover escalating tensions between the nations. The Piltover Council is willing to give Zaun blanket amnesty, access to trade routes, and freedom, essentially securing its independence. In exchange for this, Silco has to surrender Jinx to Piltover.

6th Mindanao Novice Cup · Round 3 · 2025-01-17
This house believes that doctors should report all cases of suspected domestic violence to the police
The 17th Christ University Parliamentary Debate 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-01-17
In cases of inter-religious violence with a politician as the convict, This house would expand the scope of criminal liability to the leadership of the political party to which the politician belongs
The 17th Christ University Parliamentary Debate 2025 · Open Quarter Finals · 2025-01-17
In criminal lawsuits against politicians on the grounds of corruption, This house would reduce the burden of proof to reach a conviction to a "balance of probabilities" rather than "beyond all reasonable doubt"
Infoslide

A balance of probabilities" refers to a burden of proof of "more likely than unlikely", or 51%. That's in opposition to the burden of "beyond reasonable doubt", sometimes equivocated to 98% likelihood, in which the prosecution ought to prove guilt is overwhelmingly likely. In the status quo, criminal lawsuits require a burden of proof of "beyond reasonable doubt" to end in conviction, whereas civil lawsuits require a "balance of probabilities"

The 17th Christ University Parliamentary Debate 2025 · Open Pre Quarter Finals · 2025-01-17
This house believes that social media and communication platforms (eg. Telegram, WhatsApp and Facebook) should actively cooperate with law enforcement in the crackdown of illegal activities on their platforms, even at the expense of undermining their encryption and privacy policies.
Eunoia Debating Championships 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-01-17
This House as the environmental movement would support the use of extremist tactics
Infoslide

<div>Extremist tactics includes the destruction of property and large-scale civil disobedience i.e blocking roads and buildings</div><div><br></div>

English College Open 2025 · Quarterfinals · 2025-01-17
In states of high crime, This house supports the use of 'Cowboys,' in capturing high-profile criminals instead of relying on formal law enforcement agencies.
Infoslide

"Cowboys" are independent bounty hunters who operate outside the conventional justice system, guided by a personal code of honor and autonomy, unlike traditional bounty hunters motivated purely by profit.They are hired to capture criminals for bounties and receive compensation for successful captures. While law enforcement agencies may have limited resources and bureaucratic constraints, Cowboys provide a more flexible and incentivized approach to capturing criminals.

6th Mindanao Novice Cup · Round 3 · 2025-01-17
This house believes that it is justified for states to withhold real-time stock trading information (eg. stricter crackdown against insider trading, suppressing price movement data, and etc.) in times of recession
6th Mindanao Novice Cup · Double-Octofinals · 2025-01-17
This house believes that it is justified for states to withhold real-time stock trading information (eg. stricter crackdown against insider trading, suppressing price movement data, and etc.) in times of recession
6th Mindanao Novice Cup · High School Double-Octofinals · 2025-01-17
This house would allow convicted criminals to opt for the Cognify Prison Model as an alternative to serving their prison sentence
Infoslide

Cognify is a prison model where offenders are sent into Matrix-style pods in a high-tech facility. There, they are fitted with headsets that implant artificial memories from the victim's perspective (while the crime took place, its aftermath etc.) directly into their brains. This process, intended to last only a few minutes, exists to impose physical and psychological suffering on individuals. However, it does not impose direct physical harm.

Winter Debate Symposium 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-01-11
This house would nationalize all provision of legal services
CIDA Novice Cup 2025 · College Quarterfinals · 2025-01-11
This house prefers a world where all people have complete, perfect memory of everything they've experienced
Winter Debate Symposium 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-01-11
In areas with high crime rates, This house would relax enforcement of privacy rights (allowing phone tapping, government surveillance, etc.)
- Privacy
- Criminal Justice
- Law
- Police
Winter Debate Symposium 2025 · Pre-Novice Finals · 2025-01-11
The parliament does not support predictive policing.
ফরচুন ট্রাভেলস লিমিটেড নিবেদিত ১ম মুক্তি ও গণতন্ত্র জাতীয় বিতর্ক উৎসব ২০২৫" আন্তঃবিশ্ববিদ্যালয় পর্য · Semifinals · 2025-01-11
This House Would replace human judges with Artificial Intelligence.
Asia Junior BP 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-01-04