Competent Tribunal is a term used in Article 5 paragraph 2 of the Third Geneva Convention, which states: Should any doubt arise as to whether persons,...

should be determined by a competent tribunal. Until such time, they must be treated as prisoners of war. After a competent tribunal has determined that an...

Convention until such time as their status has been determined by a competent tribunal.") This is most likely because, in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, a plurality...

in the canon law of the Catholic Church Tribunal of the Roman Rota, the highest appellate tribunal competent in most causes in the second and third instances...

federal purposes as someone who: (1) Having taken an oath before a competent tribunal, officer, or person, in any case in which a law of the United States...

status afforded to them as prisoners of war, but only after facing a "competent tribunal". At that point, they become unlawful combatants, but must still be...

Military Commissions Act of 2006, by a Combatant Status Review Tribunal or another competent tribunal established under the authority of the President or the...

provided that they are still willing to serve and considered to be competent. Tribunals are designed to be more informal than 'traditional' courts of law...

otherwise be afforded to them as prisoners of war, but only after a "competent tribunal" has determined that they are not eligible for POW status (e.g., Third...

jure (merely by having committed the act) or by decision of a competent court or tribunal. In the relevant treaties, the distinction between privileged...