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"This guarantee not only applies to courts and tribunals addressed in the second sentence of this paragraph of article 14, but must also be respected whenever domestic law entrusts a judicial body with a judicial task."

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UN (CCPR): General Comment No. 32: Right to Equality Before Courts and Tribunals and to Fair Trial (Article 14), para. 7

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General Comment No. 32: Right to Equality Before Courts and Tribunals and to Fair Trial (Article 14)

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The guarantee to equality before the courts extends to judicial bodies entrusted with any judicial task (including customary and religious courts).