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The Prosecutor of the ICC, Mr Luis Moreno Ocampo, made a statement before the Security Council on 16 May 2012 with regard to the situation in Libya. For the full text of his statement click here. The full text of the third report of the OTP to the Security Council of the United Nations is [...]
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In speaking about the Office of the Prosecutor’s (OTP) experience in respecting complementarity at the International Criminal Court ‐ Pacific Outreach Roundtable in Sydney, the Prosecutor-elect, Ms Fatou Bensouda stated that the Court will only do a few cases. She emphasized that conducting these cases according to the highest international legal standards is important. Ms [...]
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In light of the strong impact that the amendments to the Regulations of the Registry could bring to the judicial proceedings of the Court, the Registry of the ICC has invited international law experts to provide their comments on these amendments. You may find the Regulations of the Registry with proposed amendments here: English | French Comments on [...]
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Today the government of Libya, represented by Professor Philippe Sands QC, Professor Payam Akhavan and Ms Michelle Butler, filed a submission with the International Criminal Court (ICC) pursuant to Article 19 of the ICC Statute (click here for the full text). The application was brought under Article 19(2)(b) of the Rome Statute, to challenge the [...]
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Through the Brighton Declaration adopted at the High Level Conference on the Future of the European Court of Human Rights meeting at Brighton on 19 and 20 April 2012 at the initiative of the United Kingdom Chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe the Member States of the European Convention on [...]
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On 27 April 2012, the General Assembly and the Security Council of the United Nations elected Mr. Dalveer Bhandari as a Member of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), with immediate effect. Of Indian nationality, Mr. Bhandari succeeds Mr. Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh (Jordan), former judge and Vice-President of the Court, who resigned last year. Pursuant to [...]
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* This post is based on the SCSL Press Release (Outreach and Public Affairs Office) of 26 April 2012 and includes only minor changes. Charles Ghankay Taylor, the former President of Liberia, was convicted on 26 April 2012 on all counts of an 11-count indictment which alleged that he was responsible for crimes committed by [...]
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With thanks to Tamara Takacs for bringing this to my attention! ‘Human rights and EU crisis management operations: a duty to respect and to protect?’ Workshop organised by the T.M.C. Asser Instituut and the Centre for the Law of EU External Relations (CLEER) in cooperation with the Netherlands Defense Academy on 25 May 2012 at the T.M.C. Asser [...]
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Introduction On 4 April 2012, Pre-Trial Chamber I issued its ‘Decision Regarding the Second Request by the Government of Libya for Postponement of the Surrender of Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi’. This is a short, but very interesting decision (nine pages long). In the dispositif, the Chamber rejected Libya’s Second Postponement Request and reiterated its request that [...]
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* Prepared on the basis of ICJ Press Release No. 2012/13, 21 March 2012. The public hearings in the case concerning Questions Relating to the Obligation to Prosecute or Extradite (Belgium v. Senegal) currently pending before the International Court of Justice (ICJ or Court) opened on Monday, 12 March, and concluded on Wednesday, 21 March 2012. [...]
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(cross-posted from EJIL:Talk) This is a reply to the post by Marko Milanovic entitled ‘Judging Judges: A Statistical Exercise’. His starting point is a paragraph by Andrea Bianchi’s post ‘On Certainty’ which speaks about certainty in international law, based on the ICJ’s decision in the Jurisdictional Immunities of the State case. As Bianchi notes in [...]
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* Based on the ICC Press Release ICC-CPI-20120314-PR776 of 14 March 2012 (available here) Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (ICC) decided unanimously that Thomas Lubanga Dyilo is guilty, as a co-perpetrator, of the war crimes of conscripting and enlisting children under the age of 15 and using them to participate actively in [...]
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Five judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) were sworn in at a ceremony held at the seat of the Court in The Hague on 9 March 2012. Judges Howard Morrison (United Kingdom), Anthony T. Carmona (Trinidad and Tobago), Olga Herrera Carbuccia (Dominican Republic), Robert Fremr (Czech Republic) and Chile Eboe-Osuji (Nigeria) were elected by [...]
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* Based on an ASIL announcement of 1 March 2012. Call for Scholarly Papers ASIL Research Forum The American Society of International Law calls for submissions of scholarly paper proposals for the ASIL Research Forum to be held at the University of Georgia School of Law on October 20-21, 2012. The Research Forum, a Society [...]
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Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (ICC) will deliver its decision in the Thomas Lubanga Dyilo case in a public hearing on 14 March 2012 at 10.00 a.m. (The Hague local time). More information on the Lubanga case can be accessed here. The Special Court for Sierra Leone will deliver its judgment in [...]
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In November 2011, the Registry of the ICC requested Trial Chamber I instructions on victim’s applications for participation and reparations in the Lubanga case. The Registry had received 27 new applications to participate in the proceedings and 25 new applications for reparations, which appeared to be linked to the case. Trial Chamber I issued its [...]
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On 26 January 2012 the European Court of Human Rights held its annual press conference. On this occasion, Sir Nicolas Bratza, the President of the Court, presented a summary of the Court’s activities and its statistics for 2011. Among others he said that the European governments must assume their part of the shared responsibility for [...]
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Judge Peter Tomka (Slovakia) was elected President of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) by his peers and Judge Bernardo Sepúlveda-Amor (Mexico) was elected Vice-President, each for a term of three years. Their biographies can be accessed here and here. Congratulations and best of luck to them with these important functions! The composition of the [...]
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The International Court of Justice (ICJ or Court) issued its eagerly-awaited judgment in the case Jurisdictional Immunities of the State (Germany v. Italy: Greece intervening). This judgment basically holds that Italy has violated its obligation to respect the immunity enjoyed by Germany under international law. Here below follows the Court’s Press Release No. 2012/7 with [...]
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Election of the successor to Judge Al-Khasawneh (Jordan) fixed for 27 April 2012 The United Nations Security Council has fixed Friday 27 April 2012 as the date for the election, by the Security Council and the General Assembly, of a successor to Mr. Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh, former judge and Vice-President of the International Court of [...]
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