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International Law Observer

Is the British Judge on the bench of the first trial at the ICC coming to The Hague?

Today the BBC reports that the four 21/7 bomb plotters get life. The judge of the aforementioned trial, Mr Justice Fulford QC, is also a judge on the bench of the first trial at the ICC. The conclusion of the trial concening the 21/7 bomb plotters means that Judge Fulford is now one step closer to The Hague. In its decision on the 6 March of 2007 the ICC presidency constituted Trial Chamber I of which Judge Fulford is one of the members and through the decision on 5 June 2007 the presidency transferred the full records of the proceedings of the first case to Trial Chamber…