Over the last 20 years, international criminal justice has developed rapidly, and most people see this as a change for the better. Thanks to the labors, however imperfect, of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, and of ad-hoc tribunals from Sierra Leone to Cambodia, it has been established that politicians and warlords who commit terrible crimes against the vulnerable can no longer count on impunity.
But a trial now starting in Bangladesh risks making a mockery of that principle.
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| The steady development of international criminal law and of war crimes tribunals in particular over the past 20 years has owed much to the maxim ‘No Peace Without Justice’. But there can be no peace without a winner; and in the aftermath it is the winner who gets to dispense the justice and write the history. All too frequently, the international judicial process has drawn accusations of providing a means of revenge rather than reconciliation. Read more... |
| Al Jazeera interview with Toby Cadman of 9 Bedford Row International on the current crisis in Syria Read more... |
| | Human Rights Watch has raised concerns over intimidation of the Defence that has been taking place at the Bangladesh War Crimes Tribunal. The lack of protection measures for Defence witnesses is apparent as this Tribunal which has been structured to be skewed against the Defence. Read more... |
| The International Criminal Law Bureau has been nominated for the Lexis Nexis Top International & Foreign Law Blog of the Year. Read more... |
| On the 26th October 2011 the Head of the Defence Office at the Special Tribunal for the Lebanon appointed David Young, as lead Counsel to defend Assad Hassan SABRA, one of the four accused in the Rafik Hariri assassination case. Read more... |
| Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, who was killed in Sirte yesterday by rebel Libyan forces, will now join Saddam Hussein, Ben Ali of Tunisia and Egypt's Hosni Mubarak as another fallen dictator of the 1960s generation. A number remain, including Syria’s Bashar al-Assad in Syria. Read more... |
| The International Crimes Tribunal Bangladesh: International Standards and Fundamental Freedoms
Public Statement by the Defence Team Read more... |
| On Tuesday 18 October, John Cammegh of 9BRi is to appear at St Anthony's College, Oxford, to deliver an address on the Bangladesh War Crimes Tribunal (the “Tribunal”) and international law in South Asia. Read more... |
| The 9 Bedford Row International Annual Conference has been rescheduled for 19 November 2011. Read more... |
| The International Crisis Group working out of Nairobi and Brussels has produced a report on the Kenya proceedings just before the ICC Pre-Trial Chamber II is due to return its decision on the confirmation of charges hearing. I can not let it pass without criticism but read it for yourselves. Read more... |
| Toby Cadman presents a statement on behalf of the Syrian Emergency Task Force and Syrian Revolution General Commission to the world's media in Washington, D.C. Read more... |
| The first day of the process known as framing of the charges at the Bangladesh War Crimes tribunal has ended in the Sayedee case. Read more... |
| John Traversi returns from a visit to Mexico where he formed part of a Bar Human Rights Committee delegation, investigating reported abuses of human rights in that country. Read more... |
| Sergei Magnitsky's mother demands justice for the death of her son.
Bill Browder, CEO of Hermitage, will be speaking later this year at the 9 BRi conference and will tell the audience the chilling details of the death of this courageous lawyer at the hands of the Russian authorities Read more... |
| Video of opening statement in ICC confirmation hearing. Read more... |
| The legal argument contesting jurisdiction at the ICC in the Kenya case has been filed by Steven Kay QC and Gillian Higgins of the ICLB and 9 Bedford Row International as counsel acting for Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta. Read more... |
| Steven Kay QC will be presenting a speech upon the principles of complementarity at the ICC for the Sri Lankan Lawyers Association Conference on “Challenges to Reconciliation” Read more... |
| Steven Kay QC the lawyer representing Voice of Beslan in front of the European Court of Human Rights, where they have filed a lawsuit concerning the government's investigation of the attack, will update members on the court case. Read more... |
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