Review March 30, 2021May 6, 2021 by Mariana Pena IER Blog Series: Back to Basics – Improving ICC Investigations …experts agree with the OTP that feasibility could be relevant to prioritize investigations once opened, including in relation to decisions to hibernate situations (see below) (paras. 653, 661, 676-677, R244)….
Review March 29, 2021May 6, 2021 by Christian De Vos IER Blog Series: Preliminary Examinations and Complementarity …later, for (requesting authorization for) investigations relates to the increasing number of situations before the OTP and its insufficiency of resources” (paras. 642-643). The experts also observed that a lack…
Review February 25, 2021May 6, 2021 by Mariana Pena IER Blog Series: The ICC’s Engagement with Local Communities …situation countries, and that ICC staff and officials lack sufficient familiarity with those situations (e.g., paras. 557, 782). The experts propose solutions to the court’s insufficient field engagement and deficient…
Review February 22, 2021May 6, 2021 by Fiona McKay IER Blog Series: Raising the Bar for ICC Judges’ Professional Development …The experts find the current short induction program for newly elected judges “highly insufficient” for acquiring a full understanding of the court’s unique features and practice (paras. 414–415). Consequently, they…
November 4, 2015March 16, 2018 by Anne-Marie Verwiel and Karlijn van der Voort Corporation Acquitted of Contempt at the Lebanon Tribunal …indeed nothing approaching a universal model or a consensus across national systems) on which I can rely” (paras. 59 and 61). In the absence of any international consensus on this…
Thomas Lubanga June 11, 2015September 2, 2020 by Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice Appeals Chamber Decision on Reparations in the Lubanga Case …Legal Representatives of Victims V02 with the OPCV. [xliv] ICC-01/04-01/06-3129, paras 155-156. [xlv] ICC-01/04-01/06-3129, paras 161-162; ICC-01/04-01/06-3129-AnxA, paras 73-74. [xlvi] ICC-01/04-01/06-3129, paras 160, 162. [xlvii] ICC-01/04-01/06-3129, paras 163-168. [xlviii] ICC-01/04-01/06-3129,…
October 13, 2014March 15, 2018 by Anne-Marie Verwiel and Karlijn van der Voort STL Appeals Chamber Decides It Can Prosecute Legal Persons for Contempt …of the rule of law” (paras. 83-84). The Appeals Chamber indeed admits that there is ambiguity in the definition of the word “person” (para. 85) but by analyzing case law…
Germain Katanga & Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui June 3, 2014September 2, 2020 by Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice Statement from Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice on Katanga Sentencing Judgment …2009, available at: http://www.iccwomen.org/news/docs/Katanga-Statement.pdf ______________________________________________________ [i]ICC-01/04-01/07-3436, p 709-710. [ii]ICC-01/04-01/07-3436, p 710. [iii]ICC-01/04-01/07-3462, paras 3-4. [iv] The cases were joined on 10 March 2008. ICC-01/04-01/07-257. [v]The Prosecution had charged and the…
Germain Katanga & Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui May 16, 2014September 2, 2020 by Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice ICC partially convicts Katanga in third Trial Judgment, acquitting Katanga of rape and sexual slavery …Statute. [xxxii] ICC-01/04-01/07-3436, para 982. [xxxiii] ICC-01/04-01/07-3436, paras 983-984, citing Elements of Crimes, Articles 7(1)(g)-2(4) and 8(2)(e)(vi)-2(4). [xxxiv] ICC-01/04-01/07-3436, para 986. [xxxv] ICC-01/04-01/07-3436, paras 988, 994. [xxxvi] ICC-01/04-01/07-3436-AnxI, paras 152-154…
Germain Katanga & Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui January 16, 2014September 2, 2020 by Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice Prosecution appeals Trial Chamber II's judgement acquitting Ngudjolo …[xxxi] ICC-01/04-02/12-39-Red2, para 66, citing ICC-01/04-02/12-3, paras 164, 199, 500. (Emphasis in original). [xxxii] ICC-01/04-02/12-39-Red2, paras 72, 74. [xxxiii] ICC-01/04-02/12-39-Red2, paras 72, 83, 85. [xxxiv] ICC-01/04-02/12-39-Red2, paras 104-109. Witness 250,…
