Written by Joshua Kern Gabriel M. Lentner’s “The UN Security Council and the International Criminal Court: The Referral Mechanism in Theory and Practice” is a timely
and important contribution. As the title suggests, the monograph (published by Elgar in November 2018) focuses on the relationship between the UN Security Council [...]
Written by Lennart Poulsen This blog considers the concept and application of the principle of universal jurisdiction, its current limitations and its future potential. The
publicity surrounding November’s G20 meeting in Buenos Aires was noticeable for reasons other than the economic and geo-political mainstays that tend to feature [...]
Written by Margaret Owen (pictured), International Trial Observer and Barrister On Wednesday 12th December 2018, Solicitor-Advocate Ali Has, Thomas Phillips of Liverpool University,
and myself arrive in Ankara to attend the sixth hearing of the case against Selahattin Demirtas, former co-chair of Turkey’s HDP (Peoples’ Democratic Party). [...]
The International Criminal Court Bar Association (ICCBA) is organizing a Mindfulness in the Workplace training session, specifically tailored for lawyers, on Friday 11th January
2019 in The Hague. The hour-long session will be led by Gillian Higgins, who in addition to working as an international criminal barrister at The Chambers of 9 Bedford [...]
The 13th Annual Meeting of the International Criminal Defence Lawyers Germany – ICDL eV – will take place in Berlin at the Hotel InterContinental on 26th January 2019.
The meeting will last the whole day from: 09:00 – 20:30. The event will include speeches and contributions from many respected legal professionals, including Associate [...]
Steven Kay QC to speak at Browne Jacobson ‘fraud and wrongdoing’ seminar on Thursday 22nd November 2018 in London. The event will be held at the Double Tree Hilton, Tower
of London, and will run from 6.30pm – 9.30pm. [...]
Steven Kay QC spoke at the IBA Annual Conference in Rome today on: The business link to international crime: individual and state liability under the arms sales treaty, the
Palermo Convention on the financing of terrorism activities, and international criminal law. [...]
Cooperation between national and international judicial authorities: 20 years after the signing of the Rome Statute, is cooperation the pitfall of international criminal justice?
In July 1998, amid celebrations and high hopes, the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (the ‘Court‘) was signed to establish the first permanent [...]
On 4th October 2018 the Centre for Criminology at the University of Oxford and the ICCBA are hosting a one-day workshop on victim participation at the International Criminal
Court. It will focus on certain elements of victim participation, including theoretical and jurisprudential developments, reparation jurisprudence, as well as ethical, [...]
Egypt’s Freedom and Justice Party lost their claim for judicial review of the decision of the UK Foreign Secretary and the Director of Public Prosecutions that a member of
a special mission had immunity from arrest. [...]
