From Nuremberg to The Hague - The Future of International Criminal Justice Part 3 ppsx

... then defined as ‘violations of the laws and customs of war’. The simplic- ity of this definition masks the complexity of the detail of what actually constitutes a violation of the laws and customs ... Cambridge, 19 93) , p. 39 . 30  Issues of complexity, complicity and complementarity: from the Nuremberg trials to the dawn of the new International C...

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... with the crime of apartheid may be tried ‘by a competent tribunal of any state party to the Convention which may acquire jurisdiction of the person of the accused’. 38 After Pinochet: the role of ... on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid, adopted 30 November 19 73, 1015 UNTS 2 43; Annex to General Assembly Resolution 30 68 (XXVIII). 3...

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... London from April to June 2002, organ- ised around the theme From Nuremberg to The Hague: The Future of International Criminal Justice . The five lectures here published trace the historical and ... war crimes, from the machine-gunning of the survivors of sunken ships to the torture of prison- ers -of- war. For this there already existed legal prov...

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... guest -of- honour at a dinner for the Tribunal judges, compelled his companions to raise their glasses in a macabre toast to the defendants:‘May their paths lead straight from the court- house to the ... considered to be an outline of the future foreign policy of Hitler’s Germany. A British Foreign Of ce analysis of the content of the book, writ- The Nure...

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... the Judgment of the Tokyo Tribunal summarising count one of the indictment, at p. 48,421 of the original transcripts, repro- duced in The Tokyo War Crimes Trial: The Complete Transcripts of the ... in the commission of a crime. Secondly, the prosecution must prove that there was participation in that the conduct of the accused contributed to the commissio...

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... strong support for the poten- tial role of national courts, against the background of the principle of ‘complementarity’ found in the Statute of the ICC. But the judgment of the House of Lords has also ... steps in Our story now turns away from a national court to another international court in The Hague, the International Court of Justice (the ICJ,...

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... line of treaties dealt with the suppression of crimes of international The drafting of the Rome Statute 119 9 Report of the International Law Co mmission on the Question of International Criminal ... form of enforcement provision. There was The drafting of the Rome Statute 1 23 15 Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and...

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... separate international criminal justice system. The drafting of the Rome Statute is the history of the move from the first to the second model. The ILC’s procedural model The ILC’s approach was to create ... independent investigatory role to the Prosecutor, prior to the referral of a case and independ- ently of the consent of the states concern...

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... appointment of women to the International Criminal Court be taken seriously by all states parties to the Rome Statute. The under-represen- tation of women on the Court threatens to undermine the legitimacy ... range of gender-based or sex-based crimes, provides certain protections to victims of these crimes, and calls for the inclusion of women in the diffe...

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... some of the functions of the ICC in its pursuit of international criminal justice . I would like to conclude this lecture by focusing on the international aspirations of the ICC when it comes to criminal ... (eds.), The Law of War Crimes: National and International Approaches (Kluwer Law International, London and The Hague, 1997), p. 1 at p. 29. 26 See t...

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