Charges, Evidence, and legal assistance in International Jurisdictions

This book provides a comprehensive guide to the jurisprudence of the criminaltribunals for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and Rwanda (ICTR) and the Special Court ... » 

This book provides a comprehensive guide to the jurisprudence of the criminaltribunals for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and Rwanda (ICTR) and the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) on several important procedural issues: the charging document (indictment), disclosure, access to evidence, admissibility and presentation of evidence, and legal assistance of counsel. The book contains a digest of the relevant decisions, orders and judgements (which are collectively referred to as 'decisions') of the ICTY, ICTR and theSpecial Court (hereinafter ad hoc Tribunals) through December 2004. The CD-ROM which accompanies this book includes the decisions themselves, which are organised topically on the CD-ROM. Most of the decisions on the CD-ROM are in electronically searchable format. The digest, together with the collections of the decisions, will assist practitioners and researchers in studying the jurisprudence of the Tribunals. Thisjurisprudence reflects the current state of international criminal law. It will inevitably influence approaches of international courts, including theInternational Criminal Court (ICC) and 'hybrid' tribunals, as well as national courts. The author also published another book in this series Indictment, disclosure, admissibility of evidence. «