Courts face growing challenges in assessing digital evidence in international crime trials. A new guide aims to help judges verify online information.
- Professor of Law, Swansea University
The recent acquittals should be seen as a vindication of the ICC as an independent and impartial judicial institution.
Acts of rape and sexual slavery committed by members of a Congolese armed group against other members are war crimes within the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court.
Criminal responsibility is a question of answerability; it declares certain actions to be wrong and calls those who are accused of having perpetrated such wrongs to answer for their actions.
A four year trial and several years of deliberation later, and an international tribunal is to decide on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity.
By declining to stop an unfair trial and a batch of death sentences in Libya, the world’s court has yet again proved its fecklessness.
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