Download or read book The Criminal Law of Sierra Leone written by Bankole Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Criminal Law of Sierra Leone documents the substantive criminal law as it has been applied, expounded, and developed since the introduction of English Common Law, using relevant case-law authorities and illustrations. The author takes a broad approach to the study of the country's criminal law, using cases to highlight and elucidate the principles and rules developed by the courts and also to demonstrate the real world impact of judicial decisions. This study provides an analytical understanding of the country's criminal law principles and doctrines, and the opportunity to critique court decisions from their own perspectives of fairness and justice. The author begins by introducing the courts that exercise criminal jurisdiction in Sierra Leone, an analysis of the specific features of criminal law, and an exposition of its underlying principles, theories, and doctrines as a social control mechanism. He then discusses the basic elements of crime and describes how crimes are classified. Finally, he presents the defenses to criminal liability available under the law and articulates the case for major reforms of the country's criminal law.
Download or read book Universal Jurisdiction The Sierra Leone Profile written by Justice Bankole Thompson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-03-12 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The doctrine of universal jurisdiction has evolved throughout modern times in the context of global criminal justice as a paramount agent of combating impunity emanating from international criminality. Sierra Leone, as a member of the international community and the United Nations, has, in recent times, been a pioneer in the progressive application and development of international criminal law in the African region. Despite this role, the country’s profile, both in terms of the incorporation and application of the doctrine of universal jurisdiction, is deficient in several major respects falling far short of its dual international obligation not to provide safe havens from justice for perpetrators of international crimes and to combat impunity from such criminogenic acts. Hence, a compelling reason for the author to write this book was to provide a seminal scholarly work on the subject articulating the existing state of the law in Sierra Leone and highlighting the deficiencies in the law and factors inhibiting the exercise of universal jurisdiction in this UN member state. It was also to propose necessary substantive and procedural law reforms in the state’s jurisprudence on the subject. The book is recommended reading for practitioners and scholars in international criminal law and related disciplines. Its accessibility is highly enhanced by relevant tables and summaries of each chapter. Justice Rosolu J.B. Thompson is Professor Emeritus of Criminal Justice Studies, Eastern Kentucky University, USA. He was a member of and Presiding Judge in Trial Chamber I of the Special Court for Sierra Leone.
Download or read book The Sierra Leone Special Court and its Legacy written by Charles Chernor Jalloh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 823 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) is the third modern international criminal tribunal supported by the United Nations and the first to be situated where the crimes were committed. This timely, important and comprehensive book is the first to critically assess the impact and legacy of the SCSL for Africa and international criminal law. Contributors include leading scholars and respected practitioners with inside knowledge of the tribunal, who analyze cutting-edge and controversial issues with significant implications for international criminal law and transitional justice. These include joint criminal enterprise; forced marriage; enlisting and using child soldiers; attacks against United Nations peacekeepers; the tension between truth commissions and criminal trials in the first country to simultaneously have the two; and the questions of whether it is permissible under international law for states to unilaterally confer blanket amnesties to local perpetrators of universally condemned international crimes.
Download or read book The Sierra Leone Special Court and Its Legacy written by Charles Jalloh and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Legal Legacy of the Special Court for Sierra Leone written by Charles C. Jalloh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how the first treaty-based UN international tribunal's judges innovatively applied the law to perpetrators of international crimes in one of the worst conflicts in recent history.
Download or read book The Sierra Leone Special Court and Its Legacy written by Charles Jalloh and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assesses the impact and legacy of the Special Court for Sierra Leone for Africa and international criminal law.
Download or read book The Law Reports of the Special Court for Sierra Leone written by Charles Chernor Jalloh and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 2016-03-11 with total page 4969 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Special Court for Sierra Leone was established through signature of a bilateral treaty between the United Nations and the Government of Sierra Leone in early 2002, making it the third modern ad hoc international criminal tribunal. The tribunal has tried various persons, including former Liberian President Charles Ghankay Taylor, for allegedly bearing "greatest responsibility" for serious violations of international humanitarian law committed during the latter half of the Sierra Leonean armed conflict. It completed its work in December 2013. A new Residual Special Court for Sierra Leone, based in Freetown and with offices in The Hague, has been created to carry out its essential “residual” functions. This volume, which consists of three books and a CD-ROM and is edited by two legal experts on the Sierra Leone court, presents, for the first time in a single place, a comprehensive collection of all the interlocutory decisions and final trial and appeals judgments issued by the court in the case Prosecutor v. Charles Ghankay Taylor. The Taylor case is the jewel in the crown of the SCSL, as it was the first ever trial and conviction of a former African head of state for crimes committed in a neighboring state. It is also one of a handful of such significant cases in international criminal law. The Taylor Law Report contains the full text of all substantive judicial decisions, including the majority, separate and concurring as well as dissenting opinions and probably the longest trial judgment ever issued by an international criminal court. It additionally provides relevant information for a better understanding of the case, such as the indictments, a list of admitted exhibits and a list of documents on the case file. This book set, which is the third in a series of edited law reports that follows volume 1 (on Prosecutor v. Brima, Kamara and Kanu – the so-called “AFRC case” published in November 2012) and volume 2 (Prosecutor v. Norman, Fofana and Kondewa – the “CDF case” published in March 2014) seeks to capture the entire jurisprudential legacy of the tribunal, fills the gap for a single and authoritative reference source of the tribunal’s jurisprudence. These law reports, the last volumes of which will be published in 2015 and 2016, are intended for national and international judges, lawyers, academics, students and other researchers as well as transitional justice practitioners in courts, tribunals and truth commissions as well as anyone seeking an accurate record of the trials conducted by the Special Court for Sierra Leone. N.B.: The hardback copy of this title contains a CD-ROM with the scanned decisions that are reproduced in the book and the trial transcripts. The e-book version does not. Buy the complete set of 4 volumes (10 books in total) with a discount see isbn 978-90-04-22161-1. The complete set consists of: Volume 1 isbn 9789004189119 (2 books) Volume 2 isbn 9789004221635 (2 books) Volume 3 isbn 9789004221673 (3 books) Volume 4 isbn 9789004221659 (3 books)
Download or read book The Law Reports of the Special Court for Sierra Leone written by Charles Chernor Jalloh and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09 with total page 1659 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, which consists of three books and a CD-ROM and is edited by two legal experts on the Sierra Leone court, presents, for the first time in a single place, a comprehensive collection of all the interlocutory decisions and final trial and appeals judgments issued by the court in the case Prosecutor v. Charles Ghankay Taylor. The Taylor case is the jewel in the crown of the SCSL, as it was the first ever trial and conviction of a former African head of state for crimes committed in a neighboring state. It is also one of a handful of such significant cases in international criminal law.
Download or read book New Approaches in International Criminal Justice written by Kai Ambos (jurist) and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on four post-conflict situations in Kosovo, East Timor, Sierra Leone and Cambodia. Recognized scholars and practitioners analyse if and how accountability for serious human rights violations is being enforced. Thus, the book is an interdisciplinary inquiry examining the nature of each of these conflicts and the legal framework established for addressing individual criminal responsibility. This methodology provides a combined reading of events, a deeper insight into the reasons for the urge for accountability for individual criminal responsibility. In addition, the book serves as a sourcebook containing an indexed compendium of relevant instruments relating to the new approaches of international criminal justice applied in the countries mentioned.
Download or read book Sierra Leone written by African Human Security Initiative and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sierra Leone provides an interesting case study on the assessment of crime and the criminal justice system. As a country in transition from one-party authoritarianism and 11 years of a fratricidal war, there are serious implications for crime and the functioning of the criminal justice system. State repression, ineffective security and a justice system that has gone through eras of military and single-party dictatorships raise grave concerns about the capacity of the state to ensure the security of citizens and to guarantee the administration of fair and impartial justice. The collapse of the Sierra Leone crime and justice system was emblematic of the failure of the state in its entirety.
Download or read book Guilty Pleas in International Criminal Law written by Nancy Amoury Combs and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International crimes, such as genocide and crimes against humanity, are complex and difficult to prove, so their prosecutions are costly and time-consuming. As a consequence, international tribunals and domestic bodies have recently made greater use of guilty pleas, many of which have been secured through plea bargaining. This book examines those guilty pleas and the methods used to obtain them, presenting analyses of practices in Sierra Leone, East Timor, Cambodia, Argentina, Bosnia, and Rwanda. Although current plea bargaining practices may be theoretically unsupportable and can give rise to severe victim dissatisfaction, the author argues that the practice is justified as a means of increasing the proportion of international offenders who can be prosecuted. She then incorporates principles drawn from the domestic practice of restorative justice to construct a model guilty plea system to be used for international crimes.
Download or read book Sierra Leone Criminal Laws Regulations and Procedures Handbook Strategic Information Regulations Procedures written by IBP. Inc. USA and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sierra Leone Criminal Laws, Regulations and Procedures Handbook - Strategic Information, Regulations, Procedures
Download or read book The Legal Legacy of the Special Court for Serra Leone written by Charles Jalloh and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important book considers whether the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL), which was established jointly through an unprecedented bilateral treaty between the United Nations (UN) and Sierra Leone in 2002, has made jurisprudential contributions to the development of the nascent and still unsettled field of international criminal law. A leading authority on the application of international criminal justice in Africa, Charles Jalloh argues that the SCSL, as an innovative hybrid international penal tribunal, made useful jurisprudential additions on key legal questions concerning greatest responsibility jurisdiction, the war crime of child recruitment, forced marriage as a crime against humanity, amnesty, immunity and the relationship between truth commissions and criminal courts. He demonstrates that some of the SCSL case law broke new ground, and in so doing, bequeathed a 'legal legacy' that remains vital to the ongoing global fight against impunity for atrocity crimes and to the continued development of modern international criminal law.
Download or read book Evaluating Transitional Justice written by K. Ainley and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-16 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major study examines the successes and failures of the full transitional justice programme in Sierra Leone. It sets out the implications of the Sierra Leonean experience for other post-conflict situations and for the broader project of evaluating transitional justice.
Download or read book The Law Reports of the Special Court for Sierra Leone 2 vols written by Charles Chernor Jalloh and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 2014-03-10 with total page 2881 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Special Court for Sierra Leone was established through signature of a bilateral treaty between the United Nations and the Government of Sierra Leone in early 2002, making it the third modern ad hoc international criminal tribunal. The tribunal has tried various persons, including former Liberian President Charles Ghankay Taylor, for allegedly bearing "greatest responsibility" for serious violations of international humanitarian law committed during the latter half of the Sierra Leonean armed conflict. This volume, which consists of two books and a CD-ROM and is edited by two legal experts on the Sierra Leone court, presents, for the first time in a single place, a comprehensive collection of all the interlocutory decisions and final trial and appeals judgments issued by the court in the case Prosecutor v. Norman, Fofana and Kondewa (The CDF Case). It contains the full text of all substantive judicial decisions, including the majority, separate and concurring as well as dissenting opinions. It additionally provides relevant information for a better understanding of the case, such as the indictments, a list of admitted exhibits and a list of documents on the case file. The book, which is the second in a series of edited law reports that will capture the entire jurisprudential legacy of the tribunal, fills the gap for a single and authoritative reference source of the tribunal’s jurisprudence. It is intended for national and international judges, lawyers, academics, students and other researchers as well as transitional justice practitioners in courts, tribunals and truth commissions as well as anyone seeking an accurate record of the trials conducted by the Special Court for Sierra Leone. N.B.: The hardback copy of this title contains a CD-ROM with the scanned decisions that are reproduced in the book and the trial transcripts. The e-book version does not. Buy the complete set of 4 volumes (10 books in total) with a discount see isbn 978-90-04-22161-1. The complete set consists of: Volume 1 isbn 9789004189119 (2 books) Volume 2 isbn 9789004221635 (2 books) Volume 3 isbn 9789004221673 (3 books) Volume 4 isbn 9789004221659 (3 books)
Download or read book Sierra Leone written by Chris Mahony and published by Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher. This book was released on 2015-05-29 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Culture Under Cross Examination written by Tim Kelsall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-22 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the challenges posed by the largely unfamiliar culture in which the Special Court for Sierra Leone operates.
