Download or read book The Sierra Leone Special Court Collection Basic documents written by Claudia Tofan and published by International Courts Association. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Special Court for Sierra Leone is an independent judicial body set up to "try those who bear greatest responsibility" for serious violations, war crimes, and crimes against humanity committed during the Sierra Leone Civil War, which began in 1991 and was declared officially over on January 18, 2002. The Special Court was born at the request of the President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, who, on June 12, 2000, wrote a letter to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan asking the international community to try those responsible for crimes during the conflict. The answer was prompt and on August 14, 2000, the United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 1315 requesting the Secretary-General to start negotiations with the Sierra Leonean government to create a Special Court. On January 16, 2002, the UN and the government of Sierra Leone signed an agreement establishing the Court. The Court is located in Freetown. Currently, eleven people have been indicted by the Special Court, charged with war crimes, crimes against humanity, and other serious violations of international humanitarian law. Indictments against two of the accused were dropped after their deaths. The trials are placed into three groups: Revolutionary United Front, Civil Defence Forces, and Armed Forces Revolutionary Council. This series' presents the reasons that led to the establishment of The Special Court, and offers an overview of the cases brought before The Court. Volumes B-4.1.4. [ISBN 978 90 5887 170 1], B-4.1.5. [ISBN 978 90 5887 171 8], and B-4.1.6. [ISBN 978 90 5887 172 5] present the case of Fofana and Kondewa (Case No. 04-14).
Download or read book The Sierra Leone Special Court Collection written by Claudia Tofan and published by International Courts Assoc. This book was released on 2009 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Special Court for Sierra Leone is an independent judicial body set up to 'try those who bear greatest responsibility' for serious violations , war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the Sierra Leone Civil War which began in 1991 and was declared officially over on 18 January 2002.The Special Court was born at the request of the President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, who on 12 June 2000 wrote a letter to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan asking the international community to try those responsible for crimes during the conflict. The answer was prompt and on 14 August 2000 the United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 1315 requesting the Secretary-General to start negotiations with the Sierra Leonean government to create a Special Court. On 16 January 2002 the UN and Government of Sierra Leone signed an agreement establishing the Court. The Court is located in Freetown. Currently , eleven people have been indicted by the Special Court, charged with war crimes , crimes against humanity and other serious violations of international humanitarian law. Indictments against two of the accused were dropped after their deaths.The trials are placed into 3 groups: Revolutionary United Front, Civil Defence Forces and Armed Forces Revolutionary Council, only one trial, the one of Charles Taylor, was moved to the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Our series'goal is to present the reasons that led to the establishment of The Special Court , and to offer an overview of the cases brought before The Court. We also want to add background materials such as basic documents on the tribunal and documents on the conflict.
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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 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 Law Reports of the Special Court for Sierra Leone written by Charles Chernor Jalloh and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-09-27 with total page 3900 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. Sesay, Kallon and Gabo (The RUF Case)r.
Download or read book The Sierra Leone Special Court and its Legacy written by Charles Jalloh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014 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 Testimony written by Shanee Stepakoff and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-14 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IBPA Benjamin Franklin AwardTM gold winner, poetry category Sierra Leone’s devastating civil war barely caught the attention of Western media, but it raged on for over a decade, bringing misery to millions of people in West Africa from 1991 to 2002. The atrocities committed in this war and the accounts of its survivors were duly recorded by international organizations, but they run the risk of being consigned to dusty historical archives. Derived from public testimonies at a UN-backed war crimes tribunal in Freetown, this remarkable poetry collection aims to breathe new life into the records of Sierra Leone’s civil war, delicately extracting heartbreaking human stories from the morass of legal jargon. By rendering selected trial transcripts in poetic form, Shanee Stepakoff finds a novel way to communicate not only the suffering of Sierra Leone’s people, but also their courage, dignity, and resilience. Her use of innovative literary techniques helps to ensure that the voices of survivors are not forgotten, but rather heard across the world. This volume also includes an introduction that explores how the genre of “found poetry” can serve as a uniquely powerful means through which writers may bear witness to atrocity. This book’s unforgettable excavation and shaping of survivor testimonies opens new possibilities for speaking about the unspeakable.
Download or read book Consolidated Legal Texts for the Special Court for Sierra Leone written by and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a comprehensive collection of the various legal texts relating to the mandate of the Special Court for Sierra Leone. It fills the void for a handy volume of the Court's legal texts for use by judges, lawyers and other practitioners in international criminal courts.
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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: 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.
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Download or read book Temporary Courts Permanent Records written by Trudy Huskamp Peterson and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction -- Courts and their records -- The role of the United Nations -- Users and records of the courts -- Need for an international judicial archives -- Appraising court records -- Evidence -- Access to court records -- Conclusion -- Recommendations.
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