The Annotated Digest of the International Criminal Court (2007) is the second volume of an annual series. It compiles a selection of the most significant legal findings contained in the public decisions rendered by the International Criminal Court in 2007.
2007 is an important year in the life of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Starting with the confirmation of charges against the first arrested person (Lubanga), the period covers the initiation of five new cases (Ntaganda, Katanga, Ngudjolo, Harun, Kushayb). It is also the year of arrest of a second person (Katanga) in the situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The sole number of decisions is enough to show a spectacular increase in the work of the Court over the year: the present volume reviews 234 decisions rendered, or made public, in 2007, that is to say roughly the same number of decisions as in the first volume, which covered years 2004-2006.
Abstracts compiled in this Series have been selected on the basis to the following criteria:
1) abstracts which clarify a point of law, interpret a rule…;
2) abstracts which show how a specific rule is applied by a Chamber;
3) abstracts which are otherwise meaningful with respect to international justice, human rights, international humanitarian law.
Abstracts are quoted in their official English version. Abstracts are inserted under the relevant articles of the Statute, Rules of Procedure and Evidence and Regulations of the Court, with a short description/summary of their precise topic. Where the English version was not available, abstracts are quoted in their original French version, but the short description/summary in English allows readers to identify their contents. A quick reference system and index make it easy to refer to other decisions quoted in the Digests Series.
This Series of Digests is devised, first and foremost, as a tool for practitioners of international criminal law and academics, to assist them in finding easily most relevant findings from ICC case law.
2007 is an important year in the life of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Starting with the confirmation of charges against the first arrested person (Lubanga), the period covers the initiation of five new cases (Ntaganda, Katanga, Ngudjolo, Harun, Kushayb). It is also the year of arrest of a second person (Katanga) in the situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The sole number of decisions is enough to show a spectacular increase in the work of the Court over the year: the present volume reviews 234 decisions rendered, or made public, in 2007, that is to say roughly the same number of decisions as in the first volume, which covered years 2004-2006.
Abstracts compiled in this Series have been selected on the basis to the following criteria:
1) abstracts which clarify a point of law, interpret a rule…;
2) abstracts which show how a specific rule is applied by a Chamber;
3) abstracts which are otherwise meaningful with respect to international justice, human rights, international humanitarian law.
Abstracts are quoted in their official English version. Abstracts are inserted under the relevant articles of the Statute, Rules of Procedure and Evidence and Regulations of the Court, with a short description/summary of their precise topic. Where the English version was not available, abstracts are quoted in their original French version, but the short description/summary in English allows readers to identify their contents. A quick reference system and index make it easy to refer to other decisions quoted in the Digests Series.
This Series of Digests is devised, first and foremost, as a tool for practitioners of international criminal law and academics, to assist them in finding easily most relevant findings from ICC case law.
