ICC & ICL Programme Commentaries

Commentaries

• IBA Comments on ICC Draft Legal Aid Policy (December 2018)
• IBA comments on the International Criminal Court Legal Aid Scheme (June 2017) 
  The International Bar Association (IBA) is committed to supporting the work of the International Criminal Court (ICC or Court). As the IBA has previously stated, legal aid is a fundamental component of the ICC’s administration of justice, and is due both consideration and analysis.

Position Papers

• Priorities and Recommendations for the 19th Session of the International Criminal Court Assembly of States Parties
  This paper sets out the priorities and recommendations of the International Bar Association (IBA) International Criminal Court and International Criminal Law (ICC & ICL) Programme for the 19th session of the International Criminal Court Assembly of States Parties (ASP), taking place from 14-16 December 2020 in The Hague, and from 17-23 December in New York.
• Recommendations of the International Bar Association ICC & ICL Programme to the Independent Expert Review of the International Criminal Court (April 2020)
  The IBA ICC & ICL Programme acknowledges the importance of the Independent Expert Review’s mandate to ‘identify ways to strengthen the International Criminal Court and the Rome Statute system’ and welcomes the opportunity to provide this submission to the Group of Experts. In this paper, the IBA identifies and recommends measures to resolve a number of serious fair trial concerns, including defence and legal aid issues, which it urges the Experts to consider and address in the course of the Review.
• International Bar Association Comments on the Mandate of the Group of Independent Experts (February 2020)
  This paper sets out the comments of the IBA on the Mandate of the Group of Independent Experts.
• Priorities and Recommendations for the 18th Session of the International Criminal Court Assembly of States Parties
  This paper sets out the priorities and recommendations of the International Bar Association (IBA) International Criminal Court and International Criminal Law (ICC & ICL) Programme for the 18th session of the International Criminal Court Assembly of States Parties (ASP), taking place from 2–7 December 2019 in The Hague.
• IBA Priorities and Recommendations for the 16th Session of the International Criminal Court Assembly of States Parties
  This paper sets out the priorities and recommendations of the IBA ICC & ICL programme for the 16th session of the International Criminal Court Assembly of States Parties, taking place from 4–14 November 2017 in New York
• IBA Priorities and Recommendations for the 15th Session of the International Criminal Court Assembly of States Parties 
  This paper sets out the priorities and recommendations of the IBA ICC & ICL programme for the 15th session of the International Criminal Court Assembly of States Parties, taking place from 16–24 November 2016 in The Hague

• Towards an ICC Association of Counsel (An IBA discussion paper), November 2015 
  The IBA hopes that this paper will stimulate dialogue by presenting some ideas and identifying some key issues of principle drawn from IBA experience and observations of international criminal courts.

• IBA's Legal Opinion on the Proposed Amendment to Rule 68
  

  IBA's Legal Opinion on the proposed amendment to Rule 68 of the ICC's Rules of Procedure and Evidence, prepared by IBA ICC Programme Manager Clair Duffy and circulated during the Assembly of States Parties' 12th session in November 2013

• Including the Defence Perspective in the Review Conference
  

  IBA Position Paper for the resumed session of the eighth Assembly of States Parties and the 2010 International Criminal Court Review Conference, March 2010

Presentations

• Statement of Kate Orlovsky, Director of the International Bar Association ICC & ICL Programme to the Cooperation Plenary at the Eighteenth Assembly of States Parties
  5 December 2019

• Address to the plenary on cooperation during the 14th session of the ICC's Assembly of States Parties
  20 November 2015

• Address to the Plenary on State Cooperation during the ICC's Assembly of States Parties' 12th session
  

  IBA ICC Programme Director, Lorraine Smith van Lin's Address to the ASP on issues of witness and victim protection, 22 November 2013

• IBA presents at the EU Council Working Group on Public International Law (COJUR) in Brussels
  IBA presentations to COJUR, 3 November 2016, 12 October 2015, 2 June 2014, 25 September 2013, 4 June 2013, and 5 March 2013.

• IBA meets with members of EU Parliament at Coalition for the ICC
  

  IBA presentation to the MEPs, 25 May 2013 

• Engaging the Legal Profession
  

  IBA presentation at the International Criminal Court (ICC) Ninth Seminar of Counsel, 17 May 2011

• Comments by the International Bar Association (IBA) on the Proposed Programme Budget of the International Criminal Court for 2009
  

  Presentation to the Committee on Budget and Finance, 2009

• Comments on Draft report of the Court on legal aid: Alternative models for assessment of indigence
  

  IBA Presentation to the Hague Working Group,  15 July 2009

• How the International Criminal Court is balancing the right of victims to participate with the right of the accused to a fair trial
  

  Lorraine Smith and Marie-Pierre Olivier, Asser Institute, 19 March 2008

• Power Point Presentation on Provisional Release