Major cases

International criminal law documents

Major cases

European Court of Human Rights

Al-Adsani v United Kingdom, Application No. 35763/97, 21 November 2001

International Criminal Court

Al Bashir (Decision on Arrest Warrant), ICC Pre-Trial Chamber, 4 March 2009 https://www.icc-cpi.int/Pages/record.aspx?docNo=ICC-02/05-01/09-1

Al Bashir (Decision on the Cooperation of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Regarding Omar Al Bashir’s Arrest and Surrender to the Court), ICC Pre-Trial Chamber, 9 April 2014

https://www.icc-cpi.int/Pages/record.aspx?docNo=ICC-02/05-01/09-195

Al-Senussi (Decision on Admissibility), ICC Pre-Trial Chamber I, 11 October 2013 https://www.icc-cpi.int/Pages/record.aspx?docNo=ICC-01/11-01/11-466-Red

Bemba Gombo (Decision on Confirmation of Charges), ICC Pre-Trial Chamber II, 15 June 2009 https://www.icc-cpi.int/Pages/record.aspx?docNo=ICC-01/05-01/08-424

Decision on the request of the Union of the Comoros to review the Prosecutor’s decision not to initiate an investigation, ICC Pre-Trial Chamber, 16 July 2015 (Mavi Marmara case)

https://www.icc-cpi.int/Pages/record.aspx?docNo=ICC-01/13-34

Gaddafi (Decision on Admissibility), ICC Pre-Trial Chamber I, 31 May 2013

https://www.icc-cpi.int/Pages/record.aspx?docNo=ICC-01/11-01/11-344-Red

Katanga, ICC Trial Chamber, 7 March 2014

https://www.icc-cpi.int/Pages/record.aspx?docNo=ICC-01/04-01/07-3436

Katanga (Sentence), 23 May 2014

https://www.icc-cpi.int/Pages/record.aspx?docNo=ICC-01/04-01/07-3484

Katanga and Chui (Judgment on the Appeal against Admissibility), ICC Appeals Chamber, 25 September 2009

https://www.icc-cpi.int/pages/record.aspx?uri=746819

Katanga and Ngudjolo Chui (Confirmation of Charges), ICC Pre-Trial Chamber, 30 September 2008 https://www.icc-cpi.int/Pages/record.aspx?docNo=ICC-01/04-01/07-717

Lubanga (Confirmation of Charges), ICC Pre-Trial Chamber, 29 January 2007

https://www.icc-cpi.int/Pages/record.aspx?docNo=ICC-01/04-01/06-803

Lubanga (Decision concerning Pre-Trial Chamber I’s Decision of 10 February 2006 and the Incorporation of Documents into the Record of the Case against Mr Thomas Lubanga Dyilo), Pre-Trial Chamber I, 24 February 2006

https://www.icc-cpi.int/Pages/record.aspx?docNo=ICC-01/04-01/06-8-Corr

Lubanga (Decision on the Disclosure of the Identity of Intermediary 143), ICC Trial Chamber, 8 July 2010 and ICC Appeals Chamber, 8 October 2010

https://www.icc-cpi.int/pages/record.aspx?uri=947768

Lubanga, ICC Trial Chamber I, 14 March 2012

https://www.icc-cpi.int/Pages/record.aspx?docNo=ICC-01/04-01/06-2842

International Court of Justice

Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Bosnia and Herzegovina v Serbia and Montenegro), 2007 ICJ Reports 43 (Bosnian Genocide Case) http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/index.php?p1=3&p2=3&k=f4&case=91&code=bhy&p3=4

Arrest Warrant Case: Case Concerning the Arrest Warrant of 11 April 2000 (Democratic Republic of the Congo v Belgium), 2002 ICJ Reports 3,

http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/index.php?p1=3&p2=3&k=36&case=121&code=cobe&p3=4

Jurisdictional Immunities of the State (Germany v Italy: Greece intervening), 2012 ICJ Reports 99 http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/index.php?p1=3&p2=3&k=60&case=143&code=ai&p3=4

Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Advisory Opinion, 2004 ICJ Reports 136

http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/index.php?p1=3&p2=4&k=5a&case=131&code=mwp&p3=4

Military and Paramilitary Activities in and against Nicaragua (Nicaragua v United States of America), 1986 ICJ Reports 14

http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/index.php?p1=3&p2=3&k=66&case=70&code=nus&p3=4

Oil Platforms: Case Concerning Oil Platforms (Islamic Republic of Iran v United States of America), 2003 ICJ Reports 161

http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/index.php?p1=3&p2=3&k=0a&case=90&code=op&p3=4

Questions relating to the Obligation to Prosecute or Extradite (Belgium v Senegal) (Hissène Habré case), 2012 ICJ Reports 422

http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/index.php?p1=3&p2=3&k=5e&case=144&code=bs&p3=4

International criminal Tribunal for Rwanda

Akayesu, ICTR Trial Chamber, 2 September 1998

http://ictrcaselaw.org/docs/doc15154.pdf

Akayesu, ICTR Appeals Chamber, 1 June 2001

http://ictrcaselaw.org/docs/doc25360.pdf

Bagilishema, ICTR Appeals Chamber, 3 July 2002

http://ictrcaselaw.org/docs/doc32443.pdf

Gacumbitsi, ICTR Appeals Chamber, 7 July 2006

http://ictrcaselaw.org/docs/doc79825.PDF

Kayishema and Ruzindana, ICTR Appeals Chamber, 1 June 2001 http://ictrcaselaw.org/docs/doc25452.pdf

Musema, ICTR Trial Chamber, 27 January 2000

http://ictrcaselaw.org/docs/doc15264.pdf

Nahimana et al (The Media Case), ICTR Trial Chamber, 3 December 2003 http://ictrcaselaw.org/docs/doc40472.PDF

Nahimana et al (The Media Case), ICTR Appeals Chamber, 28 November 2007 http://ictrcaselaw.org/docs/20071128-jgt-9952-01-en.pdf

Rutaganda, ICTR Trial Chamber, 6 December 1999

http://ictrcaselaw.org/docs/doc15149.pdf

Semanza, ICTR Trial Chamber, 15 May 2003

http://ictrcaselaw.org/docs/doc37512.pdf

International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia

Blaškić, ICTY Trial Chamber, 3 March 2000

http://www.icty.org/x/cases/blaskic/tjug/en/bla-tj000303e.pdf

Blaškić, ICTY Appeals Chamber, 29 July 2004

http://www.icty.org/x/cases/blaskic/acjug/en/bla-aj040729e.pdf

Blaškić Subpoena Appeal (Judgment on the Request of the Republic of Croatia), ICTY Appeals Chamber, 29 October 1997

http://www.icty.org/x/cases/blaskic/acdec/en/71029JT3.html

Brđanin, ICTY Trial Chamber, 1 September 2004

http://www.icty.org/x/cases/brdanin/tjug/en/brd-tj040901e.pdf

Brđanin ICTY Appeals Chamber, 3 April 2007

http://www.icty.org/x/cases/brdanin/acjug/en/brd-aj070403-e.pdf

Delalić, Mucić et al (Čelebići), ICTY Trial Chamber, 16 November 1998 http://www.icty.org/x/cases/mucic/tjug/en/981116_judg_en.pdf

Delalić, Mucić et al (Čelebići), ICTY Appeals Chamber, 20 February 2001 http://www.icty.org/x/cases/mucic/acjug/en/cel-aj010220.pdf

Erdemović, ICTY Appeals Chamber, 7 October 1997 http://www.icty.org/x/cases/erdemovic/acjug/en/erd-aj971007e.pdf

Furundžija, ICTY Trial Chamber, 10 December 1998 http://www.icty.org/x/cases/erdemovic/acjug/en/erd-aj971007e.pdf

Furundžija, ICTY Appeals Chamber, 21 July 2000 http://www.icty.org/x/cases/furundzija/acjug/en/fur-aj000721e.pdf

Kordić and Čerkez, ICTY Trial Chamber, 26 February 2001 http://www.icty.org/x/cases/kordic_cerkez/tjug/en/kor-tj010226e.pdf

Kordić and Čerkez, ICTY Appeals Chamber, 17 December 2004 http://www.icty.org/x/cases/kordic_cerkez/acjug/en/cer-aj041217e.pdf

Krajišnik, ICTY Trial Chamber, 27 September 2006

http://www.icty.org/x/cases/krajisnik/tjug/en/kra-jud060927e.pdf

Krštić, ICTY Trial Chamber, 2 August 2001

http://www.icty.org/x/cases/krstic/tjug/en/krs-tj010802e.pdf

Kunarac, ICTY Trial Chamber, 22 February 2001

http://www.icty.org/x/cases/krstic/tjug/en/krs-tj010802e.pdf

Kunarac, ICTY Appeals Chamber, 12 June 2002

http://www.icty.org/x/cases/kunarac/acjug/en/kun-aj020612e.pdf

Kupreškić, ICTY Trial Chamber, 14 January 2000

http://www.icty.org/x/cases/kupreskic/tjug/en/kup-tj000114e.pdf

Kvočka, ICTY Appeals Chamber, 28 February 2005 http://www.icty.org/x/cases/kvocka/acjug/en/050228_Kvokaetal._summary_en.pdf

Milutinović, ICTY Trial Chamber Judgment, 26 February 2009

http://www.icty.org/case/milutinovic/4

Orić, ICTY Trial Chamber, 30 June 2006 http://www.icty.org/x/cases/oric/tjug/en/060630_Oric_summary_en.pdf

Perišić, ICTY Appeals Chamber, 28 February 2013 http://www.icty.org/x/cases/perisic/acjug/en/130228_judgement.pdf

Popovic et al., ICTY Trial Chamber, 10 June 2010 http://www.icty.org/x/cases/popovic/tjug/en/100610judgement.pdf

Stakić, ICTY Trial Chamber, 31 July 2003

http://www.icty.org/x/cases/stakic/tjug/en/stak-tj030731e.pdf

Stakić, ICTY Appeals Chamber, 22 March 2006

http://www.icty.org/x/cases/stakic/acjug/en/sta-aj060322e.pdf

Tadić (Appeal/Decision on Jurisdiction), ICTY Appeals Chamber, 2 October 1995 http://www.icty.org/x/cases/tadic/acdec/en/51002.htm

Tadić, ICTY Trial Chamber, 7 May 1997

http://www.icty.org/x/cases/tadic/tjug/en/tad-tsj70507JT2-e.pdf

Tadić, Judgment on Appeal, ICTY Appeals Chamber, 15 July 1999 http://www.icty.org/x/cases/tadic/acjug/en/tad-aj990715e.pdf

Vasiljević, ICTY Trial Chamber, 29 November 2002 http://www.icty.org/x/cases/vasiljevic/tjug/en/vas021129.pdf

Nuremberg international military tribunal

Trial of the Major War Criminals, Judgment of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal (1947) http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/judcont.asp

Special Court for Sierra Leone

Charles Taylor (Decision on Immunity), SCSL Appeals Chamber, 31 May 2004 http://www.haguejusticeportal.net/Docs/Court%20Documents/SCSL/Taylor_Decision%20on%20Immunity.pdf

Other cases

Bourterse Case, Amsterdam Court of Appeal (Netherlands), 20 November 2000 https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/applic/ihl/ihl-nat.nsf/caseLaw.xsp?documentId=274EBDFA57C67762C1257706003512D4&action=openDocument&xp_countrySelected=NL&xp_topicSelected=GVAL-992BU6&from=state

Eichmann Case: Attorney General of the Government of Israel v Eichmann (1968) 18 ILR 36, 277, District Court of Jerusalem and Supreme Court of Israel

Jones v Minister of the Interior, Saudi Arabia and Aziz [2006] UKHL 26 https://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200506/ldjudgmt/jd060614/jones.pdf

Pinochet Ugarte (No. 3), ex p [2000] 1 AC 147 http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKHL/1999/17.html

R v Finta [1994] 1 SCR 701

https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/applic/ihl/ihl-nat.nsf/0/4df6e9ddc0a2b914c12563b1003fe966

R v Jones [2006] UKHL 16 http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200506/ldjudgmt/jd060329/jones-1.htm

US v von Leeb et al (High Command Case), US Military Tribunal Sitting in Nuremberg, 27 October 1948, XII Law Reports of Trials of War Criminals 1

https://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_Law/pdf/Law-Reports_Vol-12.pdf