Our dedicated team of international criminal law barristers advises, prosecutes and defends cases before international courts and tribunals worldwide.
We offer specialist representation for all parties – defence, prosecution, witnesses and victims – in some of the most serious and high-profile international cases.
Current work includes representation in Prosecutor v Thaçi & others before the Kosovo Specialist Chamber in The Hague. The accused – including the former President of Kosovo – are represented by a member of the team – face allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity, alongside parallel contempt proceedings.
Past instructions include:
Acting at the Hague’s Special Tribunal for Lebanon in Prosecutor v Ayyash & others, concerning the assassination of the former Prime Minister of Lebanon. Our barristers led large teams of international lawyers, academics, investigators and experts for both prosecution and defence.
- At the International Criminal Court, members of the team led and were involved in drafting an Amicus Curiae Brief in the Rohingya case, in relation to the jurisdictional arguments concerning the deportation of Rohingya from Myanmar to Bangladesh. Other Amicus Curiae work has involved conducting sensitive confidential investigations upon assignment from a judge of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals in the Hague.
- Counsel acted in the Special Court for Sierra Leone as prosecution appeals counsel in the case of the former President of Liberia, Charles Taylor, in relation to war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in the Sierra Leonean civil war.
- Counsel also acted as legal adviser to international judges in numerous cases of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha.
- Counsel have also been consulted on several matters in relation to the International Court of Justice, including undertaking work relating to the case of The Gambia v Myanmar on the application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.