Today: Victim Representation in International Tribunals 5.15pm

24/06/2021

Webinar - Thursday 24 June 2021

The New South Wales Bar Association’s Human Rights Committee is pleased to present a webinar on Victim Representation in International Tribunals on Thursday 24 June, at 5.15 pm, chaired by Justice Loukas-Karlsson with three barristers speaking from Geneva, London and Sydney.

The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (“ICC”), of which Australia is a party, provides victims of serious international crimes with broad rights to participation in proceedings before, during and after a trial. These rights include the right to communicate with the Court before an investigation is initiated by the Office of the Prosecutor, to make submissions on the parameters of the investigation and standing to participate through a legal representative during trials. As a result, victim participation has become an increasingly accepted component of tribunals for serious international crimes and human rights violations and has the ability to influence the outcome of proceedings.

Chair - Justice Chrissa Loukas-Karlsson of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory, and counsel before the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague between 2003 to 2006.

Learn more about the chair here.

Speakers

• Megan Hirst, barrister of, Doughty Street Chambers, London – International Lead Co-Lawyer for victims participating as civil parties in Case 002/02 at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia and representative of victims in pre-trial ICC proceedings concerning crimes against the Rohingya in Myanmar and the opening of an ICC investigation on Afghanistan.

• Eva Buzo, barrister of Black Chambers, Sydney - the Executive Director of Victim Advocates International, member of the NSW Bar Association Human Rights Committee and legal expert on the Red Cross International Humanitarian Law Advisory Committee.

• Kate Gibson, Geneva-based barrister of St Philips Chambers, London – Senior Counsel to Victim Advocates International, legal consultant to the UN Fact Finding Mission for Myanmar and now currently representing a group of Rohingya victims in Cox’s Bazar.

Learn more about the speakers here.

This seminar has been organised by the New South Wales Bar Association’s Human Rights Committee.

DETAILS

CPD Points 1

Date & Time Thursday, June 24, 2021 at 5:15pm - 6:15pm

CPD Strand Substantive Law, Practice and Procedure, and Evidence

Committee Human Rights Committee

Location Online via Zoom

Numbers are limited. For further information, or to register for this event, please click here.

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