International Criminal Court Bar Association

Luc Walleyn is member of the Bar of Brussels (Belgium) since 1972 and counsel at the ICC since 2006. He is legal representative of victims in the Lubanga case and represented numerous victims of international crimes in Belgian courts. He teaches international criminal law as visiting professor at the University College Leuven-Limburg and at l’Université Libre de Bruxelles, and has published widely on international justice. Previously, he was lay judge in Brussels, member of the Council of the Bar, and President of Advocates Without Borders (ASF). He is a member of the ICCBA Executive Council and Victims Committee.

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Contact: focalpoint@iccba-abcpi.org 

Contact: focalpoint@iccba-abcpi.org 

Natalie von Wistinghausen, who was born in Belgium, was admitted to the Berlin Bar, Germany, in 2001.  Since being called to the Bar, she specialises in criminal defense as a trial advocate and has acquired wide-ranging legal experience in domestic and international legal criminal work. Natalie was admitted to the List of Counsel of the Defence Office of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) in 2009, and is currently assigned as Co-counsel to protect the interests and rights of one of the accused in the case of The Prosecutor v. Ayyash et al. At the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), she was Legal Assistant in one of the defense teams in the case The Prosecutor vs. Bizimungu et al.  Before the Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main, she was Lead Counsel in the first Rwandan genocide case before a German court. She represented the accused in pre-trial, trial and appellate proceedings. Natalie moved from Berlin to The Hague in spring 2016. Her office remains in Berlin (www.nvw-law.com).

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Contact: focalpoint@iccba-abcpi.org 

Victor Tsilonis is a barrister, member of the Thessaloniki Bar (Greece) and ICCBA’s Focal Point for Greece.  In January 2019 he was also elected for a four-year term as the alternate member of the ICC Disciplinary Board. As a co-founder of NEWLAW (www.newlaw.gr/en), Victor rendered NEWLAW, apart from the first Greek law firm offering online legal services, the first Greek law firm capable of handling international criminal law cases. He has written and presented papers in the field of international criminal law, human rights, criminal justice, data protection and prisoners’ rights.

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Contact: tsilonisvictor@hotmail.com 

Edinnah Bosibori Arati joined the International Criminal Court in December 2015.She has over twelve years of private practice with experience in criminal and family law commercial as well as public interest litigation. She has consulted for a joint project of Puntland Center for Human Rights and Democracy (PUNCHAD) and UNHCR project as the senior Legal Consultant providing technical and legal support on Refugee Law and Human Rights in Puntland, Somalia. Her most recent assignment is her appointment to Kenya’s Judiciary Technical Committee on Criminal Justice Reforms in Kenya.

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Contact: focalpoint@iccba-abcpi.org 

Charles A ADEOGUN-PHILLIPS is an accomplished international lawyer and former international prosecutor.  He is the founding partner of Charles Anthony LLP.    Between 1998 and 2010, he successfully led teams of international prosecutors in 12 precedent setting genocide trials before the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda which spanned over 12 years, making him arguably one of the most experienced and successful genocide prosecutors in history.   

His advisory practice in the area of international criminal and humanitarian law has included providing advice to the Nigerian Government in connection with the preliminary examinations launched by the ICC into alleged crimes against humanity or war crimes committed in the context of armed conflict between “Boko Haram” and the Nigerian security forces; and to the Military Defence Headquarters in Nigeria, following Amnesty International’s allegations of extra judicial killings of “Boko Haram” members by the Nigerian Armed Forces. He also advises various African governments on ICC related transitional justice issues. 

In 2013, Charles successfully represented Christopher Mtikila, the outspoken Tanzanian politician, in his precedent setting case against the Tanzanian Government, before the African Court on Human and People’s Rights, resulting in amendments to Tanzania’s electoral laws to allow for independent candidacy for election to public office.   In November 2016, Charles led the unprecedented corruption trial of a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, Sylvester Ngwuta JSC.   

Born in London England, on March 6, 1966, Charles was educated at Repton and read law at Warwick and London universities, following which, he was admitted as a Solicitor of the Superior Courts in England and Wales in 1996 and as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria in 1992.  In December 2019, he was the awarded the honourary degree of Doctor of Laws, LL. D by his alma mater, Warwick University, in recognition of his outstanding work as an international lawyer and advocate.  

He is cited in Creswell’s “Who’s Who in Public International Law” and in the International Yearbook and Statesmen’s Who’s Who. With other leading international criminal law practitioners and/or academics around the world, Charles contributed to the book; International Criminal Investigations: Law and Practice, published by Eleven International at The Hague in 2017.  He is the focal point for Nigeria at the International Criminal Court Bar Association where he previously sat on the Membership and Professional Standards committees. He is also a Council member of the Section of Legal Practice of the Nigerian Bar Association.

Contact: focalpoint@iccba-abcpi.org