On 1 October 2019, the ICCBA signed an Affiliation Agreement with the Kuwait Bar Association. A delegation from the Kuwait Bar, headed by the Vice President of the Bar, Mr. Muhannad Alsayer,  joined the President of the ICCBA, Mr. Peter Haynes QC and other members of the Executive Council to sign the agreement at the seat of the International Criminal Court in The Hague. 

The agreement prov...

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On 19 June 2019, ICCBA Executive Council (“EC”) members Mylène Dimitri, Jennifer Naouri, and Anand Shah met with the Chair of the Bar Council of England and Wales, Richard Atkins QC, and the Bar Council’s Head of International Policy, Mr. Christian Wisskirchen, at the ICC Permanent Premises in The Hague. This meeting took place in the context of a two-day working visit of the Bar Council Chair to the ICC...

The ICCBA conducted an advocacy training course between 15 and 17 May 2019 at the ICC. The three days covered opening and closing statements, direct examination and cross examination. The 18 participants had the opportunity to practice their skills in Courtroom 1 of the ICC and had lectures from several international defence and prosecution counsel. During lunch the participants were also given lectures...

The ICCBA Legal Advisory Committee has published an updated version of the Index of ICC Administrative Indexes which is available on the Documents page of the website, you can also download it here. 

The ICC internal policy and administrative framework is governed by a set of administrative issuances (Presidential Directives, Administrative Instructions, Information Circulars, others) enacted by the Organ...