LEADER 05302nam 2200661 450 001 9910463504203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-926824-79-2 010 $a1-77186-028-6 035 $a(CKB)2670000000571076 035 $a(EBL)1813911 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001411085 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11967493 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001411085 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11379114 035 $a(PQKB)11770417 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1813911 035 $a(PPN)187314764 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1813911 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10953485 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL651137 035 $a(OCoLC)893333015 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000571076 100 $a20141025h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aJustice Belied $ethe unbalanced scales of international criminal justice /$fedited by Se?bastien Chartrand and John Philpot 210 1$aMontre?al, Que?bec :$cBaraka Books,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (284 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-322-19857-8 311 $a1-77186-027-8 327 $aCover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Acronyms; Introduction; PART I; International Criminal Justice in the Eyes of Africans and African Americans; 1 African Court and International Criminal Courts: Discriminatory International Justice and the Quest for a New World Judicial Order; Introduction; Selective and Discriminatory Justice in Context; The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda: A Victors' Court; Backdoor Attempts to Eternalise Victors' Justice; The Special Court for Sierra Leone; The ICC: The Price of Selective and Discriminatory Justice 327 $aThe African Court, the ICC, Universal Jurisdiction, and the Challenges AheadConclusion; Notes; 2 The Ailing Empire's Full Spectrum Dominance; Note; 3 Victoire Ingabire: Chronology of a Pinochet-style Case of Repression; Notes; 4 The Fabrication of Evidence before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda; The Rwandan Law on Guilty Plea, Confession, and Forgiveness; Witness Protection; Witness Proofing; Notes; 5 Charles Taylor: The Special Courtfor Sierra Leone and Questionable Verdicts; Introduction; Alleged Credible Examples for Future Trials 327 $aQuestionable Legal Justification of Evidential FindingsFindings in Other Trials; Test of Judicial Scrutiny; Conclusion; Notes; 6 The Seven Challenges for Truthand Justice in Rwanda; Five Burdens; Seven Challenges; 7 The ICC and Kenya: Going Beyond the Rhetoric; Introduction; Beyond the Rhetoric; Stepping on Sensitive Political, Ethnic, and Cultural Nerves; The Political Card; Conclusion; Notes; PART II; The ad hoc InternationalCriminal Tribunals; 8 The Heart of Dark Jurisprudence; Highly Questionable Results; A Cloud of Secrecy; The Case for an Independent Review: The East Timor Precedent 327 $aNational Jurisdictions: To Disclose or Not to DiscloseAcquittals: A Double Standard Prevails; Conclusion; Notes; 9 Prosecutorial Failure to Disclose Exculpatory Material: A Death Knell to Fairness; Introduction; Rule 68: Does it "Level the Playing Field" Between Prosecution and Defence?; The "Military II" Case: Disclosure "As soon as practicable"??; Notes; 10 Lessons Learned from the Bad Beginnings of The International Tribunal for Rwanda; Disorganisation and Causes of Conflict; Power Struggles; Racial and Ethnic Internal Conflicts; Absence of Working Tools 327 $aComplaints, Denunciations, and Requests for Investigation by Families of VictimsProblems of Language and Communication; Communications; Recruitment; Government Pressure; Financial Administration and Corruption; Waste; Embezzlement, Theft, and Corruption; Complaint to the Secretary General and Request for Investigation; Results and Consequences of the Investigations; And the Good Staff?; Notes; 11 The Dubious Heritage of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda; Impunity; Firing a Wayward Prosecutor; Referral to National Courts and Rwandan impunity; Myths and Lies 327 $aThe War: An Internal or International Conflict? 330 $aWritten by practicing criminal defense lawyers, jurists, investigators, and specialized journalists, this book criticizes the whole initiative of international criminal justice and considers the idea that it must be abandoned in the name of justice. Has foreign policy trumped justice? How are equity, equality before the law, absence of selectivity, protection of witnesses, and enforcement affected? How are lives of citizens throughout the world changed by International Justice? Asking the burning questions about criminal justice as it is practiced at the International Criminal Court, the ad-ho 606 $aCriminal law$xResearch 606 $aCivil law$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCriminal law$xResearch. 615 0$aCivil law$xHistory. 676 $a340.5609 702 $aChartrand$b Se?bastien 702 $aPhilpot$b John 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463504203321 996 $aJustice Belied$92111815 997 $aUNINA