Sentences with phrase «war crimes tribunal»

Fundamentally, Laughland doesn't understand the objections to the positivist legal philosophy that he, in his eagerness to accuse war crimes tribunals of retrospectivity, so casually adopts.

When your spouse is verbally attacking you, calling you every bad name in the book, and accusing you of the sorts of atrocities that are typically only seen in war crimes tribunals, it is hard not to take it personally.

Meanwhile, the House Foreign Affairs Committee voted last week to pass two resolutions: one calling for support of the creation of an international war crimes tribunal to prosecute those involved in Syria, and the other calling the crimes perpetrated by ISIS against Christians and other minorities there «war crimes,» «crimes against humanity,» and «genocide.»

Some of our marque clients are all the UN War Crimes Tribunals (Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Yugoslavia, Cambodia,...), the EOP of the White House, EC - Anti-Fraud department OLAF, FTC and many other high profile clients.

The three Canadians working at international criminal courts painted a vivid picture of how ad - hoc war crimes tribunals are pretty much a Wild West of rules and procedures making it an uphill battle to not only prosecute but defend cases being tried before panels of judges from different countries and legal systems.

«I would like to see Tony Blair in front of a war crimes tribunal for sending this country to war illegally and for the appalling human consequences which resulted,» he said.

The former Yugoslavia also used the defense during its war crimes tribunal, but the UN struck down the argument, saying that the international rules of warfare do not allow for the recognition of a category of «illegal combatants» - persons are either combatants or noncombatants.

He sounds as if he is facing a war crimes tribunal rather than making a resignation statement.

In 1948, former Japanese premier Hideki Tojo and several other World War II Japanese leaders were sentenced to death by a war crimes tribunal.

He is quickly talked into a new job as a prosecutor for the International Criminal Court in The Hague, a war crimes tribunal.

He was the first person since the Second World War to be prosecuted in a war crimes tribunal for acts committed as a juvenile.