Hossein Mir Mohammad Sadeghi; Rasoul Abed
Volume 1, Issue 1 , October 2012, , Pages 97-120
Abstract
At the international level, like national level, there are certaincriminal behaviours which may pervert the right course of justice.Many ad hoc international courts have, in the course of their activities,faced the problem of how to deal with these offences. They usuallytried to justify their jurisdiction ...
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At the international level, like national level, there are certaincriminal behaviours which may pervert the right course of justice.Many ad hoc international courts have, in the course of their activities,faced the problem of how to deal with these offences. They usuallytried to justify their jurisdiction in triying these offences on the basisof the inherent jurisdiction they have in trying the core crimes, anapproach which has been criticized by many lawyers.Based on such an experience, Articles 70 and 71 of the Statute ofIntenational Criminal Court have been allocated to offences againstthe administration of justice, which will be discussed in this article. Inthe first part, a brief history of the subject is given. The seconf part isallocated to the study of the process leading to the aadoption ofArticles 70 and 71 and to the segestions given by states in this respect.In the final sections, offences against the administarion of criminaljustice, their trying and the corporation of the member states with theI.C.C in this regard has been discussed
