From: Oxford Public International Law (http://opil.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 12 February 2025
- Subject(s):
- Right to fair trial — Appeals — Revision of judgments
Published under the direction of Hélène Ruiz Fabri, with the support of the Department of International Law and Dispute Resolution, under the auspices of the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law.
1 International human rights law recognizes that a person has the right to request the revision of their judgment if new facts are discovered. Most jurisdictions provide for a procedure for the reopening of a case after final conviction, inter alia in situations where new facts or evidence are discovered. Arguably, convicted persons are entitled to revision as a general principle of law (Carcano, 2004, 108). 2 Revision of judgment is a procedure laid down in the statutes of most international courts and tribunals, even if they do not exercise criminal jurisdiction...
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