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Volume I, s.2 Structure of the ICC, 7 Duties of Officials

John RWD Jones

From: The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court

Edited By: Professor Antonio Cassese, Professor Paola Gaeta, Mr John R.W.D. Jones

From: Oxford Public International Law (http://opil.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 23 September 2023

Subject(s):
Prosecutors — International criminal law, evidence — Judges — International courts and tribunals, procedure
Article 45 provides, simply, that ‘[b]efore taking up their respective duties under this Statute, the judges, the Prosecutor, the Deputy Prosecutors, the Registrar and the Deputy Registrar shall each make a solemn undertaking in open court to exercise his or her respective functions impartially and conscientiously’. Similar provisions are to be found in the majority of the international courts and tribunals under consideration.1 The solemn undertaking may be seen as providing the contractual underpinning for the power to discipline officials and to remove them...
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