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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