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Part A Major Problems of International Criminal Justice, IV International Criminal Trials, Cooperation of States with International Criminal Tribunals

Göran Sluiter

From: The Oxford Companion to International Criminal Justice

Edited By: Antonio Cassese (Editor-in-Chief)

Content type:
Book content
Product:
Oxford Scholarly Authorities on International Law [OSAIL]
Published in print:
22 January 2009
ISBN:
9780199238323

From: Oxford Public International Law (http://opil.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 02 June 2023

State cooperation is of vital importance to the effective functioning of international criminal tribunals.1 Compared to national courts, the ICTY, ICTR and ICC suffer from two major handicaps that can only be compensated—but not fully—by state cooperation. First, they do not have at their disposal law-enforcement officials who could perform various acts of criminal procedure for the benefit of the tribunals. Secondly, even if they did, they would not be empowered to perform (certain) acts within the jurisdiction of a sovereign state. In this contribution the...
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