A Blog on International Justice
by John RWD Jones* – iLawyer and Co-Counsel to Mustafa Amine Badreddine before the STL The Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) was created by the UN Security Council (UNSC) to try those responsible for killing former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri and 22 others in a bomb blast on 14 February 2005. The trial is [...]
by Mariya Nikolova A version with footnotes and references is available here. On 24 October 2012, the Appeals Chamber (AC) of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) delivered its decision on the Defence challenges to the jurisdiction and legality of the STL. The AC dismissed the appeals, confirming the Trial Chamber’s (TC) previous ruling that [...]
The Appeals Chamber of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon has unanimously dismissed Defence challenges to the Tribunal’s legality. Defence counsel for the four Accused had challenged, before the Trial Chamber, the legality of the Tribunal arguing that it violates Lebanese sovereignty, that the Tribunal has selective jurisdiction and no authority to try the Accused. On [...]
Tomorrow, the Appeals Chamber of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) will hear arguments of the Defence against the Trial Chamber decision on the jurisdiction and the legality of the Tribunal. The Trial Chamber of the U.N.-backed court, which is trying suspects in the 2005 attack that killed former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, dismissed [...]
by Miša Zgonec-Rozej The Trial Chamber of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) held in its decision of 27 July 2012 that the STL had been lawfully established and that it has jurisdiction to try those accused of committing the 14th February 2005 attack against the former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri and connected cases. [...]
The Trial Chamber of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) confirmed the Tribunal’s jurisdiction to try those accused of committing the 14 February 2005 attack against former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri and connected cases, in a decision published yesterday. The Trial Chamber dismissed all the motions of the defence counsel, who argued that the Tribunal [...]
This Wednesday, the Trial Chamber of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon has scheduled a hearing to hear arguments of the parties regarding the legality of the Tribunal and its establishment. As previously mentionned on this blog, Defence Counsel of the four accused have recently filed motions challenging the legality and jurisdcition of the Tribunal. In [...]
The Defence teams of the four accused indicted in the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri have filed this week preliminary motions challenging the jurisdiction of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon. Though each of the defense teams representing Salim Ayyash, Mustafa Badreddine, Hussein Oneissi and Assad Sabra filed separate motions, many of their [...]