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PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW
Public International Law is one of the fast growing legal fields. It has been at the cutting edge of legal development in recent years and continues to develop into many interconnected fields. The introduction of the Human Rights Act in the United Kingdom and the increasing reliance on international law in the domestic courts means that expertise in this field is now more important than ever before.
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Public International Law is the body of rules and principles that governs States in their interactions with other States, Organisations and Individuals. It comprises numerous legal fields including international criminal law, human rights, foreign policy and diplomatic relations and the conduct of trade rules and armed conflict. These rules and principles are contained in international treaties, customary international law and generally accepted legal principles.
Members of Guernica 37 have significant experience in a number of important areas of public international law, including taking cases to the European Court of Human Rights, UN Human Rights Committee and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights; judicial review proceedings; acting for victims of international crimes in seeking reparations; advising on the recognition of judgments in foreign jurisdictions; advising on fair trials abroad and challenging transfer of prisoner agreements.
NOTABLE CASES
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This relates to this area of expertise Two submissions have been filed on behalf of The Guernica Group with the ICC Prosecutor. The first submission argued that just as the Pre-Trial Chamber ruled that the ICC had jurisdiction over the crime of ‘Forced Deportation’ by virtue of Bangladesh’s position as a State Party to the Rome Statute, the same established legal principle could and should be applied to the Situation in the Syrian Arab Republic, given that more than a million civilians had been forcibly deported out of Syria and into neighbouring Jordan. The second submission sought to develop the legal argument as to why the exodus of civilians out of Syria into Jordan constitutes the Crime of Forced Deportation as a Crime Against Humanity for the purposes of the Rome Statute.
A statement from The Guernica Group following the submission is available here, a summary of the filing is available here and a Report by the Syria Justice and Accountability Center.
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This relates to this area of expertise Guernica 37 has worked with a group of legal professionals and civil society actors to analyse and potentially advise Venezuelan former prosecutors from the Criminal and Anti-Corruption Investigation Unit who have extracted and collated evidence relating to the political persecutions, and other human rights violations committed by the armed and security forces in the country.
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