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The principle of legality and the prosecution of international crimes in domestic courts : lessons from Uganda
Thesis (LLM (Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa)) -- University of Pretoria, 2011.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/18629 The principle of legality and the prosecution of international crimes in domestic courts : lessons from Uganda Koen, Raymond Namwase, Sylvie UCTD Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) ECOWAS court of justice Human rights monitoring -- Uganda Criminal law -- Uganda International crimes -- Uganda Hybrid international criminal courts -- Uganda Thesis (LLM (Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa)) -- University of Pretoria, 2011. On 18 November 2010, the Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) held that legal reforms adopted by Senegal in 2007 to incorporate international crimes into the national Penal Code to enable its domestic courts to prosecute Hissene Habre for, among others, crimes against humanity committed in Chad twenty years before, violated the principle of legality, specifically the principle against non-retroactivity of criminal law. The court held that such crimes could be prosecuted only by a hybrid tribunal with the jurisdiction to try Habre for the international crimes based on general principles of law common to the community of nations. Some scholars opined that the ECOWAS decision was wrong, stating that the crimes in question were criminalised already under international law and that Senegal‟s legal reforms simply served jurisdictional purposes. Given that, as a core component of the principle of legality, the role of non-retroactivity is to prohibit the creation of new crimes and their application to past conduct, the opinions of such scholars may hold true. http://www.chr.up.ac.za/ nf2012 Centre for Human Rights LLM 2012-04-25T07:57:10Z 2012-04-25T07:57:10Z 2011/10/30 Mini Dissertation Namwase, S 2011/10/30, The principle of legality and the prosecution of international crimes in domestic courts : lessons from Uganda, LLM Mini Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/18629> http://hdl.handle.net/2263/18629 en University of Pretoria application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) ECOWAS court of justice Human rights monitoring -- Uganda Criminal law -- Uganda International crimes -- Uganda Hybrid international criminal courts -- Uganda The principle of legality and the prosecution of international crimes in domestic courts : lessons from Uganda |
| title | The principle of legality and the prosecution of international crimes in domestic courts : lessons from Uganda |
| title_full | The principle of legality and the prosecution of international crimes in domestic courts : lessons from Uganda |
| title_fullStr | The principle of legality and the prosecution of international crimes in domestic courts : lessons from Uganda |
| title_full_unstemmed | The principle of legality and the prosecution of international crimes in domestic courts : lessons from Uganda |
| title_short | The principle of legality and the prosecution of international crimes in domestic courts : lessons from Uganda |
| title_sort | principle of legality and the prosecution of international crimes in domestic courts lessons from uganda |
| topic | UCTD Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) ECOWAS court of justice Human rights monitoring -- Uganda Criminal law -- Uganda International crimes -- Uganda Hybrid international criminal courts -- Uganda |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/18629 |