FREE LAW JOURNAL Volume 1, Number 2 (October 18, 2005)
FREE LAW JOURNAL Volume 1, Number 2 (October 18, 2005)
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<strong>FREE</strong> <strong>LAW</strong> <strong>JOURNAL</strong> - VOLUME 1, NUMBER 2 (<strong>18</strong> OCTOBER <strong>2005</strong>)<br />
for concrete international criminal acts 15 .<br />
Similar ad hoc tribunales with similar jurisdiction, system international<br />
criminal offences and rules about criminal responsibility and<br />
punishments have established United Nations Security Council as : 1)<br />
International criminal tribunal for Rwanda which established of Security<br />
Council Resolution No.955/94 from November 8. 1994 16 , 2) Special<br />
court for Sierra Leone which established of Security Council<br />
Resolution No 1315/2000 from August 14, 2000 and 3) Iraqi special<br />
tribunal which established of the Statute of the Iraqi special tribunal<br />
from December 10. 2003 17 .<br />
The establishment of the Hague tribunal attracted large attention of the<br />
whole world, especially of expert circles in Serbia and Montenegro and<br />
abroad. The first remark is deal with statutory questions. Legal<br />
representatives and the accused raised most often the question of the<br />
legality of the establishment, existence and functioning of ad hoc<br />
tribunals <strong>18</strong> .<br />
The second remark is deal with the defense of the accused. Some legal<br />
representatives of the Defense have pointed out that they do not have<br />
the same effective abilities as the Prosecution, especially in the very<br />
important phase of evidence collection and finding witnesses 19 . Defense<br />
are significantly of the protected witness because the identity of the<br />
witness is not revealed till the trial and it is not possible to contact that<br />
group of persons till the very moment of having the main hearings 20 .<br />
Third remark is deal with the tribulal procedure and the trial in absentia.<br />
15<br />
Vasilijević V., Međunarodni krivični sud,Beograd, 1961.p. 64-68<br />
16<br />
Blakesley Ch., Definition and Triggering Mechanism, The International<br />
criminal court, AIDP,1997.<br />
17<br />
www. cpa-iraq.org/human _rights/statute.htm<br />
<strong>18</strong><br />
Josipović I., Haško implementacijsko kazneno pravo, Zagreb, 2000.p. 124-141<br />
19<br />
Đurđić V., Jovašević D., Međunarodno krivično pravo, Beograd, 2003. p. 33-<br />
34<br />
20<br />
More about remarks against Hague Tribunal in theory criminal law in Serbia<br />
and Montenegro : Stojanović Z., Međunarodno krivično pravo, Beograd, 2002.<br />
27<br />
DRAGAN JOVAŠEVIĆ - APPEARANCE, DEVELOPMENT AND BASIC<br />
CHARACTERISTICS OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE
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