Wayne Jordash

Overview

Wayne Jordash specialises in international and humanitarian law, criminal and human rights law and transitional justice issues. For sixteen years he has represented clients in the United Kingdom and in the international tribunals. He has represented individuals at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL). Clients have included a mayor from Rwanda (Baglishema), a government sponsored businessman (Bagaragaza) and the leader of the Sierra Leonean Revolutionary United Front (RUF) (Sesay). He also acted as a consultant at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) advising on a range of international law issues relevant to the defence of former Khmer Rouge members of the Pol Pot regime, including the deputy to Pol Pot (Nuon Chea) and the former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Khieu Samphan.

Currently Wayne is lead counsel at the ICTY defending Jovica Stanišić, the first intelligence chief to be tried by an international criminal tribunal. Stanišić is alleged to have been the second in command in the Milošević regime during the civil war in the former Yugoslavia, charged with crimes against humanity and war crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia. He is also acting as a consultant to the Appellant team in the case of Sagahutu convicted in 2011 at the ICTR for the crime of genocide.

In addition, he is regularly consulted by a range of governments, institutions, non-governmental organisations and individuals on a variety of international law issues. Recently he advised the Libyan Ministry of Justice (on issues relevant to domestic prosecutions) and the International Commission of Jurists (on the viability of prosecutions of international crimes committed in a particular domestic context). He is also a consultant to the Cambodian Centre for Human Rights (CCHR), advising on a range of international, criminal and human rights law issues for the NGO that works to promote democracy and human rights throughout Cambodia.

Publictions

He has published widely in international journals and text books, including The Right to be Informed of the Nature and Cause of the Charges: A Potentially Formidable Jurisprudential Legacy - Judicial Creativity at the International Criminal Tribunals (2010) - published by Oxford University Press; Failure to Carry the Burden of Proof: How Joint Criminal Enterprise Lost its Way at the Special Court for Sierra Leone - Journal of International Criminal Justice, (May 2010); Trials in Absentia at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon: Incompatibility with International Human Rights Law - Journal of International Criminal Justice, (2010); Due Process and Fair Trial Rights at the Special Court: How the Desire for Accountability Outweighed the Demands of Justice at the Special Court for Sierra Leone - Leiden Journal of International Law, 23 (2010) and The Practice of 'Witness Proofing' in International Criminal Tribunals: Why the International Criminal Court Should Prohibit the Practice - Leiden Journal of International Law (2009).

Forthcoming publications in 2012 include: (i) a contribution to Taylor on Appeals - a practitioners' textbook dealing with procedural aspects of criminal appeals and review in the English jurisdiction as well as the European Court of Human Rights, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the human rights bodies under the auspices of the United Nations, and Inter-American Commission and Court; author of Joint Defences at the International Tribunals - Contributor to Defence before International Courts (International Bar Association); and Joint Criminal Enterprise and Result-Orientated Justice (The Ashgate Research Companion to International Criminal Law: Critical Perspectives). His forthcoming lecture commitments include a presentation on Fair Trial rights at the SCSL at Pittsburgh University (US); on prosecutorial responsibilities in international criminal law at Cambridge University (UK) and also evidentiary challenges for the defense as part of a conference on Pluralism v. Harmonization: National Adjudication of International Crimes held at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Year of Call

1995

Education

BSc (Hons) Psychology

Email Address

w.jordash@doughtystreet.co.uk

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Specialist Teams

Member :

• Criminal Law
• Human Rights
• International Criminal Law
• International Law Group