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[Previous entry: "The ICC gets a prosecutor (at last)"] [Main Index] [Next entry: "Some EU stuff"] 19 June 2003: "'And now, let me play a little jazz trumpet for y'all...'"The San Jose Mercury News has got a story off the AP wire, reporting that American lawyers are now banned from acting as defence counsel at the ICTY. An executive order is aimed a cutting off support to about 200 people and organizations in the former Yugoslavia blacklisted by the U.S. government. It outlaws providing goods, services and funds to those people.That includes legal services. (NB. this ban originated with the US government, not with the UN.) When I was still working at the Tribunal, we used to speculate which defendant might hire Johnny Cochrane, and how it long it would take before Cochrane got slapped with a contempt of court charge by one of the judges. No chance of that happening now, I suppose. |
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