Canada and the Development of International Criminal Law

The crimes and listed suspects.26 The public portion SCC also accepted the defences of superior orders of the report recommended that the government and mistake of fact as submitted to the jury, pursue criminal prosecutions in these cases, and implicitly accepting the use of hate propaganda to examine the possibility of doing the same in in the creation and implementation of those 220 other cases. [...] However, the Nederlandsche Landwacht (Dutch Land Guard), most far-reaching contribution to the field of which had collaborated with the Gestapo and international criminal law of Canada during the had detained and tortured individuals.44 In 1948, 1990s was the result of Canada’s involvement in a Dutch court had convicted Luitjens in absentia the drafting and adoption of the Rome Statute. [...] International Criminal Law For example, as mentioned above, Kirsch served as the first president of the ICC, and the deputy at the Domestic Level prosecutor of the ICC is currently James Stewart.84 Deschênes was appointed among the first judges After Canada’s contributions to the drafting of the of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Rome Statute and the creation of the ICC, Canada’s secon