The Miloaevi Trial: Lessons for the Conduct of Complex International Criminal Proceedings [Paperback]

This book examines what lessons can be learnt from the Milo+evic trial.Gideon Boas, the senior legal advisor working for the Trial Chamber, analyses the Miloaevi trial to determine what can be learnt that will improve the fair and expeditious conduct of complex international criminal proceedings brought against former heads of state and senior political and military officials.Gideon Boas, the senior legal advisor working for the Trial Chamber, analyses the Miloaevi trial to determine what can be learnt that will improve the fair and expeditious conduct of complex international criminal proceedings brought against former heads of state and senior political and military officials.When Slobodan Miloaevi died in the United Nations Detention Unit in The Hague over four years after his trial had begun, many feared - and some hoped - that international criminal justice was experiencing some sort of death itself. Yet the Miloaevi case, the first trial of a former head of state by a truly international criminal tribunal and one of the most complex and lengthy war crimes trials in history, stands for much in the development and the future of international criminal justice, both politically and legally. This book, written by the senior legal advisor working for the Trial Chamber, analyses the trial to determine what lessons can be learnt that will improve the fair and expeditious conduct of complex international criminal proceedings brought against former heads of state and senior political and military officials, and develops reforms for the future achievement of best practice in international criminal law.Introduction; Part I. Fair and Expeditious International Criminal Trials: 1. Introduction; 2. Fair trial rights; 3. Expeditious trials; 4. Application and interpretation of human rights by the ICTY; Part II. The Prosecution Case in Miloaevi - Getting Off on the Wrong Foot: 5. Content and scope of the Miloaevi indictments; 6. Pleading practice and problems with the Mill3�