“We are watchdogs of police conduct and cognition”. Professor Eric Shepherd explains how witness accounts and statements can be subject to selective editing by those conducting criminal investigations in our June 2021 webinar: 9bri.com/big-picture-se…

The general requirement for aiding and abetting in international criminal law is that there needs to be an awareness that crimes are committed, and a conscious choice to contribute. Hear from Marina Aksenova on complicity here: 9bri.com/big-picture-se…

Dossier evidence is creating and reinforcing narratives in international criminal law, says Michael A Newton, in our April 2021 9 Bedford Row International webinar. He thinks that judges must look past that. See more here: 9bri.com/big-picture-se…

The alleged misuse of Israeli tracking software Pegasus by autocratic regimes has prompted calls for action amidst allegations of corporate complicity in human rights abuses. Read my op-ed about the limits of complicity in international criminal law here: intpolicydigest.org/the-principle-…

In June, executives from Nexa, the French tech company, were indicted for allegedly aiding and abetting torture in Libya and Egypt. Is this yet another example of activist-inspired litigation to disrupt commerce? intpolicydigest.org/the-principle-…

.@9bedfordrow’s Kirsty.sutherland has published an article with FedericaD'Alessandra from Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law & Armed Conflict about the role of mobile technology in documenting international crimes. You can find it here: academic.oup.com/jicj/issue/19/1 #ICL #JICJ

Earlier this month my colleagues dréa becker 🍉, Josh Kern and I released an Interim Report on the armed conflict between #Armenia and #Azerbaijan. You can find the report here: 9bedfordrow.co.uk/our-news-views…

Last month we were pleased to welcome Joey Kwong as a tenant at @9bedfordrow. Joey was called to the Bar in 2005 and has a busy criminal practice for both prosecution and defence across a broad spectrum of crime. You can read more about his work here: 9bedfordrow.co.uk/our-news-views…

Last month, Josh Kern and I provided international legal support to the team BCLP in a US complaint against Hatem El Beblawi, the former Prime Minister of Egypt. For more details on the case, please read here: 9bedfordrow.co.uk/our-news-views… #InternationalLaw #ICL

.@9bedfordrow’s Lennart Poulsen is featured in this month’s Counsel Magazine. He speaks about his journey to the Bar, the courage and persistence needed to develop new practice areas and his views on leadership and taking ownership of your time and career: bit.ly/3iD7VCz

This should be an interesting discussion. Is it time for a reset of the Africa-ICC relationship? Join ASIL Nuremberg Academy CILPA #icc roundtable on 19 October. bit.ly/3lu92Gv

A Specialist Fraud Division and HMRC 5-year investigation into a £34m alleged international money laundering operation collapsed this month at Snaresbrook Crown Court, after legal arguments led by @9bedfordrow’s Zacharias miah . Read more here: 9bedfordrow.co.uk/our-news-views… #Legal

Chambers & Partners Rankings 2022. It is with great pleasure that we can announce that 9 Bedford Row has had 8 QCs and 14 juniors listed in the Chambers and Partners 2022 rankings. Members of Chambers were ranked in four practice areas:

Many congratulations to @9bedfordrow’s Sean who has been appointed as a Fee-Paid Judge of the Employment Tribunal. Sean will sit for 30 days per year allowing him to continue to develop his successful criminal practice. 9bedfordrow.co.uk/our-team/barri…

An interesting read here from Lindsay Freeman & Raquel Vazquez Llorente in Opinio Juris about the growing use of digital use of technologies in armed conflicts and the opportunities and challenges they post to the Int'l Criminal Court: opiniojuris.org/2021/10/12/how…

Human rights law may be the leverage that democratic countries can use to reduce the abuse of #Interpol - by placing conditions on the organisation’s funding and introducing more parliamentary oversight of its work. lawgazette.co.uk/practice-point…

The deployment of opaque Red Notices through Interpol is not just favoured by the obvious nations. Smaller states, such as Venezuela, Romania, and Slovakia, also use #Interpol as a means of singling out opponents and capturing assets. The Law Society lawgazette.co.uk/practice-point…

Interpol has tightened its oversight using more stringent safeguards, open-source materials and distinguishing between terrorism, political dissent and criminality. But when states go after lesser-known targets, it might have reached the limits of what it can do. The Law Society

More than 11,000 Red Notices were issued in 2020 compared to about 1,200 in 2000. Out of the approximately 66,370 valid Red Notices, only 7,669 are public. Who are the high-volume users of the system? Read here: lawgazette.co.uk/practice-point…

Issuing Red Notices or diffusions to pursue political opponents has become a particularly favourite tool and a means to shakedown successful businesspeople who attempt to resist state empowered blackmailers. lawgazette.co.uk/practice-point…