This book traces the history of the Lockerbie incident from the
evening it occurred on 21 December 1988 through the trial and
subsequent appeal to the discontinuance of Libya's conflict against
the United States and the United Kingdom in the International Court
on September 10, 2003. It provides the core legal texts relevant to
the trial and appeal - and to the associated International Court
conflict. An introductory chapter analyzes the sequence of events
establishing that international terrorists are best dealt with in
national courts, and not in the international courts and tribunals.
States should be prepared to think outside the box when exercising
national jurisdiction, as the U.K. did in arranging a trial in
another country and with judges replacing a jury as the fact
finders.
Documents in this work include: the petition for arrest, the
indictment, the demands of the U.K. and U.S. for the surrender of
the two Libyan suspects for trial, the Libyan response to these
demands, the various Security Council resolutions endorsing these
demands, the trial and the appeal judgments and the order on
provisional measures and the judgment on preliminary objections of
the International Court of Justice.
The documents are collected into four parts:
. Part 1: The Investigation and the Identification of the
Accused - contains documents from the date of the tragedy to the
time of the Scottish warrants to arrest the two Libyans and the
U.S. indictment in November 1991
. Part 2: Getting the Accused to Trial - has documents from the end
of 1991 to (and slightly beyond) the surrender of the two Libyans
for trial in April 1999, generally concerning the moves within the
United Nations to have the two Libyan suspects surrendered for
trial. This part also contains reports of two Scottish cases
involving allegations of contempt of court and attempts by the BBC
to televise the trial
. Part 3: The Trial and the Appeal - contains the trial verdict and
the reasons for it, the grounds of appeal and the appeal judgment,
plus critiques of the verdict and the appeal decision. It covers
the period from late 1999 to September 2003 when Libya was
acknowledged as having met the demands originally made in
1991-92
. Part 4: Meanwhile at the International Court - contains documents
(from March 1992 to September 2003) relating to the conflict raised
by Libya against the U.S. and U.K. relating to the Lockerbie
incident."
General
Imprint: |
Oceana Publications
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Terrorism: Documents of International and Local Control, Second Series |
Release date: |
February 2004 |
Authors: |
John Grant
|
Dimensions: |
261 x 183 x 38mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
|
Pages: |
608 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-379-21512-0 |
Categories: |
Books >
Law >
Laws of other jurisdictions & general law >
Criminal law
|
LSN: |
0-379-21512-8 |
Barcode: |
9780379215120 |
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