Association du Barreau près la Cour Pénale Internationale

Philippe Larochelle est le fondateur de Larochelle Avocats, www.larochelleavocats.com, une boutique de litige à Montréal, Canada.  M. Larochelle pratique le droit pénal international depuis 2001, ayant représenté des clients devant le TPIR, la CPI et le Tribunal Spécial pour le Liban.  Il a également assisté des victimes, incluant devant les Chambres extraordinaires au sein des tribunaux cambodgiens. Après avoir obtenu des acquittements d’accusations de génocide pour ses clients devant le TPIR et au Canada, et la libération de son plus récent client, Maxime Mokom, devant la CPI, la pratique de M. Larochelle inclut maintenant des sujets post-conviction trop souvent négligés : relocalisation, compensation, réouverture. Un de ses mandats pro bono devant le MICT est celui d’André Ntagerura, acquitté par le TPIR en février 2004 et toujours à la recherche d’un pays d’accueil en 2024, 20 ans plus tard. Pourquoi pro bono ? Parce que le MICT, comme la CPI, continue de priver les avocats de la défense de conditions de travail acceptables.

Anta Guissé has been a practising lawyer at the Paris Bar in France since 1999. Her working language is French, while she also speaks English. As a criminal defence lawyer, she has appeared regularly before national criminal courts and the Assize Court in particular. In addition, Ms Guissé has several years of experience appearing before the international jurisdictions. Between 2002 and 2010, she worked with several different defence teams before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, firstly as a legal assistant and then as counsel. In 2010, Ms Guissé had an assignment in a team of Legal Representatives of Victims before the International Criminal Court. She was also Defence Counsel at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon. Since 2012, Ms Guissé has been acting as an international lawyer for former Chairman KHIEU Samphân before the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) and is currently Counsel for Mr. Yekatom at the ICC. Ms Guissé also regularly presents at training workshops for colleagues on the subject of international criminal justice.

Since being called to the Berlin Bar, Natalie von Wistinghausen specialises in criminal law as a trial advocate and has acquired wide-ranging legal experience in domestic and international legal criminal work. She was admitted to the List of Counsel at the ICC, the KSC, the STL and the MICT. Before the ICTR, she was Legal Assistant in the defense team of former Cabinet Minister Justin Mugenzi and in Germany, she was Lead Counsel in a case against Rwandan bourgmestre Rwabukombe who was accused of charges relating to the genocide. Besides her domestic work as defense counsel, she was assigned as Co-Counsel to protect the interests and rights of one of the accused in the in absentia proceedings of at the STL. She also worked as a Senior Rule of Law expert in the UK government project „Strengthening the Judicial System in Kosovo“. Since 2019 Natalie is representing Yazidi victims in universal jurisdiction cases against alleged „ISIS“ members before Higher Regional Courts in Germany. She has also filed criminal complaints on behalf of NGOs who are representing victims of chemical attacks in Syria as well as victims of international crimes committed in Ukraine. In October 2021, she was appointed as Common Legal Representative of Victims in the case against Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman (situation in Darfur, Sudan) at the ICC.

Haneen is an international criminal law practitioner from Syria; she has experience in the defence in the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the Kosovo Specialist Chambers. She is currently part of the defence team of Mr. Ali Abd Al Rahman as a legal assistant. Prior to her current position, she was a member of the defence teams of Mr Mokom and Mr. Al Hassan. Haneen has experience working on SGBV (UN Team of Experts on the Rule of Law and Sexual Violence), reparations, and a wide range of procedural issues related to international criminal proceedings, namely disclosure and management of evidence. Haneen is a graduate of LLM Public International Law from Leiden University and the Sorbonne.

Audrey MATEO est actuellement conseillère juridique dans l'équipe de défense de M. Abd-Al-Rahman à la CPI. Elle a également été un membre actif du Comité exécutif de l'ICCBA (2023-2024). En 1997, elle a terminé ses études de droit à Aix en Provence et à Montpellier, en France. Elle a ensuite étudié au Cap, en Afrique du Sud, où elle a obtenu un LL.M. en droits de l'homme et en droit international à l'Université du Western Cape ( UWC). Au début de sa carrière, à la Commission européenne à Bruxelles, elle a travaillé dans la task-force sur l'avenir de l'Union européenne. Elle a ensuite travaillé comme juriste pendant 10 ans aux chambres du TPIY et à la CPI dans le cadre du procès du Katanga. Elle a vécu deux ans au Cambodge où elle a travaillé comme consultante juridique et bénévole pour des ONG de défense des droits de l'homme et a soutenu les avocats des victimes devant les CETC. Elle a également été consultante au KSC-SPO. Depuis 2021, Audrey travaille comme juge du HCR à la Cour nationale du droit d'asile à Paris, et elle donne également des formations en tant que consultante sur la prévention du harcèlement sexuel au travail. Elle est également un membre actif de l'Association des Magistrats Internationaux Francophones (AMIF).

Gregory Townsend débute sa carrière juridique à Los Angeles comme défenseur publique adjoint. En 1998, il rejoint le Tribunal pénal international pour le Rwanda comme assistant auprès d’un juge avant de se joindre au Bureau du Procureur, où il passe plus de sept ans dans les procès de Butare, Militaires I, et Seromba. Il devient ensuite procureur auprès de la mission de maintien de la paix au Kosovo et du Tribunal pénal international pour l’ex-Yougoslavie. Entre 2008 et 2010, il exerce à La Haye la fonction de Chef de Bureau du Tribunal spécial pour la Sierra Leone dans le procès de Charles Taylor. Il rejoint le Tribunal spécial pour le Liban en 2010 comme Conseiller juridique principal auprès du Procureur. De 2014 à 2018, il était Chef de la Section des services d’appui judiciaire pour le TPIY et MTPI, où il a supervisé les services de protection de témoins, l’administration des procédures menées devant le Tribunal, et les services d’appui judiciaire. Il est professeur de droit international et figure sur la liste de conseils habilités à représenter les victimes devant les Chambres extraordinaires au sein des tribunaux cambodgiens, les Chambres spécialisées du Kosovo, et la Cour pénale internationale.

Paul Bradfield is a graduate of University of Galway (BA, LLB), University College Cork (LLM in Criminal Justice) and the Honorable Society of Kings Inns (Barrister-at-Law), and was called to the bar in 2009. He completed his PhD at the Irish Centre for Human Rights at the University of Galway in 2021, with his thesis assessing the use of amnesty as a response to conflict in northern Uganda. Paul has worked at various international courts in both Defence and Prosecution roles, including the tribunals for the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and the International Criminal Court. He is an admitted member of the ICC's List of Counsel. In the field, he has worked for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Uganda, and for Irish Rule of Law International in Malawi, on a range of transitional justice, human rights and access to justice issues. Domestically, he was previously a Prosecutor in the Central Criminal Court for the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions.

Michael Herz is an international criminal lawyer with over fifteen years’ experience, including for over seven years at the OPCD of the ICC. In addition, he has worked on defence teams at the SCSL and ECCC, for the prosecution at the ICTR, and in the judicial chambers of the ICTY. He is also a door tenant at 33 Bedford Row chambers in London. Michael has been involved with the work of the ICCBA since 2017, including acting as its Secretary in 2022-23.

Marie-Hélène Proulx is a lawyer admitted to the Québec Bar since 2003, and a former President of the ICCBA. She is an Associate Tenant at 33 Bedford Row Chambers in London where she specialises in strategic human rights litigation. She represented several accused persons before international tribunals, including Patrice-Édouard Ngaïssona, Dominic Ongwen, Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz at the ICC, and Hassan Habib Merhi before the Special Tribunal for Lebanon. She was also appointed Ad Hoc Counsel at the Office of Public Counsel for the Defence and acted as Rule 74 Legal Adviser at the ICC. She acted as Counsel for Jean de Dieu Kamuhanda, and is currently a pro bono Counsel for Mr. Siméon Nchamihigo and Jean-Baptiste Gatété before the IRMCT. She also worked as a Legal Officer at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and at the ICC, Teaching Assistant at the University of Geneva and Legal Adviser at the ICRC Advisory Service on International Humanitarian Law at the Geneva Headquarters. She obtained a law degree from the Université de Montréal (Canada) as well as a LL.M from the University Centre for International Humanitarian Law (now Geneva Academy).