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.

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.

Anand A. Shah est un avocat américain et actuellement avocat associé au sein de l’équipe du représentant légal commun des victimes dans le procès d’Abd-Al-Rahman (« Ali Kushayb ») devant la CPI. Avant cela, il a aidé à la représentation des accusés dans les situations du Darfour, du Kenya et de la Libye devant la CPI, dans des affaires portées devant le TSL, et a agi en tant qu’avocat devant le Conseil de discipline de la CPI. Il est l’actuel vice-président de l’ICCBA pour les victimes et a déjà siégé au Conseil exécutif, ainsi qu’aux comités suivants : Victimes, Normes professionnelles, Amicus, Conseil juridique et Personnel de soutien aux avocats. Il a également joué un rôle de premier plan au sein des groupes de travail de l’ICCBA traitant des questions d’aide juridique, de fiscalité et de harcèlement au travail.

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).

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.

Haydee Dijkstal is a UK barrister and US attorney with over 15 years of experience practicing international criminal and human rights law before international tribunals including the ICC. Haydee’s practice includes work before the ICC, ICTY, SCSL, ECtHR, African Commission and Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights and various UN bodies.  Haydee has been a member of legal teams before the International Criminal Court since 2011 representing parties including the defence, victims and Governments. Haydee has extensive experience with victim representation before the ICC.  She is currently representing victims at the ICC in the Situation in Afghanistan and Situation in Ukraine, and previously acted on legal teams for victims in a number of other situations and to raise victims’ interests in Article 15 submissions. Other instructions before the ICC include acting on the defence team for Abdullah Al-Senussi in the Libya Situation; and on the legal team for the Kenyan Government. In addition, she has been instructed as counsel for amicus curiae submissions before the Court.

Kate Gibson has been representing accused before the international criminal courts and tribunals since 2005. At the ICC, Kate was the Co-Counsel of former Vice-President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Jean-Pierre Bemba and the Co-Counsel of Bosco Ntaganda.  At the SCSL, she was Co-Counsel of former Liberian President Charles Taylor. At the ICTY, Kate was the Associate Legal Officer of Judge Mohamed Shahabadeen, and then Co-Counsel of former President of the Republika Sprska Radovan Karadžić before the IRMCT. At the ICTR, Kate was Lead Counsel of former Minister Justin Mugenzi and Co-Counsel of Jean-Baptiste Gatete, and is currently Lead Counsel of Prosper Mugiraneza before the IRMCT. Currently, Kate is Associate Counsel to Joseph Kony before the ICC, and Legal Consultant to Maxime Mokom before the ICC. She is also part of the legal team of former Kosovo President Hashim Thaçi before the Kosovo Specialist Chamber. Kate also represents a group of Rohingya victims in the Myanmar/Bangladesh situation, and was part of a legal team representing victims in the first case before the ECCC.  Kate also works in hostage diplomacy, and was Lead Counsel of Paul Rusesabagina detained in Rwanda, and currently represents US citizen Ryan Corbett, detained by the Taliban. Kate is the former President (2023) of the Association of Defence Counsel Practising before the International Courts and Tribunals (ADC-ICT), a former member of the ICCBA Executive Council (2022), and regularly lectures, teaches and trains in international law and procedure. Kate is an Associate Tenant of Doughty Street Chambers, holds an LLM in International Law from Cambridge University.

Megan Hirst is an Australian lawyer, practicing from the London bar. She has been working at and before the ICC since 2009, with a particular focus on victim participation. At the ICC she has undertaken victim representation in the Ongwen Case, the Bangladesh/Myanmar Situation and the Afghanistan Situation. From 2019 until 2022 she was International Lead Co-Lawyer for victims participating as civil parties in Case 002/02 at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia. Megan was previously a legal officer in the Registries of the ICC and the STL, primarily working on victim participation. Megan has previously served three terms on the Executive Council (2019-2021, 2023-2024) and in 2019-2021 was also Vice President for Victims and a member of the Victims’ Committee.