Wheeler, Caleb H.  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3076-2351
2027.
International criminal procedures: pre-trial, trial and appeal processes.
Schabas, William A., Coleman, Michelle and Wheeler, Caleb H., eds.
The Routledge Handbook of International Criminal Law,
2nd edition.
Routledge,
pp. 300-316.
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Abstract
Every international criminal court and tribunal has its own sui generis rules of procedure and evidence. It is through the application of these procedures that courts and tribunals are able to perform their basic function of adjudicating the cases brought before it. This chapter looks at various aspects of these procedures as they are practiced at different international criminal courts and tribunals. It does this roughly in three parts. First, it discusses some of the relevant pre-trial procedures, including who is responsible for conducting investigations and how determinations are made about what charges will be brought against the accused. The second part focuses on the manner in which trials are conducted, with particular attention to the order of proceedings, the introduction of evidence, and the use of guilty pleas. The third part considers the post-trial appeals process and how decisions might be reviewed or revised outside of that context. It concludes that the divergent procedural approaches taken by international courts and tribunals is beneficial to international criminal law as a whole as it allows them to learn from the mistakes of their predecessors and to design rules best suited to their own situation.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Status: | In Press |
| Schools: | Schools > Cardiff Law & Politics Schools > Law |
| Subjects: | K Law > K Law (General) K Law > KZ Law of Nations |
| Publisher: | Routledge |
| ISBN: | 9781041086505 |
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| Last Modified: | 02 Nov 2026 14:15 |
| URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/190539 |
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