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Press Releases

• ICDAA Amicus Curiae at Internatioal Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda – L'AIAD Amicus Curiae devant le Tribunal Pénal International pour le Rwanda – La AIADP Amicus Curiae ante el Tribunal Penal Internacional para Ruanda
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• PAKISTAN: Joint NGO Statement / Déclaration conjointe d'ONGs / Declaracion conjunta de ONGs
  Human rights groups denounce burning to death of up to 7 lawyers in Karachi and call for immediate action...
• 07/04/2008 – Remerciements pour les contributions spéciales de nos membres / Acknowledgement of Special Contributions from our Members
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• 07/04/2008 – Remerciements pour les contributions spéciales de nos membres / Acknowledgement of Special Contributions from our Members
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• LRWC Statement – Déclaration LRWC – Declaración LRWC
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• International Criminal Bar Cocludes Third General Assembly
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• Louise Fréchette – First Honorary Member / Premier membre honoraire / Primer miembro honorario
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• Barreau du Québec / Quebec Bar / Barra de Quebec
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• Appel à propositions d’articles / Call for Paper Proposals / Llamado a propuestas de artículos
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• Heenan Blaikie – Cabinet / Law Firm / Despacho
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• Formulaire Annuaire – Directory Form – Formulario Nómina
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• Justice for Accused Persons – Uganda : New Institutional Member
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• The honourable Mrs. Louise Fréchette at ICDAA's 10th Anniversary
  Thursday, October 18th, 2007 at 18h00...
• General Assembly and 10th Anniversary of the ICDAA
  The International Criminal Defence Attorneys Association is pleased to announce that its next General Assembly will take place on the 18th of October 2007 in Montreal....
• New Member's Information Broadcast Service and Publication of a Members Directory by the ICDAA
  In an effort to engage ourselves more closely with our members, the ICDAA wishes, with this new information broadcasting service and this publication, to facilitate communication and dissemination of information within our various networks and thus contri...
• Cambodia – Call for Defence Lawyers
  The United Nations Assistance to the Khmer Rouge Trials (UNAKRT) has recently opened their list for lawyers who wish to appear before the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC)....
• Montreal, 12 February 2007 - Special Tribunal for Lebanon: Major Breakthrough for the Institutionalization of the Defence.
  The recent assassination of former Minister and Deputy, Marwan Hamadeh in October 2004 has plagued Lebanon with a pattern of subsequent political assassinations...
• Montreal, 23 January 2007 - The International Criminal Defence Attorneys Association (ICDAA) issued the following statement today regarding recent public statements made by Charles (Cully) Stimson, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence for Detainee Affair
  The International Criminal Defence Attorneys Association (ICDAA) strongly condemns all statements by government officials that favour limiting the right of any person accused of a crime, or in detention for any reason, to receive the lawful assistance of...
• Montreal, 5 April 2006 - A Quebec counsel gets the Minister of Transport and Communications in office at the time of the genocide acquitted before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR).
  Benoit Henry, partner at Shadley Battista law firm and member of the International Criminal Defence Attorneys Association, succeeded in obtaining an acquittal before the ICTR for André Ntagerura...
• Montreal, 24 March 2006 - Resounding Victory for Québec Attorney and Former Conservative Candidate Stéphane Bourgon at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
  The International Criminal Defence Attorneys Association (ICDAA) issued the following statement today regarding recent public statements made by Charles (Cully) Stimson, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence for Detainee Affairs, United States Defence...

Media Coverage

• Adams, Katherine et André Giroux. 2007. Dossier spécial sur le droit pénal international. Le Journal du Barreau (février) : 25-31.
  • «La justice pénale internationale aux quatre coins du globe»
  • «Les suspects de crimes de guerre ont des droits… les victimes aussi»
  • «Trois ans plus tard»
  • «Sur la scène internationale. Faire sa place… et s’adapter»
  • «Droit continental et Common Law. Le choc des cultures juridiques»
• Balassoupramaniane, Indra. 2007. «Un procès simulé à Paris», Le Journal du Barreau 39 (janvier) : 5.
• Lavertu, Yves. 2006. «Les préjugés persistent», Le Journal du Barreau 38 (octobre) : 5.
• Lavertu, Yves. 2006. «Le Canada à l’avant-garde», Le Journal du Barreau 46 (août) : 45-46.
  Responsabilité sociale et pénale des entreprises. Table ronde organisée par l’AIAD dans le cadre de la Conférence de Montréal du Forum économique international des Amériques.
• Jacobs, Mindelle. «Nerves of steel», The Edmonton Sun (Edmonton), 27 août 2006, C16.
• Vincent Larouche. 2006. « Un avocet québécois en Afghanistan – Le droit au pays du pipeline et des mines antipersonnell Â» Le Journal du Barreau 38 (mai) : 25