Right to a Fair Trial Under Article 14 of the Iccpr - Travaux Preparatoires

This volume brings together for the first time the complete travaux to Article 14 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In doing so, it contributes to a thorough and informed understanding of the right to a fair trial, the world's most litigated human right.

List of contents

• 1946-1947


• Draft Declaration on Human Rights, 12 February 1946


• Statement of Essential Human Rights Presented by the Delegation of Panama, 26 April 1946


• Drafting Committee (CHR) Meeting Summary, 11 June 1947


• Drafting Committee (CHR) Draft Outline of International Bill of Rights, 4 June 1947


• Drafting Committee (CHR) Letter from the United Kingdom, 5 June 1947


• Drafting Committee (CHR) United Kingdom Draft International Bill of Rights, 10 June 1947


• Drafting Committee (CHR) United States Suggestions for Redrafts, 11 June 1947


• Drafting Committee (CHR) Meeting Summary, 12 June 1947


• Working Group on Convention of Human Rights (CHR) Meeting Summary, 8 December 1947


• Drafting Committee (CHR) Report, 1 July 1947


• Drafting Committee (CHR) United States proposal , 26 November 1947


• Working Group on Convention of Human Rights (CHR) Meeting Summary, 10 December 1947


• Sub-Commission on the Prevention of Discrimination and the Protection of Minorities (CHR) Report, 6 December 1947


• CHR Meeting Summary, 13 December 1947


• Drafting Committee (CHR) United States proposal, 26 November 1947


• Working Party on an International Convention on Human Rights (CHR) Report, 11 December 1947


• Working Group on an International Convention on Human Rights (CHR) Report, 11 December 1947


• 1948


• Drafting Committee (CHR) Meeting Summary, 6 May 1948


• CHR Government Comments, 1 May 1948


• Drafting Committee (CHR) Meeting Summary, 12 May 1948


• Drafting Sub-Committee (CHR) Report, 12 May 1948


• Drafting Committee (CHR) Meeting Summary, 13 May 1948


• Drafting Committee (CHR) USSR amendment, 12 May 1948


• Drafting Committee (CHR) Meeting Summary, 14 May 1948


• Drafting Sub-Committee (CHR) Report, 14 May 1948


• Drafting Committee (CHR) Meeting Summary, 21 May 1948


• 1949


• CHR Meeting Summary, 31 May 1949


• CHR Report, 28 June 1948


• CHR Recapitulation of amendments, 24 May 1949


• CHR Philippines amendments, 23 May 1949


• CHR Philippines corrigendum to amendments, 27 May 1949


• CHR Philippines-United States amendment, 1 June 1949


• CHR Meeting Summary, 1 June 1949


• CHR Meeting Summary, 1 June 1949


• CHR United States proposals, 6 May 1949


• CHR France-Egypt amendment, 1 June 1949


• CHR United Kingdom amendment, 1 June 1949


• CHR Lebanon amendment, 1 June 1949


• CHR Chile amendment, 1 June 1949


• CHR Yugoslavia amendment, 1 June 1949


• CHR Meeting Summary, 2 June 1949


• CHR Chile, Egypt, France, Philippines and United States proposal, 2 June 1949


• 1950


• CHR Meeting Summary, 11 April 1950


• CHR Report, 23 June 1949


• CHR Government Comments, 22 March 1950


• CHR Government Comments, 22 March 1950


• CHR Denmark amendment, 11 April 1950


• CHR Meeting Summary, 14 April 1950


• CHR United States amendment, 14 April 1950


• CHR Meeting Summary, 17 April 1950


• CHR Meeting Summary, 17 April 1950


• CHR United Kingdom amendment, 17 April 1950


• CHR Meeting Summary, 18 April 1950


• CHR Meeting Summary, 18 April 1950


• CHR France-Belgium amendment, 18 April 1950


• CHR Meeting Summary, 24 April 1950


• CHR United States amendment, 21 April 1950


• CHR United Kingdom amendment, 24 April 1950


• CHR India amendment, 24 April 1950


• CHR Meeting Summary, 24 April 1950


• CHR France, India, United Kingdom and United States amendment, 24 April 1950


• CHR Meeting Summary, 18 May 1950


• Social Committee (ECOSOC) Meeting Summary, 25 July 1950


• CHR Report, 25 May 1950


• Third Committee (GA) Meeting Summary, 20 October 1950


• Third Committee (GA) Meeting Summary, 20 October 1950


• 1951-1952


• CHR Meeting Summary, 2 June 1952


• CHR Report, 19 May 1951


• CHR General Adequacy of the First Eighteen Articles, 2 April 1951


• CHR General Adequacy of the Provisions Concerning Civil and Political Rights, 20 March 1952


• CHR USSR amendment, 19 May 1952


• CHR United States amendment, 19 May 1952


• CHR United Kingdom amendment, 19 May 1952


• CHR France amendment, 19 May 1952


• CHR France amendment, 19 May 1952


• CHR Meeting Summary, 5 June 1952


• CHR France amendment, 2 June 1952


• CHR France amendment, 29 June 1952


• CHR Meeting Summary, 5 June 1952


• CHR Meeting Summary, 9 June 1952


• CHR USSR amendment, 19 May 1952


• CHR United Kingdom amendment, 19 May 1952


• CHR France amendment, 19 May 1952


• CHR United States amendment, 6 June 1952


• CHR France amendment, 9 June 1952


• 1954


• Third Committee (GA) Meeting Summary, 28 October 1954


• CHR Report, 16 April 1954


• Third Committee (GA) Meeting Summary, 1 November 1954


• Third Committee (GA) Meeting Summary, 11 November 1954


• 1955-1959


• Third Committee (GA) Meeting Summary, 19 November 1959


• Third Committee (GA) Government Observations, 30 June 1955


• Third Committee (GA) Government Observations, 27 July 1955


• Third Committee (GA) Government Observations, 2 August 1955


• Third Committee (GA) Government Observations, 13 September 1955


• Third Committee (GA) Annotated Draft International Covenants on Human Rights, 1 July 1955


• Third Committee (GA) United Kingdom amendment, 6 November 1959


• Third Committee (GA) Netherlands amendment, 6 November 1959


• Third Committee (GA) Afghanistan amendment, 9 November 1959


• Third Committee (GA) Italy- Japan amendment, 9 November 1959


• Third Committee (GA) Argentina amendment, 18 November 1959


• Third Committee (GA) Meeting Summary, 19 November 1959


• Third Committee (GA) Israel amendment, 6 November 1959


• Third Committee (GA) Israel amendment, 19 November 1959


• Third Committee (GA) Meeting Summary, 20 November 1959


• Third Committee (GA) Israel amendment, 19 November 1959


• Third Committee (GA) Argentina amendment, 19 November 1959


• Third Committee (GA) Italy amendment, 19 November 1959


• Third Committee (GA) Meeting Summary, 23 November 1959


• Third Committee (GA) Italy-Japan amendment, 20 November 1959


• Third Committee (GA) Ceylon amendment, 20 November 1959


• Third Committee (GA) Ceylon amendment, 20 November 1959


• Third Committee (GA) Meeting Summary, 23 November 1959


• Third Committee (GA) Israel amendment, 23 November 1959


• Third Committee (GA) Working Paper, 23 November 1959


• Third Committee (GA) Meeting Summary, 24 November 1959


• Third Committee (GA) Canada, Ceylon and Pakistan amendment, 23 November 1959


• Third Committee (GA) Italy amendment, 23 November 1959


• Third Committee (GA) Meeting Summary, 25 November 1959


• Third Committee (GA) Amendments, 24 November 1959


• Third Committee (GA) Canada, Ceylon, Iran, Italy, Japan, Jordan and Pakistan amendment, 24 November 1959


• Third Committee (GA) Report, 3 December 1959


• Third Committee (GA) Meeting Summary, 26 November 1959


• Third Committee (GA) Meeting Summary, 27 November 1959


• Third Committee (GA) Mexico-Saudi Arabia amendment, 26 November 1959


• Third Committee (GA) Meeting Summary, 3 December 1959


• Third Committee (GA) Draft text, 26 November 1959


• Third Committee (GA) Corrigendum to Draft text, 27 November 1959


• Third Committee (GA) Rapporteur suggestions, 1 December 1959

About the author

Amal Clooney is a barrister who specialises in international law and human rights. She regularly appears before the United Nations and international courts including the International Criminal Court, the International Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights. She specialises in cases involving political prisoners and has won multiple awards for her work in freeing journalists imprisoned for their work around the world. She is also a specialist in representing victims of mass atrocities including Yazidi victims of genocide in national courts and Darfuri victims before the International Criminal Court. She is appointed to the UK Attorney General's specialist Public International Law Panel of Counsel, was appointed to an expert panel on media freedom by the former President of the UK Supreme Court, and served as a senior advisor to Kofi Annan when he was the UN's Envoy on Syria. She is a Visiting Professor at Columbia Law School and co-founder of the Clooney Foundation for Justice.

Philippa Webb is Professor of Public International Law at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London and a barrister at Twenty Essex. She is a specialist in international law and advises governments, individuals, and corporations in cases before international and domestic courts, including the International Court of Justice, the European Court of Human Rights, and the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. She is appointed to the UK Attorney General's specialist Public International Law Panel of Counsel. Professor Webb has served on the International Advisory Panel for the American Law Institute's project Restatement Fourth, Foreign Relations Law of the United States and the governing board of the European Society of International Law. She is on the editorial boards of the Journal of International Criminal Justice, the International & Comparative Law Quarterly, and the Leiden Journal of International Law.

Summary

This volume brings together for the first time the complete travaux to Article 14 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In doing so, it contributes to a thorough and informed understanding of the right to a fair trial, the world's most litigated human right.

Product details

• Authors: Amal (Barrister Clooney
• Assisted by: Amal Clooney (Editor), Philippa Webb (Editor), Webb Philippa (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9780192897923
• ISBN: 978-0-19-289792-3
• No. of pages: 356
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, LAW / Criminal Law / General, LAW / International, International Criminal Law, Public international law: criminal law, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law, International Organisations & Institutions