Karl Hudson-Phillips

Karl Terrence Hudson-Phillips QC (born April 20, 1933 - January 15, 2014 in London ) was a lawyer from Trinidad and Tobago and a judge at the International Criminal Court in The Hague from 2003 to 2007 .

Life

Hudson-Phillips studied law at Selwyn College , Cambridge , where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1955 and a Bachelor of Law in comparative law in 1956. In 1959 he graduated from Cambridge University with a Master of Arts .

In 1959 he was admitted to the Gray's Inn Bar Association and in Trinidad and Tobago. From 1970 he was Crown Attorney in Trinidad and Tobago and from 1971 Senior Counsel in Guyana . Hudson-Phillips has also worked as a lawyer in the Caribbean, for example in Jamaica (since 1974), in Antigua and Barbuda (since 1977), in Grenada (since 1983) and in St. Vincent and the Grenadines , St. Kitts and Nevis , Anguilla , the Bahamas , St. Lucia , Barbados and the British Virgin Islands (all since 1985).

Hudson-Phillips was a member of the parliament of Trinidad and Tobago from 1966 to 1976 and served as the country's Justice Minister from 1969 to 1973. In 1974 he founded the National Land Tenants and Ratepayers Association , which campaigned for land law reform. In 1980, he was the founder of the Party Organization for National Reconstruction , which took part in the national elections in 1981, in 1983 a coalition with the National Alliance under Basdeo Panday , Arthur NR Robinson and Lloyd Best entered and 1986 officially with this for the National Alliance for Reconstruction merged which then won the elections in the same year.

In 2003, Hudson-Phillips was elected through List A for a nine-year term as a judge at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, where he was assigned to the Procedural Division. He acted as Chairman in the first sessions of the Court until the election of the President and Vice-Presidents. He was also actively involved in drafting the Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice. On March 14, 2007, he resigned from his position with effect from September 30, 2007 for personal reasons. As part of the by -election made necessary by his resignation and the resignation of Justices Claude Jorda and Maureen Harding Clark , Daniel David Ntanda Nsereko from Uganda , Fumiko Saiga from Japan and Bruno Cotte from France were elected to the court.

On July 23, 2010, Hudson-Phillips was appointed by the President of the UN Human Rights Council to head a commission of inquiry into the Ship-to-Gaza incident . In its report, the commission concluded that the Israeli approach to the storming was "disproportionate" and testified to a "completely unnecessary and incredible level of violence".

He died on January 15, 2014 in London.

Publications (selection)

• The settlement of labor disputes in Trinidad and Tobago . Port of Spain 1969.
• A Case for Greater Public Participation in the Legislative Process . Oxford University Press, 1987.
• Law and Practice of Arbitration in Trinidad and Tobago . In: International Commercial Arbitration Bulletin 1997.

literature

• Hudson-Phillips, Karl (Trinidad and Tobago). In: Election of the Judges of the International Criminal Court. Addendum: Alphabetical List of Candidates (with Statements of Qualifications). Document no. ICC-ASP / 1/4 / Add.1. Published by the Assembly of the Contracting Parties to the International Criminal Court, 2002, pp. 86–90, available at: http://daccess-dds-ny.un.org (PDF; 1.57 MB; English)

Web links

• Short biography on the homepage of the ICC Short biography on the homepage of the ICC (English, French)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Resignation of Judge Karl T. Hudson-Phillips ( Memento June 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), accessed August 1, 2011.
2. ↑ http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/15session/A.HRC.15.21_en.PDF
3. ^ Gerard Best: PM sends condolences to Hudson-Phillips' family. Guardian, January 16, 2014, accessed January 25, 2014 .