Maureen Harding Clark

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Maureen Harding Clark (born January 3, 1946 ) is an Irish lawyer . From 2001 to 2003 she was an ad litem judge at the International Criminal Court for the former Yugoslavia , and from 2003 to 2006 a judge at the International Criminal Court in The Hague . Since then she has been a member of the High Court of Ireland .

Life

Clark attended the Bukit Nanas School in Kuala Lumpur and the Muckross Park School in Dublin and then studied from 1964 to 1965 at the University of Lyon , where she obtained a diploma in French language and culture, and from 1965 to 1968 at University College Dublin , where she earned a bachelor's degree in law . From 1972 to 1975 she studied Irish and European law at Trinity College Dublin .

From 1975 Clark worked as a barrister at the South Eastern Circuit and since 1991 as Senior Counsel in Dublin. Both on the criminal defense side and on the prosecution side, she was particularly involved in capital crimes such as rape , murder , money laundering and fraud . As Senior Counsel, she served on numerous defense homicide trials and served on indictment in murder and rape trials for ten years. She served as Senior Counsel on the indictments in both Ireland's first rape trial involving a male victim and the first marriage rape trial and was considered one of the country's leading criminal lawyers.

In 2001 she was elected as ad litem judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, where she served until March 11, 2003. She was a member of the first chamber of proceedings and acted as spokeswoman for the media on the role of the criminal court. In March 2003 she was appointed judge at the International Criminal Court in The Hague for a term of nine years. She worked in the Procedural Division, where she was involved in drafting the rules of procedure and the general infrastructure of the court in preparation for the first proceedings before the Court of Justice.

Effective December 10, 2006, she resigned to go to the Irish High Court. Daniel David Ntanda Nsereko from Uganda , Fumiko Saiga from Japan and Bruno Cotte from France were elected to the Court of Justice as part of the by - election made necessary by their resignation and the resignation of Justices Claude Jorda and Karl Hudson-Phillips the following year .

Publications (selection)

  • The Lourdes Hospital Inquiry: An Inquiry into Peripartum Hysterectomy at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda: Report of Judge Maureen Harding Clark . Stationery Office, Dublin 2006, ISBN 0-7557-7399-3 .

literature

  • Clark, Maureen Harding (Ireland). 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 of the International Criminal Court, 2002, pp. 43–46, available at: http://daccess-dds-ny.un.org/ (PDF; 1.57 MB; English)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.courts.ie/ ( Memento of the original from August 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 30, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.courts.ie
  2. ^ Law Institute journal: The official organ of the Law Institute of Victoria. Vol. 77, 2003, p. 64; also Clark, Maureen Harding (Ireland). 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 of the International Criminal Court, 2002, p. 43, available at: http://daccess-dds-ny.un.org/ ( Memento of the original from December 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was used automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.57 MB; English). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / daccess-dds-ny.un.org
  3. ↑ http://www.icty.org/sid/10572 , accessed July 30, 2011.
  4. ^ Resignation of Judge Maureen Harding Clark ( Memento from August 1, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed July 30, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Clark, Maureen Harding
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1946