A Summary of the Case Law of the International Criminal Court

A Summary of the Case Law of the International Criminal Court

March 2007

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Introduction

A. Admissibility of Cases before the ICC

1. Complementarity

2. Gravity

B. Victims’ Participation

1. Criteria for victims’ participation in a situation

2. Criteria for victims’ participation in a case

3. Modalities of victims’ participation

4. Victims’ right to legal representation

C. Confirmation of Charges

1. Clarification of the standard used to confirm charges

2. Definition of the notion of co-perpetration

3. Change in the legal characterization of the charge

4. Reduction of the temporal scope of the charges

5. The scope of the term “national armed forces”
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