Papers by Diletta Marchesi
Israel Law Review, 2021
In July 2020 the International Criminal Court opened the trial in the Al Hassan case. For the fir... more In July 2020 the International Criminal Court opened the trial in the Al Hassan case. For the first time in the history of international criminal justice a defendant is being tried with the charge of the war crime of sentencing or execution without due process in the context of a non-international armed conflict. Together with its equivalent in international armed conflicts – the war crime of denying a fair trial – this offence falls within the category of the war crimes of denying judicial guarantees. Although there are differences in their constitutive elements, both offences prohibit states and armed non-state actors from depriving prisoners of war and civilians of certain minimum judicial guarantees. The provisions that regulate these two crimes, however, present interpretative and practical issues which, so far, have not received sufficient consideration. Most notably, the material elements of the offences raise a range of interpretative doubts and are of cumbersome application...
The present article aims to discuss the protection of the right to silence in the Italian crimina... more The present article aims to discuss the protection of the right to silence in the Italian criminal justice system for an international audience. In Italy, the right to silence is a right that stems directly from the protection offered by the Constitution to the right of defence. Much debate revolves around the extent to which the right deserves to be safeguarded. Although the majority of scholarship favours the broadest extension of the right possible, this view is not endorsed unanimously. The legislature has introduced some limits, the most important being that which confines the right to silence to the facts concerning one’s own responsibility, save for exceptions. The courts, in turn, have taken a softer approach in the protection of the right to silence, which may allow the possibility of using the suspect’s silence to draw adverse consequences. Although the Italian system offers comparatively strong protection to the right to silence, it nonetheless leaves some openings that u...
International Criminal Law Review
In the Ongwen judgment, the International Criminal Court (icc) deemed ‘highly probative evidence’... more In the Ongwen judgment, the International Criminal Court (icc) deemed ‘highly probative evidence’ the Lord’s Resistance Army radio communications intercepted. However, the Defence had argued that it was unreliable evidence for several reasons. After considering the definition and regulatory framework governing the admission and assessment of documentary evidence at the icc and retracing the road intercept evidence made from Uganda to the Ongwen trial, the article will analyse the issues posed by intercept evidence, including some of the challenges the Defence raised against their reliability. The objective is to call attention to the overlooked concerns the interception of communications during the period to which the charges refer may give rise to at the icc, in particular, in terms of reliability. The article argues that intercepted communications’ peculiar weaknesses require specific attention. As a consequence, their reliability and weight should be assessed with circumspection ...
Human Rights Law Review
This article sheds comparative and contextual light on European and international human rights de... more This article sheds comparative and contextual light on European and international human rights debates around the privilege against self-incrimination and the right to silence. It does so through an examination of adverse inferences from criminal suspect’s silence in three European jurisdictions with differing procedural traditions: Ireland, Italy and the Netherlands. The article highlights the manner in which adverse inferences have come to be drawn at trial in the three jurisdictions, despite the existence of both European and domestic legal protections for the right to silence. It also explores differing approaches to the practical operation of inference-drawing procedures, including threshold requirements, varying evidential uses of silence and procedural safeguards. The authors argue that human rights’ standard-setting institutions ought to provide clarity on the conditions under which adverse inferences may be tolerated, including the purpose(s) for which inferences may be use...
◊ Ancora in tema di nomofilachia ◊ Le misure alternative alla detenzione ◊ In tema di colpa medic... more ◊ Ancora in tema di nomofilachia ◊ Le misure alternative alla detenzione ◊ In tema di colpa medica ◊ Sul cyberbullismo ◊ Imparzialità del giudice e esposizione mediatica Tra l'altro in questo numero: Pubblicazione quadrimestrale ISSN 0019-7084 Lavori in corso LA PROVA DEL METODO MAFIOSO Il paradigma di "Mafia capitale" (Tribunale di Roma, sent. 20 luglio 2017*) Moderatore: Gaetano Insolera relatore: Tommaso Guerini 21 febbraio 2018
PREVENIRE È PIÙ SEMPLICE CHE PUNIRE Riflessioni a margine delle recenti modifiche del "codice ant... more PREVENIRE È PIÙ SEMPLICE CHE PUNIRE Riflessioni a margine delle recenti modifiche del "codice antimafia" COORDINATORE: Gaetano Insolera RELATORI: Francesco Mazzacuva e Tommaso Guerini 8 novembre 2017
The objective of the article is to call attention to the delicate but often disregarded issue of ... more The objective of the article is to call attention to the delicate but often disregarded issue of life imprisonment at the ICC, especially regarding how such a penalty could be imposed and reviewed, and the problems this entails. This article contends that several reforms of the ICCS and changes in the ICC’s line of case law should be considered as vital in order to tackle the urgencies caused by some of the provisions of the ICC system concerning life imprisonment. In fact, notably, there are a plethora of elements that render the possible future application of such a grave penalty devoid of fundamental minimum requirements for the protection of the offender, which are essential in the context of a criminal trial.
Book Reviews by Diletta Marchesi
La recente e fervida proliferazione di tribunali penali internazionali che, negli ultimi decenni,... more La recente e fervida proliferazione di tribunali penali internazionali che, negli ultimi decenni, ha investito il diritto internazionale arricchendolo di cospicui e inediti protagonisti non è certamente passata inosservata. Tuttavia, tali nuovi attori della scena globale e la loro notevole giurisprudenza hanno incontrato altra e ben più radicata elaborazione: quella in tema di diritti umani, orbitante intorno a corti regionali ad hoc e organi delle Nazioni Unite. Infatti, sebbene prima facie potrebbe sembrare che queste due realtà siano indipendenti e a sé stanti, in realtà il diritto penale internazionale nasce precipuamente come reazione a gravi e massive violazioni dei diritti umani, dovendo, dunque, tenere in debita considerazione la protezione di questi e gli standard a riguardo enucleati. Di conseguenza, tali realtà non possono atteggiarsi a monadi. Questa circostanza ha destato una basilare ma fondamentale domanda: in che modo i tribunali penali internazionali si rapportano con la giurisprudenza dei tribunali e degli altri organi operanti nell'ambito dei diritti umani e quali effetti questo rapporto ha sulla giurisprudenza dei tribunali penali internazionali?
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