Is the concept of aiding and abetting international crimes leading to the 'fragmentation' of International Criminal Law? / Zoom In
Aiding and abetting international crimes and the value of judicial consistency: reflections prompted by the Perisic, Taylor and Sainovic verdicts
1. Introduction Recent judgments issued by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and by the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) dealing with aiding and abetting international crimes have triggered unprecedented debate on the risks of fragmentation (at times also, and more positively, characterized as ‘pluralism’[1]) within international criminal law. In this...
