Following up on an earlier post, the Appeals Chamber has agreed to receive observations from lawyers Geoffrey Nice and Rod Dixon, representing the Sudanese Government the Sudan Workers Trade Unions Federation and the Sudan International Defence Group (SIDG) in the case against President Bashir.
While a subsequent request by Nice/Dixon to reply to observations by the Prosecution to the Nice/Dixon application under Rule 103 was rejected, the Chamber did grant them leave to submit observations on the narrow issue now before it:
“whether the Pre-Trial Chamber applied the correct legal test under article 58 of the Statute to determine whether there are reasonable grounds to believe that Omar Hassan Ahmad Al Bashir is criminally responsible for genocide.”
Their observations must be filed by 4 p.m. tomorrow (25 September 2009) – Stay tuned . . .
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