News & Briefings
BSQ Partner Attends Saakashvili Press Conference in the Hague
BSQ Partner Roger Sahota attended a press conference in the Hague, Netherlands on 29 May 2018 held by BSQ client Mikheil Saakashvili, the Former Georgian President and Governor of Odessa.
Saakashvili Press Conference Scheduled in Hague
BSQ partner Roger Sahota has been instructed in and will be attending a press conference organised on behalf of the former Georgian Prime Minister Mikheil Saakashvili in the Hague on Tuesday focusing on human rights violations following his expulsion from the Ukraine earlier this year.
Amicus Team including BSQ partner files Appeal in Radovan Karadavic Case
BSQ partner Roger Sahota is part of a team of academics and practitioners who have filed a challenge to the law governing the work of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and other ad hocs tribunal.
Roger Sahota appears at ICTY War Crimes Appeal
BSQ partner Roger Sahota is due to appear at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) next week to deliver closing submissions in the appeal against sentence and conviction of Berislav Pusic.
A New EU Frontier In The Criminal Law – The European Supervision Order
The recent debate on Britains exit from the EU – see post – has brought to our attention a little-known but important new measure that came into force in December 2014 when the UK "opted in" to 35 criminal justice and policing measures which are part of EU law.
War Crimes Prosecution Discontinued
Last Summer last year the practice was instructed in an unusual and high profile UK war crimes investigation.
Roger Sahota Lectures Law Society on International Criminal Law and ECHR
Roger Sahota was invited together with prof. William Schabas to lecture the Law Society on the intersection between international criminal law and the work of the European Court of Human rights.
Al-Jazeera Interviews Roger Sahota on Human Rights Situation in Egypt
Following a press conference to announce the findings of the ICFR human rights delegation to Egypt between 11-15 October 2015, Roger Sahota was interviewed on Al-jazeera English and Arabic and Arabic as well as many other media outlets.
Roger Sahota Instructed in War Crimes Investigation
Roger Sahota has been instructed in a groundbreaking high profile historical domestic war crimes investigation conducted by S015.
Roger Sahota Admitted to ICC List of Counsel
Under Regulation 73.1 of the Regulations of the International Criminal Court, the Registrar of the Court maintains a roster of Counsel included in the List of Counsel, who are available at any time to represent any person before the Court, or to represent the interests of the defence.
In Conversation with Iain Morley QC - Special Tribunal for Lebanon
On the 5th February 2014 I chaired an interesting discussion with Iain Morley QC on the Special Tribunal for the Lebanon.
Waya – What if the Minority View had Prevailed?
The Supreme Court’s (SC) judgment in Waya ([2013] 1 A.C. 294) has been rightly lauded as a landmark decision in the field of post-conviction confiscation. It concerned a mortgage fraud which is dealt with below.