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| | | Justice Julia Sebutinde Elected Presiding Judge of Trial Chamber II
1/18/2007 6:43 PMJustice Julia Sebutinde of Uganda has been elected Presiding Judge of Trial Chamber II. She succeeds Justice Richard Lussick, who ended his one-year term as Presiding Judge on 17 January 2007.
Pursuant to Rule 27 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence, the Presiding Judge of each Trial Chamber shall be elected for a renewable term of one year. It has, however, been the general practice of both Trial Chambers to rotate the position of the Presiding Judge at the end of each one-year term.
Justice Julia Sebutinde, a British-trained Ugandan lawyer, was called to the bar in 1979. From 1978-1996 she worked within Uganda's Ministry of Justice, where she rose to the level of Principal State Attorney/Principal Legislative Counsel. From 1991-1996 worked for the Commonwealth Secretariat, London, as a Legislative Consultant, and was seconded to the newly-independent Republic of Namibia, where she was attached to the Ministry of Justice as a Legislative Expert.
In 1996 she was appointed Judge of the High Court of Uganda. Between 1999 and 2001 Judge Sebutinde chaired three high-level Commissions which investigated allegations of corruption in the Uganda Police Force, the Ministry of Defence and the Uganda Revenue Authority, respectively.
Justice Sebutinde joined the Special Court in January 2002. She was appointed by the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Trial Chamber II, consisting of Justice Sebutinde, Justice Richard Lussick and Justice Theresa Doherty, is currently considering verdicts in the case of the three alleged former leaders of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC).
Trial Chamber II has also been assigned the case of The Prosecutor vs. Charles Ghankay Taylor. That trial will take place in The Hague.
Published in: Press Release, Justice Julia Sebutinde Elected Presiding Judge of Trial Chamber II, Press and Public Affairs Office, Special Court for Sierra Leone, Jan. 18, 2007.
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