Members of the group have appeared for the defence in cases at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), and the Special Panels for Serious Crimes in East Timor. These cases include at the ICTY the ongoing Prosecutor v Seselj; Prosecutor v Milosevic; Prosecutor v Nikolic (Srebrenica); Prosecutor v Tadic, the first case before the ICTY; and at the ICTR Prosecutor v Nahimana, the “Media Trial”; and Prosecutor v Rwamakuba, which recently resulted in an acquittal. Members of the group are also currently involved in litigation before the European Court of Human Rights. See cases .

Members have also been involved in advising on defence matters at the International Criminal Court (ICC), the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL), and the State War Crimes Court in Sarajevo. One member has recently been recruited as a consultant for the defence before the Extraordinary Chambers of the Cambodian Court (ECCC).

Members of the group were active in establishing the new European Criminal Bar Association of which Rock Tansey QC was the first president.

The International Practice Group has undertaken extensive consultancy work in the field of international criminal law. Members of the group have been involved in drafting an amicus brief on child soldiers on behalf of UNICEF before the SCSL; acting as legal experts for countries at the PrepComs and Assembly of States Parties for the ICC; assisting in the drafting of the Defence Code of Conduct for the ICC; and conducting trial observations and fact finding missions in Turkey and Azerbaijan. Members of the group have provided legal advice to the Kurdish Human Rights Project (KHRP); worked with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights; advised the East Timorese government on accession to the ICC Statute and successfully presented arguments for accession to the East Timorese parliament. The International Practice Group has also advised several NGOs including Amnesty International and the Women’s Initiative for Gender Justice on litigation before the ICC in relation to victims’ rights and representation.

The International Practice Group is actively involved in a number of training programmes in the field of international criminal law. Members of the group have conducted training for judges and lawyers all over the world in countries including Kazakhstan, Holland, Macedonia, Latvia, Serbia, Uganda, Syria, USA and Canada. Members of the International Practice Group have recently been involved in training the judges and prosecutors of the Iraqi High Tribunal; and training judges of the ICC on gender awareness.

International Practice Group members lecture regularly on aspects of international criminal law to domestic and international university audiences including the National University of Ireland; Exeter University, UK; the Graduate School of Law in Latvia; the European University Institute, Florence; the Academy of European Law, Trier; and the University of Indiana, USA.  See Training & Lecturing.

Members of the International Practice Group publish articles on matters concerning international criminal law in Journals including the Criminal Law Forum, the Leiden Journal of International law, and the Journal of International Criminal Justice, and one member of the group is on the Editorial Committee of the Journal of International Criminal Justice. Members have contributed chapters to a number of works including Defense in International Criminal Proceedings (Transnational 2006) and International Criminal Courts (OUP 2005). Members of the group are contributing a number of entries in the forthcoming Oxford Companion to International Criminal Law and Justice (OUP).

Chambers has established links with law firms in Paris and the Hague. See Foreign Associates. We also have a number of door tenants who practice in the field of international criminal law. See Door Tenants.

The International Practice Group is headed by Diana Ellis QC. The folllowing
member of Chambers are members of the International Practice Group:

	Rock Tansey QC
	Diana Ellis QC
	David Hooper
	Jonathan Mitchell
	Chester Beyts
	Leroy Redhead
	Colin Wells
	Sylvia de Bertodano
	Richard Furlong
	Gillian Higgins
	Joanna Evans