Andrew Cayley CMG QC FRSA - Prosecuting Genocide: the crime of crimes by Liverpool John Moores University

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Andrew Cayley CMG QC FRSA - Director of Service Prosecutions and former United Nations International Prosecutor presented a lecture entitled 'Prosecuting Genocide: the crime of crimes'.

Genocide was first recognised as a crime under international law by the United Nations General Assembly in 1946. The crime was then codified by the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. The heart of the offence is targeted actions aimed at the destruction of a particular group of people. Andrew Cayley has investigated and prosecuted genocide in both Bosnia-Herzegovina and Cambodia. In this lecture he will explore the origins of the crime and share his experiences of investigating and prosecuting the 'crime of crimes'.

Andrew T. Cayley CMG QC FRSA is the United Kingdom’s Director of Service Prosecutions and is responsible for the prosecution of all cases before the Service Courts. Until 2013 he was the United Nations Chief International Co-Prosecutor of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge Tribunal, responsible for prosecuting the leadership of the Khmer Rouge for the genocide, extermination and murder of up to two million of their own citizens between 1975 and 1979. Prior to this, he was Senior Prosecuting Counsel at the International Criminal Court where he led the first investigation and pre-trial proceedings in respect of allegations of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes committed since July 2002, in Darfur Sudan. Up until 2005 and for a period of ten years he was Prosecuting Counsel and then Senior Prosecuting Counsel at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia where, amongst other cases, he was co-counsel in the prosecuting team that secured the court’s first conviction for genocide in respect of events at Srebrenica in Bosnia-Herzegovina in July 1995.