NEW YORK, March 12 (Hina) - The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has prepared amendments to Tribunal's regulations on the legal aid system in order to stop defence attorneys from splitting fees with
defendants. At issue are defense attorneys who inflated fees and then split them with their clients' families, as a possible condition for being hired by the defendant in the first place. The Hague-based war crimes tribunal plans to issue regulations on April 1 prohibiting free-splitting. It will also institute a new payment system for lawyers. This was included in a report submitted by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the UN Security Council. The report is on the results of an investigation into the work of the ICTY and the UN tribunal on the genocide in Rwanda conducted by the U.N. internal oversight office.(hina) it
NEW YORK, March 12 (Hina) - The International Criminal Tribunal for
the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has prepared amendments to Tribunal's
regulations on the legal aid system in order to stop defence
attorneys from splitting fees with defendants.
At issue are defense attorneys who inflated fees and then split them
with their clients' families, as a possible condition for being
hired by the defendant in the first place.
The Hague-based war crimes tribunal plans to issue regulations on
April 1 prohibiting free-splitting. It will also institute a new
payment system for lawyers.
This was included in a report submitted by UN Secretary-General
Kofi Annan to the UN Security Council. The report is on the results
of an investigation into the work of the ICTY and the UN tribunal on
the genocide in Rwanda conducted by the U.N. internal oversight
office.
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