Jamaican Judge elected to War Crimes Tribunal
Published:Tuesday | November 4, 2008 | 12:40 PM
Patrick Lipton Robinson, a Jamaican judge serving at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, was today elected President of that Tribunal.
He will assume duties on November 17.
Judge Robinson was first elected to the Tribunal in 1998 and has been re-elected twice since.
He has served as the Presiding Judge for Trial Chamber Three since 2004 and oversaw the historic trial of the former President of Yugoslavia, Slobodan Milosevic, the first former Head of State to be brought to trial for war crimes.
Mr. Robinson has had a long and distinguished career in public service, in Jamaica and internationally, particularly, in the field of International Law.
He began his professional career working as a Crown Counsel in the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions.
He held the post of Legal Adviser in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and held a number of positions in the Attorney General’s Department, serving for 12 years as Deputy Solicitor General of Jamaica.
He was a member of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights from 1987 to 1995, serving as its Chairman in 1991 and representing it in cases heard by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
Patrick Robinson also served as Jamaica’s representative on the Legal Committee of the United Nations General Assembly to which he was accredited as an Ambassador.