“International Best Practices for Ensuring the Right to a Public and Accessible Trial in Cases Involving Armed Conflict” by Emily Patterson
The online discussion “Coverage of court cases in the context of the armed conflict in Ukraine: publicity for the sake of justice» took place on October 25, 2021.
“International Best Practices for Ensuring the Right to a Public and Accessible Trial in Cases Involving Armed Conflict” by Emily Patterson is a Senior Lawyer at International Legal Assistance Consortium (ILAC) and is leading ILAC’s work on Yemen and Haiti.
“Why doesn’t everybody just follow the rules? It’s pretty simple, right?’ In all of our experiences we know it’s not that simple.”
Emily Patterson is a lawyer who has advocated for transparency in judicial systems around the globe. She spoke to Human Rights Vector about issues raised in the guide to covering cases related to the armed conflict in Ukraine (http://hrvector.org/publikacziyi/21-10-25-ww1).
Emily was invited to give her presentation entitled “International Best Practices for Ensuring the Right to a Public and Accessible Trial in Cases Involving Armed Conflict” as a part of Human Rights Vector’s event(https://youtu.be/wzVjsP179MU) “Coverage of court cases in the context of the armed conflict in Ukraine: publicity for the sake of justice”.
Living in the United States, and currently working as a Senior Lawyer with the international NGO International Legal Assistance Consortium, Emily has worked in North America, Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and the Balkans. In her presentation she compared issues in Ukraine to those she has seen in the United States, Kosovo, Georgia, and others.
Co-host of the event Olha Reshetylova was surprised that problems are so similar around the world, and recognized many issues that Emily raised.
In Emily’s experience, everyone in the judicial system says they believe in the right to a public trial, but “many words don’t always line up with actions.”
“Essentially, what needs to be done is transparency must be normalized across all aspects of government. When courts are closed, very often other parts of government are also closed. So it needs to be a sort of societal and institutional value of transparency.”
Emily believes in the importance of civil society being engaged in these issues and was glad to see a large number of participants in the event. She was also glad to see judicial officials participating, which shows to her that they are interested in improving the system.
“You can’t rely entirely on the justice system to provide historical truths, to write the history. It’s one part of it … but it can’t be the only part of it.”
Emily invited anyone with questions about the presentation to contact her at emily@emilypattersonlaw.com.
The full event, including Emily’s presentation, can be seen here(https://youtu.be/wzVjsP179MU).
Author of the article: Benjamin Murdoch
Online discussion organized by the Human Rights Vector NGO and Media Initiative for Human Rights NGO within the project “Armed conflict in Ukraine: communication for justice” with the support of the International Renaissance Foundation (IRF) and The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Ukraine.
“International Best Practices for Ensuring the Right to a Public and Accessible Trial in Cases Involving Armed Conflict” by Emily Patterson is a Senior Lawyer at International Legal Assistance Consortium (ILAC) and is leading ILAC’s work on Yemen and Haiti.
“Why doesn’t everybody just follow the rules? It’s pretty simple, right?’ In all of our experiences we know it’s not that simple.”
Emily Patterson is a lawyer who has advocated for transparency in judicial systems around the globe. She spoke to Human Rights Vector about issues raised in the guide to covering cases related to the armed conflict in Ukraine (http://hrvector.org/publikacziyi/21-10-25-ww1).
Emily was invited to give her presentation entitled “International Best Practices for Ensuring the Right to a Public and Accessible Trial in Cases Involving Armed Conflict” as a part of Human Rights Vector’s event(https://youtu.be/wzVjsP179MU) “Coverage of court cases in the context of the armed conflict in Ukraine: publicity for the sake of justice”.
Living in the United States, and currently working as a Senior Lawyer with the international NGO International Legal Assistance Consortium, Emily has worked in North America, Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and the Balkans. In her presentation she compared issues in Ukraine to those she has seen in the United States, Kosovo, Georgia, and others.
Co-host of the event Olha Reshetylova was surprised that problems are so similar around the world, and recognized many issues that Emily raised.
In Emily’s experience, everyone in the judicial system says they believe in the right to a public trial, but “many words don’t always line up with actions.”
“Essentially, what needs to be done is transparency must be normalized across all aspects of government. When courts are closed, very often other parts of government are also closed. So it needs to be a sort of societal and institutional value of transparency.”
Emily believes in the importance of civil society being engaged in these issues and was glad to see a large number of participants in the event. She was also glad to see judicial officials participating, which shows to her that they are interested in improving the system.
“You can’t rely entirely on the justice system to provide historical truths, to write the history. It’s one part of it … but it can’t be the only part of it.”
Emily invited anyone with questions about the presentation to contact her at emily@emilypattersonlaw.com.
The full event, including Emily’s presentation, can be seen here(https://youtu.be/wzVjsP179MU).
Author of the article: Benjamin Murdoch
Online discussion organized by the Human Rights Vector NGO and Media Initiative for Human Rights NGO within the project “Armed conflict in Ukraine: communication for justice” with the support of the International Renaissance Foundation (IRF) and The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Ukraine.
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