Wednesday 5 February 2025 7:00pm to 8:00pm
TBC
About
This is a virtual event.
Judge Gaynor is a full-time international judge at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague, and is a member of the Trial Panel in the Gucati & Haradinaj and Thaci et al, cases. During the 2021 election for the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Judge Gaynor was nominated by the Republic of Ireland and came second to Karim Khan in an extremely competitive field. There were 47 States parties who voted for Fergal.
Judge Gaynor qualified as a corporate lawyer in 1999 at Freshfields, after studying at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Salamanca, The University of Cambridge, and The University of Law. He specialised in commercial litigation and then served for over 4 years and four international courts that operate in English and French.
He was counsel for the prosecution in some of the most complex trials ever held concerning mass human rights violations. These include the trails of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia; of government minister Pauline Nyiramasuhuko and five others at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda; and of Khmer Rouge leaders at the Extraordinary Chambers of the Courts of Cambodia, where he holds the position of Reserve International Co-Prosecutor.
Alongside this, he speaks and reads French and Spanish, and reads Italian and Portuguese.
Moderated by Daniel Holland, St Edmund's College
Further information and queries: Daniel Holland, St Edmund's College: djh261@cam.ac.uk