NationStates Jolt Archive

This is only partly done plese give me what you think it needs or what should be taken out.


Purpose: To bring to justice both international criminals and criminal organizations and to interpret and enforce Treaties, Conventions, and World Assembly resolutions.

1. An international criminal will be defined as any person who has committed felonious crimes in several countries or is part of an international criminal organization.

2. An international Criminal organization will be defined as any group of people who commit felonious crimes in several countries or have deviated against any resolution of the World Assembly. If any organization is proven to be criminal all persons who can be proven to be members of said group will be deemed international Criminal.

3. A treaty or convention shall be defined as an agreement between one or more nations in regard to trade, military actions and conflict, or any written contract requiring countries obligated by it to meet the standard(s) of said contract.

Organization:

1. The World Court Shall consist of 11 justices.

I'm not quite sure how the justicies would be nominated or how I will arrange for all the jobs of the court to be done in an efficient manner.

We of Tai Lao are a bit... Sceptical, I feel is the word, of a World Court. Given that the WA has no world police, and can not have one, it will make international jurisdiction and co-operation a bit more difficult. Individual nations will want to try criminals for acts in their domain on their own terms, and while a World Court would be a compromise of the squabbling of 'who first', the outcomes may not satisfy all parties, and there could be differences of opinions over the sentencing too.

Perhaps the addition of a clause whereby those convicted serve out their sentences for each crime in the countries that the crime was committed, and via those countries methods of sentencing, with a compromise reached in certain circumstances (IE, a compromise where the criminal can serve the sentences of 2 countries concurrent rather than consecutively).

As for the issue of justices, it is my understanding they will simply appear. This could possibly be a better and perhaps unbiased solution rather than being under the justices of the offended countries, since that would be better suited to the counties themselves.

-Ariovist Lynxkind, Ambassador

A normally quite man, the Shazbotdom Empire's Ambassador to the World Assembly, Mr. Hank Hjelmstad, gentally clears his throat then leans over towards the microphone in front of him.

"The Idea of a World Court was thrown around multiple times throughout the past few decades. The reason it has been dismissed was because there is no real way to enforce it. With how many nations there are that are not a member of the WA, any criminal who is wanted by the WA for crimes could, in fact, escape the justice from this Court System by getting amnesty from one of these non-aligned nations."

He gentally takes a sip from a cup of water.

"With that being said. I feel that it is up to the individual nations to uphold the laws of the WA within their national boarders and it would be a matter of National Soverignty to give up that power to a higher court such as the one you are attempting to draft a proposal for. As one of many nations that has voiced their oppinion against this type of thing, the Shazbotdom Empire will stand to give up the prosecution of criminals of any kind, be it those criminals in violation of our own laws to the criminals in violation of WA Resolutions, to a court that we feel will be detrimental to the stability of this governing body. The Shazbotdom Empire will vote against this if it ever reaches the floor."

He then leans back in his chair to let that sink in.

ok I think i'll just cut this idea out.