The Lockerbie Trial: A Documentary History (Terrorism: Documents of International and Local Control: Second Series) Book

This book traces the history of the Lockerbie incident from the evening it occurred on December 21, 1988 through the trial and subsequent appeal to the discontinuance of Libya?s conflict against the United States and the United Kingdom in the International Court on September 10, 2003. It provides the core legal texts relevant to the trial and appeal ? and to the associated International Court conflict. An introductory chapter analyzes the sequence of events establishing that international terrorists are best dealt with in national courts, and not in the international courts and tribunals. States should be prepared to think outside the box when exercising national jurisdiction, as the U.K. did in arranging a trial in another country and with judges replacing a jury as the fact finders. Documents in "The Lockerbie Trial: A Documentary History" include: the petition for arrest, the indictment, the demands of the U.K. and U.S. for the surrender of the two Libyan suspects for trial, the Libyan response to these demands, the various Security Council resolutions endorsing these demands, the trial and the appeal judgments and the order on provisional measures and the judgment on preliminary objections of the International Court of Justice.Read More