Iain Bonomy, Lord Bonomy

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Howard Morrison
Personal details
Born (1946-01-15) 15 January 1946 (age 78)
Motherwell, Scotland
Alma materUniversity of Glasgow
ProfessionAdvocate
WebsiteScottish Courts Service

Iain Bonomy, Lord Bonomy,

PC (born 15 January 1946)[1] is a former Senator of the College of Justice, a judge of the Supreme Courts of Scotland, sitting in the High Court of Justiciary and the Inner House of the Court of Session from 2010 to 2012. From 2004 to 2009, he was a Judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.[2]

Early life

Born on 15 January 1946 in

LL.D. by the university.[3]

He undertook his apprenticeship as a solicitor at

Queen's Counsel status in 1993. From 1990 to 1996, he served as an Advocate Depute, and in 1996 served as senior counsel to the Dunblane Inquiry
.

Judicial career

In 1997, he was appointed a

Scottish Executive
of the Practices and Procedure of the High Court; the report, Improving Practice – the 2002 Review of the Practices and Procedures of the High Court of Justiciary was published in December 2002.

In 2004, he was appointed to the

Howard Morrison
.

He was appointed to the

Privy Council in October 2010. He retired in 2012. He was appointed as chairman of the Infant Cremation Commission in April 2013, whose report was published in June 2014.[11]

On 6 February 2020 he was appointed as a Judge to the United Nations International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT).[12] The IRMCT is a small, temporary tribunal continuing the work of the ICTY and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.

References

  1. ^ a b c Biography Note Judge Iain BONOMY
  2. ^ Iain Bonomy (1 May 2007). The Reality of Conducting a War Crimes Trial. Oxford University Press.
  3. ^ "University of Glasgow :: Alumni :: Life after Glasgow". Archived from the original on 5 March 2009. Retrieved 29 March 2009.
  4. ^ a b Scottish judge will oversee run-up to Karadzic trial in The Hague
  5. ^ Lord Bonomy Appointed as Judge to the ICTY
  6. ^ UN court assigns Scottish judge in Karadzic case
  7. ^ "Lord Bonomy to head trial of Serb leader". Daily Record. 3 September 2008.
  8. ^ Security Council resolution 1877 (2009)
  9. ^ ICTY Weekly Press Briefing, 20 August 2009
  10. ^ Scottish Courts biography
  11. ^ "Infant Cremation Commission". Retrieved 1 July 2014.
  12. ^ "Secretary-General appoints Judge Iain Bonomy of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to serve as Mechanism Judge".
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