حجية الحكم الدولي الجنائي

Abstract EN

The international criminal litigation ends with the issuance of a definitive ruling on the matter, either acquitting the accused or convicting him, so the international criminal law, in this way, is the decision that translates the law’s position on the presented dispute, and it is the last and most important station in the international criminal case and a title for truth and justice, but the issuance of a decisive ruling on the subject it is not sufficient on its own to achieve the desired criminal justice unless these necessary legal rulings are valid before the national judiciary and the international judiciary alike, according to which it is not permissible to raise the dispute and initiate the case again between the same litigants for the same reason and subject.

however, this rule is not absolute, thus the national judiciary and the ICC may, in certain cases, were stipulated and identified within the provisions of the statute of the ICC, not to take into account the authority of these provisions, not to prevent the prosecution of the accused for the same act again.