An answer from Westminster to the claim that international law has never worked Toby Cadman, Head of Chambers | 1 October 2026 The Charge This year’s London Conference on International Law is meeting in Westminster, a short walk from Church House, where in the summer of 1945 representatives of four Allied powers negotiated the instrument that would put the leaders of the Third Reich on trial. It was a strange setting, then, in which to hear one of the recurring questions of t

This week’s briefing covers key legal and judicial developments across the Western Balkans, highlighting issues of accountability, judicial independence, constitutional challenges, war crimes and the rule of law.

Toby Cadman examines four recent atrocity trials in Bosnia, Kosovo, Bangladesh and Syria, arguing that credible accountability depends not on institutional design alone, but on fairness, transparency, public ownership and the quality of judicial reasoning.