Toby Cadman, Head of Chambers | 9 October 2026 On behalf of everyone at Outline Chambers, I extend our warmest congratulations to Judge Navanethem Pillay, who this morning was named the laureate of the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian Nobel Committee has honoured her for her efforts to promote peace and international law, and has spoken of the exceptional courage and integrity with which she has led the way towards a more comprehensive global legal order. It is difficu

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