Offences against the Administration of Criminal Justice in Statute of International Criminal Court

At the international level, like national level, there are certain criminal behaviours which may pervert the right course of justice. Many ad hoc international courts have, in the course of their activities, faced the problem of how to deal with these offences. They usually tried to justify their jurisdiction in triying these offences on the basis of the inherent jurisdiction they have in trying the core crimes, an approach which has been criticized by many lawyers. Based on such an experience, Articles 70 and 71 of the Statute of Intenational Criminal Court have been allocated to offences against the administration of justice, which will be discussed in this article. In the first part, a brief history of the subject is given. The seconf part is allocated to the study of the process leading to the aadoption of Articles 70 and 71 and to the segestions given by states in this respect. In the final sections, offences against the administarion of criminal justice, their trying and the corporation of the member states with the I.C.C in this regard has been discussed.