MANILA, Philippines — International Criminal Court (ICC) Judge Joanna Korner was selected by the tribunal to preside over the trial of former president Rodrigo Duterte.
According to her profile at the ICC website, Korner practiced criminal law for 45 years in the United Kingdom and from 2012 served as a Crown Court of England and Wales, which tries the most serious and complex criminal cases in Britain.
She has also been part of the Queen’s Counsel since 1993, and prosecuted and defended in numerous cases in the courts of England and Wales.
Korner also served eight years as a senior prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia from 1999 to 2004 and from 2009 to 2012.
“As a renowned expert, Judge Korner has organized and taught on numerous training programs on international criminal law and advocacy for judges and lawyers from different regions. Between 2004-2005, she was Senior Legal Adviser to the Chief Prosecutor of Bosnia and Herzegovina, during the establishment of a War Crimes Section in the country's State Prosecutor's Office,” the ICC’s website wrote.
She would join the ICC on March 11, 2021, having been elected from List A, which is a roster of qualified lawyers eligible to practice before the ICC, on Dec. 23, 2020.
Korner is assigned to the trial division and is serving at Trial Chambers I and V of the ICC.
