Sareta Ashraph

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Sareta has a growing involvement in international criminal law and is currently Co-Counsel on a Defence team representing a senior member of the Revolutionary United Front before the Special Court of Sierra Leone. She has lectured in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Bosnia on international justice issues.

When in England, Sareta is a criminal defence practitioner with a growing Crown Court practice. She is particularly interested in cases involving freedom of expression and political protest as well as cases in which women have been charged with violent offences. She undertakes work with the Bar Pro Bono Unit.

Background

Sareta has worked as a legal researcher in the Washington DC-based National Organization for Women before completing her Masters in International Humanitarian Law. She researched her thesis at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and worked in the West Bank assisting in investigations of allegations of violations of international humanitarian law following 'Operation Defensive Shield' in 2002. She is a national of Trinidad and Tobago and is also called to the Bar there.

Publications

"Civilians, combatants and the laws of war in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict", Legal Executive, August 2003

Societies

Sareta is a member of Amnesty International and the Bar Human Rights Committee.

Year of Call

2002, Bar of England and Wales; 2004 Trinidad and Tobago

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