Judgment on the Appeal of Mr Edmond Beina against the Decision of Pre-Trial Chamber Entitled “Decision on the Central African Republic’s Challenge to the Admissibility of the case against Edmond Beina” (Int’l Crim. Ct. Appeals Chamber)

In this decision, the International Criminal Court (ICC) Appeals Chamber upheld a decision of the Pre-Trial Chamber that a case against Edmond Beina for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity was inadmissible, on the basis that proceedings against Beina in the Central African Republic’s Special Criminal Court had primacy under the principle of complementarity. It is the first ICC decision granting primacy to an internationalized national court, and both the Pre-Trial Chamber and Appeals Chamber make or reiterate important legal points concerning ICC complementarity analysis in the process of reaching their decisions.