Andrew Cayley

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Andrew Cayley was a Senior Trial Attorney at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Court in The Hague until 2007. At the ICC he was responsible for the investigation and prosecution of serious violations of international humanitarian law in the Darfur region of Sudan.

Andrew Cayley was born in the United Kingdom in 1964. He was educated at Brighton College and then studied law in London. He was admitted as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of the Judicature of England and Wales in 1989. In 2007 he was called by the Inner Temple to the Bar of England and Wales. After a period in private practice until 1991 with the law firm Thomas Eggar, he served with the British Army as a military prosecutor and command legal adviser in Belize, Germany and the United Kingdom.

Placed on loan service by the British government to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia ('ICTY") in 1995 he investigated and prosecuted the cases of The Prosecutor v. Colonel Ivica Rajic (Stupni Dol), The Prosecutor v. Colonel Tihomil Blaskic, the Prosecutor v. General Radoslav Krstic (Srebrenica), The Prosecutor v Radoslav Brdanin and General Momir Talic. In 2001 he was appointed a Senior Trial Attorney of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia by Carla Del Ponte, Prosecutor of the ICTY. In that capacity he was responsible for the case against General Ratko Mladic and led the first prosecution of members of the Kosovo Liberation Army in 2004.

In February 2005 he was appointed Senior Trial Attorney at the International Criminal Court by the Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo. In 2007 he resigned from the ICC and was immediately instructed by the former President of Liberia Charles Taylor in his defense before the Special Court for Sierra Leone. In July 2007 he joined the chambers of Anthony Berry QC, 9 Bedford Row.

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