Special Court Attorney With Full Rights Like Schwendiman

The Specialised Prosecutor's Office reports that Ip's mandate will be extended until the appointment of a new Specialised Prosecutor.

He has the same authorities of a specialised prosecutor, and there will be no interruptions in the work of SPS in any respect.

Special Tribunal Prosecutor Davy Schwendiman concluded his mandate, while instead, with full prosecutor's rights, he will replace Kwai Hong Ip, who was deputy to Schwendiman and task leader since his departure announced months ago.

So the special work will continue without any delay, although Schuenjman has officially completed his term after three days.

Below, find your new prosecutor's professional biographies:

Ip is a British lawyer with extensive experience both in the international prosecutor and in the Western Balkans. He has been Schwendiman's deputy even as the Special Prosecutor and the Chief Prosecutor of the Special Investigative Force (TFHS), the predecessor of the Specialised Prosecutor's Office.

He joined T The FHS in June 2012 as chief deputy and served as chief prosecutor in office from August 2014 to May 2015 after the departure of the first chief prosecutor, Ambassador Clinton Williams and prior to Schwendiman's arrival.

From November 2009 until he joined the TFHS, Ip served as court prosecutor at the Prosecutor's Office at Lebanon's Special Tribunal for The Hague.

Between October 2005 and October 2009, Mr. Ip served in Bosnia and Herzegovina as international prosecutor in the Bosnia and Herzegovina Prosecutor's Office with presentations before the Special War Crimes Department at the State Court.

There, Mr. Ip conducted investigations and prosecutions for four subjects stemming from events in Srebrenica in 1995. Among these has been the first genocide trial in the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina to bring the first genocide sentences to that court, as well as a case that was transferred by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

In addition to a legal career, Ip has previously been a Royal Air Force officer, serving as air mission commander and operational experienced helicopter navigator in several operations in both Northern Ireland and NATO forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Ip has also been a military prosecutor in the Royal Air Force, a legal assistant to KFOR Commander, as well as a lawyer at the UNMIK Department of Justice.

Ip has trained the lawyer's profession in England and the United States near the Association of Lawyers of England and Wales and as a member of California State Lawyers Association. He studied King's College in London at the University of London, at the Royal Air Force Academy in Cranwell, and at the Jury Faculty “Inns of Court” in London.

The European Foreign Action Service has responsibility for the process of appointing Mr. Schwendiman.