Cases & Projects

Among many high-profile cases in which he has been involved, Mark represented the Washington Post correspondent Jonathan Randal at the International Criminal Tribunal on the former Yugoslavia at the Hague, which sought to compel the reporter to give evidence during a hearing on alleged genocide. He argued on Randal’s behalf that if journalists covering conflicts might be required to testify at subsequent war crimes trials this would put them at risk while doing their job.

In the wake of a heavy defeat for the government in regional elections, early general elections had been called. The leader of the opposition alleged that this was because the Chancellor, Gerhard Schroeder, had a lucrative job coming up in a consortium that would build a gas pipeline from Russia - the contract for which he had helped negotiate whilst in office. German magazine, Bild, wanted to include this allegation in an article it was running.