DISCIPLINARY COUNCIL
The Disciplinary Council is an independent organ of the ADC-ICT. It is responsible for monitoring the conduct of members, adjudicating on complaints received against members and providing advisory opinions on ethical related matters and interpretation of the Constitution.
If you would like to submit a request to the Disciplinary Council for an advisory opinion on the ADC’s Constitution, any statute, rules, codes, directives or regulations, or other documents which may be applicable to members at the international courts and tribunals where the ADC is the recognised Association of Counsel (Article 19 of the Constitution), you can do so confidentially to: disciplinary@adc-ict.org
You can also share information confidentially with the Disciplinary Council if you: (i) have reason to believe a full member of the ADC has engaged in conduct contrary to, or in violation of, the ADC’s Constitution, any statute, rules, codes, directives or regulations, or other documents which may be applicable to members at the international courts and tribunals where the ADC is the recognised Association of Counsel (Article 17(2) of the Constitution); or (ii) would like to make a complaint about alleged misconduct of a full member of the ADC (Article 18 of the Constitution).
Aidan Ellis
Chair
Aidan has represented States, Defendants and Victims at the International Criminal Court, the Kosovo Specialist Chambers, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the UN Special Procedures. He is ranked in both Chambers and Partners and the Legal 500 in international criminal law. He is a formerr member of the Executive Council of the International Criminal Court Bar Association. He co-authored chapters of Triffterer’s Commentary on the Rome Statue with Karim Khan KC and was the editorial assistant on the latest edition of Archbold International Criminal Courts. He is currently representing Jakup Krasniqi before the Kosovo Specialist Chambers.
Novak Lukić
Member
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Kimberley Motley
Member
Kimberley Motley has been a litigator for 20 years, with a focus on international criminal law, human rights, and victim rights. She is admitted lawyer in the ICC as Counsel, U.S. Supreme Court, Federal District Courts in Wisconsin, Colorado, and Oklahoma, the U.S. Appellate Courts in the 2nd, 4th, 7th, 9th, and 10th districts. In 2008 she an international law practice in Afghanistan and became the first and only foreigner litigating in the criminal, civil, and commercial courts. Her success has included securing a Presidential Pardon for an Afghan woman charged with adultery which subsequently decriminalized running away as a crime in Afghanistan, successfully working on international child abduction cases which resulted in the return of British and Australian children between the ages of 2 to 10, and representing the Prime Minister of Malaysia Anwar Ibrahim. Her work has been internationally reported and she has trained and/or mentored thousands of lawyers around the world on how to practice law in their respective jurisdictions. Additionally, her work was profiled in an award-winning documentary entitled MOTLEY’s LAW. She has written a book entitled LAWLESS, and her TED TALK on: How Defend the Rule of Law has garnered over a 1.2 million views.
Drazen Plavec
Member
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Ingo Klaus Wamser
Member
Ingo Klaus Wamser is the principal of a German law firm specialized in international and transnational criminal law since 2005. He served as a voluntary board member of the Munich Bar from 2013 to 2015. In 2015 he was appointed as a disciplinary judge for counsel’s misconduct cases by the Bavarian Ministry of Justice and was re-appointed in 2020. Ingo is a founding member of the ICCBA and the KSC-IRB and served in different positions on various committees, i.a. as Chairperson of the ICCBA Membership Committee for three terms. He was appointed as Alternate Commissioner of the ICC in 2019. He is author of a commentary and a handbook for professional standards and disciplinary procedures for counsel and lecturer for international law at an Austrian state university.