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Katrina Domingo

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<p>THE HAGUE, Netherlands — A different set of international legal experts and luminaries have been evaluating the merits of former President Rodrigo Duterte’s jurisdiction challenge, an issue that is expected to result in a landmark decision from the International Criminal Court (ICC).</p><p>Here’s a look at the members of the ICC’s Appeals Chamber, which will deliver their decision on whether or not the tribunal has sufficient authority over the crimes against humanity charges filed against the Philippines’ 16th President, and Asia’s first state leader detained in the Hague.</p><div><a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2026/4/20/final-hurdle-icc-set-to-rule-on-duterte-jurisdiction-challenge-1701">Final hurdle: ICC set to rule on Duterte jurisdiction challenge</a></div><div><br/></div><div><strong></strong><strong>LUZ DEL CARMEN IBAÑEZ CARRANZA </strong></div><div><strong>Presiding Judge</strong></div><div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:600px;display:block" width="600"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1776699674416LUZ DEL CARMEN IBAÑEZ CARRANZA.jpg" style="width:600px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt="Courtesy: ICC" width="600"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left"><em>Courtesy: ICC </em></span></span></span></div><p>Peruvian Luz del Carmen Ibañez Carranza serves as presiding judge of the Appeals Chamber in Duterte’s jurisdiction challenge.</p><p>Before ascending to the ICC, Ibañez Carranza served as a senior national prosecutor in her home country’s specialized system for terrorism, grave violations of human rights, and crimes against humanity.</p><p>During her tenure as a public prosecutor, she worked on several measures for victims&#x27; reparations, searching for missing persons, recovering and identifying human remains in mass graves, rescuing children abducted by armed groups, among others.</p><p>Ibañez Carranza has also worked as a Peruvian delegate to the InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the Inter-American Committee against Terrorism (CICTE) and other international bodies.</p><p>The Peruvian judge has a master&#x27;s degree in criminal law, and holds a doctorate in law.</p><div><a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2026/4/20/drug-war-victims-camp-hopeful-icc-will-keep-jurisdiction-over-duterte-case-but-ready-for-plan-b-0932">Drug war victims’ camp hopeful ICC will keep jurisdiction over Duterte case but ready for Plan B<br/></a></div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div><div><strong>TOMOKO AKANE </strong></div><div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:600px;display:block" width="600"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1776699699297TOMOKO AKANE.jpg" style="width:600px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" width="600"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left"><em>Courtesy: ICC </em></span></span></span></div><p>Japanese jurist Tomoko Akane began her career as a public prosecutor in 1982 and has worked her way up the judicial ladder until she became part of the Supreme Public Prosecutor&#x27;s Office of Japan.</p><p>Before joining the ICC, she tackled a broad range of criminal cases through investigation, prosecution, trial and appeal, and was part of the panel that revised the Juvenile Act of Japan.</p><p>Akane also provided legal technical assistance and capacity building as part of the Asia and Far East Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (UNAFEI), United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programmes Network Institutes (PNI) and at the Research and Training Institute (RTI) of the Ministry of Justice of Japan.</p><p>She was also a professor of Criminal Justice Practice at Nagoya University Law School and Chukyo University Law School from 2005 to 2009.</p><div><br/></div><div><strong>SLOMY BALUNGI BOSSA </strong></div><div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:600px;display:block" width="600"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1776699719678SLOMY BALUNGI BOSSA.jpg" style="width:600px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt="Courtesy: ICC" width="600"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left"><em>Courtesy: ICC </em></span></span></span></div><p>Ugandan judge Slomy Balungi Bossa served as a magistrate at the United Nations Mechanism for the International Criminal Tribunals, the African Court of Human and Peoples&#x27; Rights and the Court of Appeal of Uganda before coming to the ICC. </p><p>She has also worked in the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the East African Court of Justice and the High Court of Uganda. </p><p>She served as vice chairperson of the International Bar Association Human Rights Institute, chairperson of the Legal Aid Clinics of the Law Development Centre, president of the Uganda Law Society, as well as chairperson of the Uganda Law Council and the National Steering Committee on Community Service.</p><p>Bossa is a member of the International Association of Women Judges, the African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights and an Honorary Member of the International Commission of Jurists.</p><p>Before becoming a jurist, Bossa worked as an attorney in private legal practice, a human rights activist who represented indigent women in courts of law, and lectured at the Law Development Centre of Uganda.</p><div><br/></div><div><strong>ERDENEBALSUREN DAMDIN </strong></div><div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:600px;display:block" width="600"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1776699751856ERDENEBALSUREN DAMDIN.jpg" style="width:600px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" width="600"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left"><em>Courtesy: ICC </em></span></span></span></div><p>Mongolian Judge Erdenebalsuren Damdin has three decades of experience working as a judge, prosecutor, and criminal defense counsel.</p><p>Damdin is a former magistrate of the Supreme Court of Mongolia, and has also held senior posts in the Public Prosecution Service of Mongolia and the Office of the Prosecutor General of Mongolia.</p><p>He is known for his contributions to legal reform processes in Mongolia as he provided expert opinion and advisory services to help enhance the national criminal justice system.</p><p>The Mongolian jurist earned his law and his master of law degrees at the Law Faculty of Irkutsk State University.</p><div><br/></div><div><strong>GOCHA LORDKIPANIDZE </strong></div><div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:600px;display:block" width="600"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1776699785599GOCHA LORDKIPANIDZE.jpg" style="width:600px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt="Courtesy: ICC" width="600"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left"><em>Courtesy: ICC </em></span></span></span></div><p>Former Georgian Justice Minister Gocha Lordkipanidze is recognized for being a professor of law, a diplomat and an expert on international law before he joined the ICC.</p><p>Before his career as a senior state official and as part of the international tribunal, Lordkipanidze was a member of the Board of Directors of the Trust Fund for Victims, representing the Eastern European Group of States.</p><p>As part of Georgia&#x27;s Ministry of Foreign Affairs since the early 90s to the mid-2000s, Lordkipanidze was closely involved in the negotiations leading to the adoption of the Rome Statute.</p><p>He represented Georgia in the Preparatory Commission for the International Criminal Court in New York, the relationship agreement between the Court and the United Nations, the Financial Regulations and Rules of the Court, the Agreement on the Privileges and Immunities of the Court, the Rules of Procedure and Evidence, and the crime of aggression.</p><p>He was also a substitute member of the European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission), a member of the Gender Equality Commission of the Council of Europe and served on the Board of the Georgian Red Cross Society.</p><p>Lordkipanidze got his law degree from the Tbilisi State University and obtained his master&#x27;s degrees in international law at the University of Essex and the Harvard Law School.</p>

<p>A different set of international legal experts and luminaries have been evaluating the merits of former President Rodrigo Duterte’s jurisdiction challenge, an issue that is expected to result in a landmark decision from the International Criminal Court (ICC).</p>

A different set of international legal experts and luminaries have been evaluating the merits of former President Rodrigo Duterte’s jurisdiction challenge, an issue that is expected to result in a landmark decision from the International Criminal Court (ICC).

LOOK: ICC Appeals Chamber judges evaluating Duterte’s jurisdiction challenge

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LOOK: ICC Appeals Chamber judges evaluating Duterte’s jurisdiction challenge

Katrina Domingo,

ABS-CBN News

Published April 20, 2026 11:54 PM PHT

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