Past Examples

Prison related work

For the Government of Moldova, advice on the release of life sentenced prisoners, March 2023.

For the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights, Amicus curiae with D Galliani and P Reingold, brief in the case of MCallum v Italy heard 23 February 2022.

For the Council of Europe, drafting and revising the European Prison Rules, 2003-2005; 2017-2019.

For the Council of Europe, drafting the Recommendation on the Treatment of Foreign Prisoners, 2010-2012.

For GTZ (German development agency), drafting a Prison Act for Bangladesh, 2011.

For the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime, primary author of a Handbook on the International Transfer of Sentenced Persons, 2011. 

For the Government of Malaysia, advice and legislation on international transfer of sentenced prisoners, 2009.

For the United States Institute for Peace, a Detention Code as part of its series of Model Codes for Post-Conflict Criminal Justice, 2009.

For the Open Society Foundation, advising on an initiative to reduce numbers of pre-trial detainees world-wide 2009. 

For the Council of Europe, drafting the Rules for Juvenile Offenders subject to Sanctions or Measures 2008.

Head of team drafting, on behalf of CIDA and the Council of Europe, a new Prison Code for Bosnia Herzegovina 2006-2007.

For the Open Society Foundation, advising on an initiative to reduce numbers of pre-trial detainees world-wide 2009. 

For the Government of Malawi, first author of the draft Malawi Prison Act 2002-2003.

For Penal Reform International, drafted the Ouagadougou Declaration on Accelerated Prison and Penal Reform in Africa, 2002, and the Kampala Declaration on African Prison Conditions, 1996.

For the South African Department of Correctional Services, primary author of the comprehensive 1998 Correctional Services Act.

Other criminal justice work

For the Council of Europe, seminar contributions on 5 October 2020 and 24 June 2021, and reports on “Lawfulness of pretrial detention and its alternatives in criminal proceedings” as part of the Action Plan on Human Rights, Turkey.

Expert witness on life sentencing, R v Husbands Superior Court of Ontario, Toronto 13 April 2015.

For the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime , primary author of a Handbook on Alternatives to Imprisonment, July to December 2005. 

For the South African Law Commission, Leader of the Project Committee on Sentencing with overall responsibility for developing a national sentencing policy and legislation on sentencing. Author of the report on A New Sentencing Framework 2000. 1-165.

Member of South African government delegation to the Ninth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, Cairo, April 1995. Presented the official position on extradition.

Member of a committee on public demonstrations of the Goldstone Commission of Inquiry into Public Violence and Intimidation (1992) and co-author of the Regulation of Gatherings Act 205 of 1993.

Chair of the committee investigating violence in Mooi River for the Goldstone Commission of Inquiry into Public Violence and Intimidation 1992.

Management Experience

Member of the Board of Penal Reform International 2010 - 2021 (Chair of the Board 2016 -2021).

Member of advisory board of project “Working towards harmonised detention standards in the EU – the role of National Preventive Mechanisms”, University of Vienna, 2019 – 2020.

Member of advisory board of project “Prisons: the Rule of Law, Accountability and Rights” Trinity College Dublin, 2019 - 2022.

Member of the Executive Council of the International Centre for Law and Legal Studies (government of Malaysia) 2011 -2016.

Member of the scientific board of the Atlas of Torture project of the University of Vienna 2010-2013. Member of the Scientific Council of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, 2008-2014.  

Member of the Board of the Civil Society Prison Reform Initiative, Cape Town, 2003-2005.

Member of the board of the Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Queen’s University, Belfast 2002-2010. 

Member of the board of the International Centre for Prison Studies, King's College London 1997-2014.

Member of the Advisory Committee of Human Rights Watch Africa, 1997-2006.

Member of the South African National Advisory Council on Correctional Services and its successor body the National Council on Correctional Services, 1995-2004.