19 Facts About Geoffrey Nice

Sir Geoffrey Nice KC was born on 21 October 1945 and is a British barrister and former part-time judge.

Geoffrey Nice took part in the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and was lead prosecutor at Slobodan Milosevic's 2002 trial.

In 2017, Nice published a book, "Justice for All and How to Achieve It".

In 2005, Geoffrey Nice received an Honorary Doctorate of Law from the University of Kent at Canterbury, and in 2021 he received an Honorary Doctorate of Law from the University of Buckingham.

Geoffrey Nice became a barrister in 1971 and was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1990.

Geoffrey Nice has been involved with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.

Geoffrey Nice was lead prosecutor at the 2002 trial of Slobodan Milosevic in The Hague and initiated the prosecution's initial case of linking atrocities committed in the former Yugoslavia to Milosevic.

Geoffrey Nice prosecuted the ICTY cases of the Bosnian Croat Dario Kordic and the successful prosecution of Goran Jelisic.

Geoffrey Nice has been active in the International Criminal Court and in pro bono work for victims groups.

In December 2010, Geoffrey Nice reviewed this book on London Review of Books.

Geoffrey Nice alleged that the prosecutor of the ICTY, Carla Del Ponte, had compromised with Milosevic, which then led to a failure of Bosnia-Herzegovina in their genocide case against Serbia in February 2007.

Geoffrey Nice was the chair of the China Tribunal, independently initiated by the International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China.

Geoffrey Nice was asked to become the head of 2021 Uyghur Tribunal by the World Uyghur Congress to examine evidence regarding the ongoing human rights abuses against the Uyghur people by the Government of China.

In 2021, in retaliation for sanctions issued against Chinese officials by the United States, European Union and United Kingdom, the People's Republic of China issued sanctions against Geoffrey Nice that banned him from entering territory that the country controls or from doing business with Chinese persons.

In 2015, Geoffrey Nice chaired a panel discussion at Gresham College on the Gaza-Israel conflict to discuss the possibility of war crimes being committed.

The Geoffrey Nice Foundation was founded by Nice in 2014.

In 2009, a conviction Geoffrey Nice had presided over was ordered quashed and retried, after a Privy Council Appeal found his handling of the case had resulted in an unfair hearing.

One reason that Geoffrey Nice was criticized by the Privy Council for his was his unfair handling in the trial of a St Helier-based accountant Peter Michel.

In 2009 the Privy Council quashed the conviction against Michel, and said that Geoffrey Nice had been hostile, sarcastic, mocking, and patronising toward the defendant in an excessive number of inappropriate interventions during the trial, and that such action had rendered the trial unfair.