QUALITY CONTROL IN FACT-FINDING - SECOND EDITION

A comprehensive guide to improving fact-finding mechanisms in international human rights, humanitarian and criminal law investigations. This Second Edition brings together 22 leading experts, including Richard J. Goldstone and Geoffrey Robertson QC, to examine quality control across all stages of fact-work—from identifying and locating facts through to verification, analysis, corroboration and dissemination. The book explores practical improvements for UN human rights systems, international commissions of inquiry, truth and reconciliation commissions, and NGO fact-finding operations. It emphasises developing both individual mindset and institutional culture around quality control, covering essential processes like structuring, organising and presenting evidence. Ideal for investigators, human rights professionals, legal practitioners and policymakers working in international accountability mechanisms. Part of a series supplemented by volumes on preliminary examination and criminal investigation.