John Hocking (born 6 August 1957) of Australia is the United Nations Assistant Secretary-General, Registrar of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). He served concurrently as the Registrar of the

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(UNMICT) from January 2012 until December 2016.

Biography

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Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon appointed Hocking for two terms, first on 15 May 2009 and again on 15 May 2013, to head the Registry of the ICTY, a neutral organ of the Tribunal which provides legal, diplomatic and administrative support to Judges, Prosecution and Defence. He was appointed for a third term by Secretary-General António Guterres on 15 May 2017 to support the completion of the Tribunal's work until its closure on 31 December 2017. The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon also appointed Hocking on 18 January 2012 as the first Registrar of the

and entrusted him with its effective start-up. Hocking joined the ICTY in 1997 as the legal officer coordinator on the ICTY's first multi-accused proceedings, the Celebici case. He subsequently served as Senior Legal Officer for the common Appeals Chambers of the ICTY and the

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. He was the ICTY Deputy Registrar from 2004-09. Prior to his engagement with the United Nations, he held legal and policy adviser positions internationally and domestically, including with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris, the Australian Government's national multicultural television and radio broadcaster, the

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, the

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in London and the Australian Film Commission. In his early career, Hocking served as the legal associate to Justice Michael Kirby, former Judge of the High Court of Australia, and to

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-based human rights lawyer

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Q.C. Hocking has been called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn, London, and has been admitted as a barrister/solicitor with the Supreme Court of Victoria and

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in Australia. He holds a Master of Law with merit from the University of London (

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), a Bachelor of Law from the

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,University of Sydney website
accessed 29 April 2015. and a Bachelor of Science from

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in Melbourne, Australia. He studied at the

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References

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