Il Consiglio di Sicurezza delle Nazioni Unite ha nominato il 56enne Giudice della Corte Suprema Sudafricana, Richard J. Goldstone, Pubblico Ministero per il Tribunale »ad hoc sulla ex Jugoslavia.

Quello che segue è il »curriculum vitae da egli stesso compilato.

A. CURRENT POSITIONS

Since 1989: Judge of the Appellate Division of the Supreme

Court of South Africa

Since 1991: Chairman of the Standing Commission of Inquiry

Regarding Public Violence and Intimidation

Since 1989: President of the National Institute for Crime

Prevention and Rehabilitation o Offenders (NICRO)

Since 1989: Member of the Council of the University of the

Witwatersrand of the Board of the School of Law.

Since 1990: Chairman of the Standing Advisory Committee

on Company Law.

B. PROFESSIONAL CARREER

1962 : BA LLB (cum laude) University of the Witwatersrand

1963-1980: Barrister at the Johannesburg Bar

1978 : Appointed as senior counsel

1988-1989: Judge of the Transvaal Supreme Court

C. PERSONAL DETAILS

Born at Boksburg, South Africa on 26 October 1938.

Married to Noleen Joy Goldstone on 16 December 1962. Two daughters (29 and 25) and one grandson.

Hobbies: Music, walking, reading and wine.

D. RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

1. As a barrister I had an extensive trial practice - both civil and criminal.

2. As a judge of the Transvaal Supreme Court I sat as both a trial and appellate judge. Much of the trial work was in the criminal court.

3. In 1989 I was appointed as the Chairman and sole member of a judicial investigation into the multiple deaths and injuries caused when members of the South African Police fired into a marching crowd of 50.000 demonstrators at Sebokeng. The investigation lasted some months and the evidence presented was held to have established that the policemen had acted unlawfully. Criminal and civil proceedings followed.

4. My appointment as Chairman of the Standing Commission of Inquiry regarding the Prevention of Public Violence and Intimidation in 1991 was the result of a unanimous decision of the parties to the Peace Accord of that year and, in particular, the former South African Government and the African National Congress.

During the past three years I have been involved extensively in the investigation of political violence and human rights abuses by members of political parties and the South African Security forces. Some 30 separate inquiries were held by the Commission. Important investigations exposed criminal conduct as the part of a department of the South African Military Intelligence and earlier this year on the part of senior members and former members of the South African Police Force. These inquiries involved the initial investigations, obtaining witnesses, and the leading of evidence at public hearings. Criminal prosecutions, for murder and other serious offences, are pending.

The Commission has established its own research institute with financial assistance from the Norwegian Government. It has built up a comprehensive data base on political violence, on international human rights conventions and laws and on the international experience with regard to a truth commissions.

The Commission has also operated a witness protection programme which has operated in South Africa and abroad.

5. For many years I have informally studied and lectured in human rights law and more recently I was one of the early supporters for the establishment of a Truth Commission in South Africa, which has now been agreed in principle by the Government of President Mandela.