Judge Ivo Nelson de Caires Batista Rosa | UNITED NATIONS | International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals

Portugal

Education

Institution (Date from - Date to)	Degree(s) or Diploma(s) obtained:
Centre of Judicial Studies (1991 - 1993)	Judge
Law School - University of Coimbra (1985 - 1990)	Degree in Law

Present position: Judge, trainer, and traineeship coordinator and mentor

Years within the firm: Judge since 1993.

Key qualifications: a Law Judge since 1993 with experience in several areas (criminal, civil, family, employment, law). Moreover, I have important experience in criminal law and criminal court, being responsible for jurisdictional functions concerning investigations in the field of terrorist crime, drug trafficking, money laundering, corruption, economic and financial crimes, both at the national and international level. Also in the training area, I have been working with the Portuguese Centre for Judicial Studies since 2006, and I have been a Judge mentor for Judges from foreign developing countries, having international experience in Asia and Africa countries, namely East-Timor and Guinea-Bissau. In the first case, participating in a United Nations programme for reinforcement of the judicial system and, in the second, in an European Union funded project aiming the reinforcement of State of Law. In East-Timor, I was Interim President of the Court of Appeal.

Specific experience regionally

Country	Date from - Date to
East-Timor	2006 - 2009
Guinea-Bissau	2009 - 2010

Professional experience

Date from - Date to	Location		Position	Description
1990 -1991	Lisbon	Lawyer society	Traineeship as Laywer
1991	Funchal	City Council of Funchal	Legal Advisor	Delivering decisions in administrative law matters Instructing labour disputes on grounds of discipline
1993 - 1997	Funchal	Portuguese State	Judge of Court of Generic Competences	Preparing and presiding over trials of criminal, civil, and family nature and delivering its decisions Criminal evidence
1997- 1999	Funchal	Portuguese State	Judge of Employment Tribunal	Presiding over trials of labour nature and delivering final decisions
1999 - 2000	Lisbon	Portuguese State	Judge of Civil Court	Presiding over trials of civil and commercial nature and delivering final decisions
2000 - 2002	Funchal	Portuguese State	Judge of Civil and Criminal Court	Presiding over trials of criminal nature where the sentence would be over five years of prison Rendering decisions Presiding over trials of civil nature and delivering final decisions
2002 - 2003	Lisbon	Portuguese State	Judge of Family Court and of Civil Court	Preparing and proceeding to judgements on family (minors included) trials Presiding over trials of civil nature and delivering final decisions
2003 - 2005	Lisbon	Portuguese State	Judge specialized in criminal and civil law	Presiding over trials of criminal nature where the sentence would be over five years of prison Rendering decisions Presiding over trials of civil nature and delivering final decisions
2005 - 2006	Lisbon	Portuguese State	Judge of criminal evidence in The Central Court of Criminal Evidence	To obtain criminal evidence Jurisdictional functions in relation to investigations in the field of terrorist crime, drug trafficking, money laundering, corruption, economic and financial crimes, both at national and international level
2006 - 2008	East-Timor	United Nations (Programme for Reinforcement of the Judicial System)	Judge in District Courts of East-Timor Mentor Judge for local Judges	Judgement on civil, work, family law and administrative trials Presiding over trials of criminal and civil nature Mentor Judge of seven Judges from East-Timor in the District Court of Dili Cooperation developed with the Centre for Legal Training in East-Timor
2008 - 2009	East-Timor	United Nations (Programme for Reinforcement of the Judicial System)	Judge of Supreme Court Mentor Judge for local Judges	Judge of Supreme Court specialized in judgements in final criminal instance, appeals in relation to civil, administrative, constitutional, and electoral matters Deliver opinions on legislative plans and proposals
2009 - 2010	Guinea-Bissau	EU (PAOSED - Programme for Supporting the Sovereignty Organs and the Rule of Law)	Mentor Judge for criminal law
2009 - on going	Lisbon	Portuguese State	Judge specialized in criminal law	Presiding over trials of criminal nature where the sentence would be over five years of prison Rendering decisions Presiding over trials of a military nature
2010	Lisbon	EU (PAOSED - Programme for Supporting the Sovereignty Organs and the Rule of Law)	Mentor Judge for criminal law
2010	Lisbon		Judicial coordinator and mentor for a traineeship in Portugal, aimed at Judges from East-Timor