Nationality: Samoa (Asia-Pacific States)
Term: 11 March 2003 - 10 March 2006
Elected from: List A on 7 February 2003
Biography
Judge Slade was elected for a three-year term from the Asian Group of States.
He was formerly Attorney-General of Samoa. He has experience of the Courts and competence in criminal law and procedure, having worked as an advocate and prosecutor from 1967 to 1982. From 1983 until 1993 he served as a senior legal advisor in the Legal Division of the Commonwealth Secretariat in London, working closely with the legal and judicial establishments of Commonwealth member states. For the next ten years, from 1993 until his election to the Court in 2003, he was the Permanent Representative of Samoa to the United Nations in New York. From 1995 onward he led the Samoan delegations to international meetings and other processes for the development of the International Criminal Court. He was a Vice-President at the Rome Conference in 1998, and Coordinator for the Preamble and Final Clauses of the draft Statute of the Court.
