page_title: International Council of Jurists
section_title: 2013
hierarchical_section_title: International Council of Jurists / Activities / 2013
caption_attribution_description: English: chief justice sundaresh menon 2019 singapore management university school of law
context_page_description: The International Council of Jurists is a company based in London, England that organizes seminars and conferences in London and India, and gives out awards. It charges fees for membership, conference sponsorship and advertising.
  In April 2020 its president, Adish Aggarwala, launched a conspiracy theory in which he claimed the Chinese had deliberately launched the COVID-19 pandemic to further its ambitions to become a superpower. The Indian government disowned any connection with the ICJ and its views, but the story created a sensation in the Indian press.
context_section_description: In 2013 the International Council of Jurists wrote a letter to President Mahinda Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka that supported impeachment of Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake.
  The Chief Justice of Pakistan, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, a vice-president of the ICJ, dissociated himself from this letter in a statement on the website of the Supreme Court of Pakistan.
  Neither Chaudhry nor the two British jurists named as vice-presidents on the ICJ website, Navnit Dholakia, Baron Dholakia and Gavin Lightman, had been aware of the letter.
  Gavin Lightman resigned from the ICJ.
  The International Council of Jurists and the University of Mumbai jointly organized a lecture on 19 April 2013 in Mumbai.
  Sundaresh Menon spoke on The Impact of Public International Law in the Commercial Sphere and Its Significance to Asia.
  Menon, Chief Justice of Singapore, received the International Jurist Award.
  The 2013 International Conference of Jurists was scheduled for London on 25–26 June 2013.
  Aggarwala said said it would continue discussions which had started in a recent ICJ session in Delhi.
  Topics included human rights and ways to curb terrorism.
caption: Sundaresh Menon, Chief Justice of Singapore, in 2019
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