The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon also appointed Hocking on 18 January 2012 as the first Registrar of the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals and entrusted him with its effective start-up.
潘基文先生也于2012年1月18日任命霍金先生担任国际刑事法庭余留机制的第一任登记官，负责该机制的启动工作。