I-DOC

The Investigation Documentation System (I-DOC) is a digital tool for working on facts relevant to serious violations of international criminal or human rights law, including documentation, investigation, analyses, case preparation, trial and later proceedings. Whereas the ICC Legal Tools Database (LTD) and Lexsitus provide users with access to relevant legal sources and legal information essential to understand core international crimes, I-DOC is a tool for practitioners to plan and carry out documentation and investigation work based on the knowledge provided though the LTD and Lexsitus.

I-DOC offers capabilities to systematise large quantities of documentation and evidence, criminal incidents and contextual facts, suspects and institutions involved, victims and witnesses, protected property and objects, and other relevant factual circumstances. It helps to ensure the requisite precision and quality throughout the work processes.

The structure of the database provides effective overview of these information-categories as well as the possibility to map, search and analyse different patterns and linkages. Users can build criminal and human rights cases based on these information-categories, including utilizing a matrix function for case analysis based on the legal requirements of the ICC Statue crimes.

The concept of this tool has been developed by Mr. Ilia Utmelidze, drawing, inter alia, on the ICC Case Matrix, ongoing brainstorming about its conceptualisation, and collaboration with a team of experts. Mr. Utmelidze heads CILRAP’s CMN department and can be reached at utmelidze@cilrap.org.