COLONEL WILLIAM A. NOTT (RETIRED)
Colonel
Nott was commissioned into the Artillery Corps of the Irish Defence Forces in
1964 and served as an artillery officer in Cyprus (UNFICYP) in 1967/1968. He was called to the Irish Bar in 1969 and
served as a legal officer in Cyprus in 1971, Sinai (UNEF II) in 1973/1974
and Lebanon (UNIFIL) 1979/1980 and
1981/1982.
He is a
member of the International Institute of Humanitarian Law (IIHL), San Remo, Italy
and a member of the teaching staff for the international military courses on
the law of armed conflict since 1990 as well as being a member of the Advisory
Board of the Institute.
In 1995 he
served with UNPROFOR in former Yugoslavia
and as Deputy Chief of Mission
of the United Nations Military Observers Privlaka (UNMOP). During 1998 and 1999 he served as a member of
the delegation of Ireland at the Diplomatic Conference in Rome which
established the International Criminal Court (ICC) and was also a delegate at
The Hague for the Diplomatic Conference on the Second Protocol to the Hague
Convention 1954 for the Protection of Cultural Property in the event of Armed
Conflict. In 2000 he was appointed to the Board of Directors of the
International Society for Military Law and the Law of War (Brussels).
Col Nott
retired from the Defence Forces as Director of Legal Service and Director of
Military Prosecutions in 2009.