As a preliminary matter, the article considers different legal regimes pertaining to the power of the international criminal tribunals to punish conduct that tends to impede or frustrate the good administration of justice, from Nuremberg to the UN Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals. It further examines the actus reus and mens rea of the offence of giving false testimony under solemn declaration, pursuant to article 70(1)(a) of the Rome Statute. It separately evaluates whether materiality of the false testimony is a requisite legal element of this offence. In conclusion, the article observes that few offences are carried out with greater impunity in the international criminal proceedings, and cautions against a risk of routinisation of false testimony due to a deliberate non-enforcement of its prohibition.

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《罗马规约》中庄严宣誓下作假证罪

作为初步事项，本文考虑了不同的法律制度，这些制度与国际刑事法庭惩罚往往阻碍或阻碍良好司法的行为的权力有关，从纽伦堡到联合国国际刑事法庭机制。它还根据《罗马规约》第 70 条第 1 款(a)项进一步审查了根据庄严声明提供虚假证词的犯罪行为和犯罪意图。它单独评估虚假证词的重要性是否是该罪行的必要法律要素。总之，文章指出，在国际刑事诉讼中，很少有犯罪行为更逍遥法外，并告诫人们不要因故意不执行禁令而导致虚假证词常规化。