Khan defeated Fergal Gaynor an Irishman and two other contenders from Spain and Italy...

Africa Confidential has seen correspondence detailing Nairobi's hostility to the candidacy of Ireland's Fergal Gaynor who was runner-up to Karim Ahmad Khan in the final round of voting in New York on 12 February...

It questioned whether any of the original shortlisted candidates (Morris Anyah of Nigeria; Fergal Gaynor Ireland; Susan Okaluny Uganda; and Richard Roy Canada) had adequate credentials or sufficient gravitas to be the ICC's next Chief Prosecutor...

Soon after a lawyer for the victims in the Kenyatta case Fergal Gaynor made a successful application for the publication of the brief which summarised the evidence against Kenyatta (AC Vol 55 No 25 How the case was won)...