Trial Monitoring

ECCC, Case 002/01, Issue 9

January 19, 2012
ECCC, Case 002/01, Issue 9
Publication Documents
Case or Series

Case 002/01

Case or Series

ECCC

Country

Cambodia

Language

English

From the 16th to 20th of January 2012, the Trial Chamber allowed the Parties to argue their positions on the admissibility of documents in the Case File. The Parties discussed three main legal issues pertaining to the admissibility of evidence: (i) the legal standard for admitting evidence; (ii) the process for putting documents before the Chamber; and (iii) specific objections to documents or categories of documents.  The Chamber did not make any ruling on the admissibility of specific documents, the guidelines for admitting documents, or the process for admitting documents. In its Scheduling Order, the Chamber indicated that, “it will not make final determinations on the majority of individual documents.” Instead, it will rule upon the objections raised by the Defense after it has considered the whole body of evidence at the end of the trial. In addition, the Chamber called two witnesses to testify next week about the process for authenticating the documents in question.