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Special Court for Sierra Leone, AFRC Trial, Update 85

August 04, 2006
Author(s)
Kiran Grewal
Special Court for Sierra Leone, AFRC Trial, Update 85
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AFRC Trial

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Special Court for Sierra Leone

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Sierra Leone

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English

This week saw the end of this trial session.

The Court will now be in recess until 4 September 2006. The Court only sat half day on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday due to a lack of available defence witnesses. The First Accused also waived his right under Rule 60 and was not present in Court for most of the week. The Court has ordered that the Defence provide a final witness list by 24 August 2006.

Counsel for the First Accused have also filed a notice defence of alibi notice pursuant to Rule 67(A)(ii) this week and have been ordered by the Court to provide any further details regarding the places witnesses can attest to the First Accused being in support of this alibi defence by 7 August 2006.

The Defence has also indicated its military expert report is ready and will be filed shortly. While the Prosecution sought an order that this report be provided by the end of the day on Friday, the Court simply stated that it expected compliance with the 21-day disclosure period set out in Rule 94bis.