Trial Monitoring

Special Court for Sierra Leone, CDF Trial, Update 65

January 20, 2006
Author(s)
Alison Thompson
Special Court for Sierra Leone, CDF Trial, Update 65
Publication Documents
Case or Series

CDF Trial

Case or Series

Special Court for Sierra Leone

Country

Sierra Leone

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English

This week’s proceedings, which began on Wednesday after a two day delay, marked both the resumption of the court after its winter recess as well as the continuation of the CDF trial and the opening of the defence case. Wednesday’s session consisted of the status conference, which dealt with a number of issues relating to courtroom management. On Thursday opening statements were made by the Fofana and Kondewa defence teams, although not by the Norman team as Norman himself had exercised this right earlier in the trial. A recess was ordered by Trial Chamber I until January 24th , 2006 following a request made by the Norman defence team for more time to prepare evidence in collaboration with the defendant.