Defence Counsel and Detention Management Section

Prosecution and Defence counsel come from all over the world, and have different court room styles.

Prosecution and Defence counsel come from all over the world, and have different court room styles.

1968 1977 50 to 100 cases as counsel for the defence, mostly as legal aid counsel, before military tribunals occasionally ad hoc judge in military tribunals.

Also, the Committee notes that the trial lump sum defence counsel payment system was a significant step in ensuring efficient trial strategy preparation by the defence.

(e) 3,380,700 for contractual services under the Registry, mainly for expenditure related to increased defence counsel fees

The insistence by the Trial Chambers on having two Defence counsel and, in the event of illness or absence of one counsel, requiring the remaining counsel to continue, will reduce the occurrence of interruptions of trials.

In the Seromba trial, which commenced on 20 September 2004, there was a need to replace defence counsel.

The questions that the defence counsel intended to put were related to the subject matter of the testimony.

The Office of Public Counsel for Defence will support counsel and accused, including through the representation and protection of rights of the accused during the initial stages of an investigation.

The State party indicates that the record was signed by counsel for the defence, without his raising any objection.

Currently, reform efforts are hampered by an acute lack of facilities, material resources, funding and qualified prosecutors and defence counsel.

Comment by the Administration. Strict management and control of the legal aid system has led to strikes by defence counsel.

Recommendations were also made to the Registry with regard to the appointment of Defence Counsel at trial, in order to avoid problems of delay resulting from a change of Counsel on appeal.

8. Requests the Tribunal to continue to enhance its engagement with the defence counsel establishment in the facilitation of trial work

A frequent situation in practice is that Prosecution or Defence counsel requires additional time to prepare witnesses for examination in chief.

2002 2004 Training seminars for Judges, Prosecutors and Defence Counsel on international humanitarian legal issues in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina

According to the authors, the fact that the provincial court concluded that the questions which their defence counsel proposed to put to the defence experts were superfluous means that the court acknowledged that there had been no equality in the questioning of the defence experts.

He was not informed about his right to obtain counsel and did not have an opportunity to choose a defence attorney for himself.

Besides his academic work, practical experience as a defence counsel in Austria and Turkey as well as before the European Court of Human Rights.

According to information received, detainees have little or no access to legal counsel or the means by which they might prepare their own defence.

(e) A monitoring disciplinary mechanism required to handle possible disciplinary proceedings that may arise against defence counsel after the end of the Tribunals' mandate.

On the contrary, if the accused refused to call on the services of a defence lawyer, the State provided counsel and paid the resulting fees.

Talks are also underway between the Registry, Prosecution and Association of Defence Counsel to devise ways to ensure these trials run as smoothly as possible.

2.6 Before the Supreme Court, the author's defence counsel stated that the Court of Appeal had not responded to his defence that the records of the telephone conversations with his lawyer had been illegally obtained without having subsequently been destroyed.

Defence counsel have to leave their other case work for considerable periods to spend time working at the ICTR in Arusha, usually away from their practices.

Defence counsel have to leave their other case work for considerable periods to spend time working at the ICTR in Arusha, usually away from their practices.

The defence case, which was originally scheduled for 12 January 2005, had to be adjourned following the withdrawal of an assigned lead counsel by the Registrar.

Nature of work I was involved in handling a lot of cases as plaintiff or defence counsel, but in most cases criminal matters from June November 1984

Of particular note during the reporting period has been the increase in cooperation and communication between the organs of the Tribunal and the Association of Defence Counsel.

The representative discussed the challenge to British sovereignty presented by the defence counsel in the Pitcairn Supreme Court, in which counsel had argued that Pitcairn was independent and not subject to British law, and provided a summary of the 66 page judgement.

The regulations provided for the strict round the clock availability of defence lawyers, which addressed the concern expressed by the Special Rapporteur about the need for independent counsel and the practice of having defence lawyers work hand in hand with the prosecution.

On 16 October 2000 the Constitutional Court rejected the appeal. The Court found that the authors had not sufficiently demonstrated that questioning the experts was essential to their defence, since defence counsel had not prepared in writing the clarifications and observations sought.

The judge listened to the prosecution experts for more than an hour, but, when the turn of the defence experts came, he merely allowed them to endorse their reports, and denied the defendants' counsel the right to freely question the defence experts.

(d) The introduction of a lump sum payment system for defence counsel for all pre trial activities as an alternative to the fixed hourly system currently in place.

No arrest warrant was issued and no charges have been brought against him he has not been allowed an independent public judicial process, with access to defence counsel.

According to the JFBA, The Japanese Criminal Justice System doesn't adequately provide the right to counsel and the right to defence and fails to meet international human rights standards .

(d) Proposals for defence costs should take into account experience to date in the revised lump sum remuneration arrangements for defence counsel and the application of assessing contributions from defendants based on ability to pay and taking into account revised definitions of indigence and partial indigence

According to the source, during the defence preparatory stage the documents presented as evidence by the Government side were identified with a specific code, which was changed in an arbitrary manner a few days before the start of the trial, damaging the work of defence counsel.

A child is no longer allowed to be detained in the same lock up as adults and must be granted the right of a defence counsel and interpreter once detained.

He stated that the complainant's defence counsel was only provided with copies of parts of the criminal investigation that had been conducted, despite a request to photocopy the investigation records.

A pilot project at the Tribunal headquarters for the electronic provision of documents to the Trial Chambers and to defence counsel has been successfully tested and is now in its implementation phase.

Vice Ministry of Defence (Ministry of Defence)

With regard to question 21, he said that during court proceedings both the prosecutor and defence counsel had equal rights to see all evidence, a principle which was strictly applied by the courts.

2.5 On appeal, the author's defence counsel argued that not all records of the tapped telephone calls, which should have been destroyed pursuant to section 125h, paragraph 2, had in fact been destroyed.