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Participants mentioned the pervasiveness of digital media in terrorist investigations, the burden that transcription and translation have on the prosecution and the need for training of law enforcement and judges in this field.

[...] also assisted with the transcription of audio recordings and provided language assistance in many forms [...] [...]

Digital records are proposed to complement the one-language written summary records or unedited transcripts.

The libraries of Timbuktu contain many important manuscripts, in different styles of Arabic scripts, which were written and copied by Timbuktu’s scribes and scholars.

Once the public transcript has been prepared, the audio-visual record will also have to be modified to comply with the new public version of the transcript.

The Judicial and Legal Services Division continues to provide: (a) direct judicial assistance to the Trial Chambers and the Appeals Chamber, such as, legal research, drafting and other judicial support; the preparation of the judicial calendar; the maintenance and scheduling of courtrooms; and the recording, maintenance and registration of records of judicial proceedings, transcripts, motions, orders, decisions, judgements and sentences; and (b) other court-related functions, including the provision and maintenance of the detention facilities; the development and maintenance of a list of defence counsel; the establishment and maintenance of a system to remunerate defence counsel; interpretation and translation services; assistance to prosecution and defence witnesses testifying before the Tribunal; and legal library services.

In Vienna, the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space was developing an alternative delivery method for its meeting records, which would consist of digital sound files supplemented, where available, with uploaded reference materials such as written statements and/or an English transcript of the meeting.

The Registry will also be engaged in the transfer of know-how and in other capacity-building activities in the region of the former Yugoslavia, including by training domestic judicial and prosecutorial training professionals (“training the trainers”), working with partners to produce transcripts of the Tribunal’s hearings in the local languages and improving access by national legal professionals to the Tribunal’s records and archives.

He has heard of the project of producing transcripts in BCS and stressed that it shows that no one at the Tribunal cares about the Albanian population of Kosovo of which 90% of the younger generation does not understand Serbian.

Speedy dissemination of voluminous documentary evidence is the cornerstone of the system, but other advantages of e-Court include the ability of the parties to annotate their transcripts for future use; the ability to annotate exhibits during a witness’s testimony; quick access to information using the advanced searches and reports function; and remote access to trial records.

(d) Written records of meetings: provision of unedited transcripts for the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space in lieu of verbatim records;3 provision of summary records for the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law and UNIDO.

The Tribunal is directly implementing project elements worth €1.2 million, including the production of selected transcripts and the translation of its Appeals Chamber Case Law Research Tool into Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian.

Following the recommendation of several participants at the Conference to provide the same amount of support to Kosovo as that given to Serbia, Croatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Tribunal has approached potential donors with a proposal for the production of transcripts in Albanian for relevant cases.

[...] [...] a full study and two technical [...] [...]

The Coordinating Committee also agreed that these experimental sessions should be based on certain key principles, including: that participation would be on a voluntary basis, particularly as concerns States Parties that would be the subject of a national focus; that the overarching purpose of each session would be to seek cooperative means to support implementation; and, that there would be no report produced attributing views to any participant or revealing participants’ affiliations.

In this regard, the Council requested the Chairperson of the Working Group to prepare a proposal for a draft optional protocol to be used as a basis for the negotiations, taking into account the views expressed and inputs provided during the first session of the Working Group and giving due regard to the views of the Committee on the Rights of the Child and, where appropriate, the views of relevant United Nations special procedures and other experts.

While expressing their satisfaction that the new programme management cycle now allows not only a top-down but also a bottom-up interaction which is expected to give a more important role to field offices and National Commissions in the design of the next programmes and budgets, participants unanimously stressed that cluster and regional consultations for the purpose of the preparation of the C/5 document or for any issue considered to be part and parcel of UNESCO’s core business shall not be funded from the Participation Programme but from other sources under the regular programme (see resolution adopted by the Consultation which is attached as Annex III).

For example, in regard to the three multiple-accused cases that will be under way in 2012-2013, it is expected that the Appeals Chamber will be reviewing more than 115,462 pages of transcript and 19,641 exhibits and filings, including briefs, etc.

[...] had been prepared in order [...] [...]

(b) Judicial transcripts, motions, orders, decisions, judgements and sentences; assistance to prosecution and defence witnesses testifying before the Tribunal; research papers, judicial calendars, schedules of courtrooms usage; and other judicial records

Transcript coordinators will have to revert to the original transcript to prepare and make available a revised public version of the transcript, identifying the new portions of the record that can be disclosed and making the necessary revisions.

While, generally, this strategy has saved time in completing firstinstance trials, the volume of materials involved in such multiple-accused cases, including evidence, transcripts, briefs and submissions, represents a dramatic increase in the workload of the Appeals Chamber as these cases reach it.

[...] gathering, transcription/translation [...] [...]

Over 60,000 pages of transcripts have been completed, much of the Appeals Chamber Case Law Research Tool has been translated and uploaded on to the Tribunal’s website, and 157 legal professionals from regional judiciaries have received training on searching and accessing publicly available Tribunal materials.