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External sources (not reviewed)

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

(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.

As part of its role in the capacity-building and outreach activities of the Tribunal, the Section continued to conduct training sessions for representatives of a number of African countries, including demonstrations of the Tribunal’s system for the instantaneous production of transcripts and the management of judicial records.

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.

(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

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.

The Act provides, at section 9, for access to be given in the form specified by an applicant, and listed options include an opportunity to inspect the document or to listen to or view it; a copy of the document, duly authenticated (for example with the official stamp of the public body); or a transcript of the words contained in sounds, images or codified documents.

In response, I informed them of the Tribunal’s current project in partnership with ODIHR aimed at producing BCS versions of around 20% of transcripts, with priority being given to those relevant to domestic proceedings in the Region.

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