My Lord, on the witness' own evidence it was dark and misty.

The court will rule on what is proper evidence, Mr. Juror.

And you'll testify to that in court?

I don't intend making this sort of plea to the courtmartial.

have presented themselves to you gentlemen, to this court... in the cynical confidence... that their testimony would not be doubted.

At the time of the retrial, Detective Ashman had died, and his deposition was admitted as evidence.

The burden of proof lies upon the people.

I can swear to it, in or out of court, in the witness box, anywhere!

A summary of the defendants statements that they had been tortured or ill treated was read into the record by the presiding judge.

My Lord, I will dispose of the evidence of this gentleman, with the brevity it merits.

During the seventeenth and eighteenth sessions, the plenary of the Tribunal and the Committee on Rules and Judicial Practice examined the provisions in the Rules regarding evidence before the Tribunal including, in particular, the Tribunal's practice regarding documents submitted after the closure of the written proceedings, witness and expert testimony, and the Tribunal's function in obtaining evidence.

7.5 Concerning the alleged violation of article 14, paragraph 1, of the Covenant, because of the trial judge apos s failure to prevent police officers in the court room from influencing the testimony of a policewoman who testified for the defence, the State party notes that quot there is no indication other than the author apos s assertion that policemen in court persuaded the policewoman to change her testimony.

In the opinion of the Tribunal, there may also be requirements for ancillary services, such as transcriptions of testimony.

Prior to its recess in December 2004, the Court heard the testimonies of 18 witnesses against RUF and 31 witnesses against CDF.

But we'll have our say in court though.

If you have already committed perjury in this courtroom,

On the contradicting versions of the facts and testimonies of witnesses of the prosecution and the defence, the Court ruled that the issue of credibility of witnesses was an issue under the competence of the trial court.

My dear Mrs Vole, in our courts we accept the evidence of witnesses who speak only Bulgarian and who must have an interpreter.

We have a notarized affidavit... from the bailiff of Judge Moulton's court... that the judge felt that Wiecek did not receive a fair trial.

The Committee further recalls that considerable weight was given to that witness' out of court statement.

The evidence of the brother, however, was judged to be unreliable and the jury was instructed to disregard it.

You got some new evidence, something that wasn't brought up at the trial?

The hearing is closed. The court will now retire to deliberate.

105. The terms under which perjury could be committed before the court needed examination to encourage the widest possible opportunity for witnesses to make statements to the court, witnesses should not be held responsible for perjury if statements had been taken in situations far removed from the court.

Members of the jury, by the oath which you have just taken, you have sworn to try this case on the evidence.

The second defence witness, a policewoman who had been in the area in relation to a domestic dispute, testified at first that she had seen the author in Love Lane immediately before the power failure the author claims that, upon indications by police officers present in the court room, she changed her testimony and told the Court that the last time she had seen the author had been around 5 45 p.m., well before the moment of the power failure.

The Party concerned may present expert testimony or opinion at the hearing.

It argues that the author's defence that he was framed was not considered credible by the Trial Court and the Court of Appeal, in view of the overwhelming evidence obtained through the testimonies of the police officers who caught the author in the hotel room with the alleged victim, and the testimonies of the social workers, public prosecutor and doctor who interviewed him after the author's arrest.

At a hearing in the court of appeal at the end of May 1998, the case was postponed on the grounds that witnesses for the defence had failed to appear.

Moreover, witnesses are reportedly not allowed to give evidence in court.

He submitted that there was no ambiguity because the words further evidence referred to the word proven rather than to the word method .

And anyway its no proof that would stand up in court.

Such cases were often difficult to prove beyond a reasonable doubt in court.

On the contrary, the various forms of law in the Gambia denied women equal rights with respect to marriage, divorce and inheritance for example, under sharia law the testimony of one man was equal to that of two women before the cadi courts, while under customary law a widow could be considered part of her husband's estate.

The United Nations observer was not in court on the day of their appearance, nor has the observer been able to review the many documents referred to in court on that day.

At present, witnesses from Rwanda are appearing before the ICTR.

But don't worry, I don't think you will find anything I have to say or do will be helpful.

2.4 The author apos s testimony was rejected by the Court on the basis of the entries in the police register, which showed, inter alia, that the author was arrested late in the evening of 5 February 1980.

22. Testimony should be taken from witnesses and victims only on a voluntary basis.

Suppose you were on the Supreme Court.

In court.

The importance of expert testimony could be seen in the fact that the judge had indeed listened to the testimony of the expert proposed by the defendant and assigned decisive weight to it in his judgement.

I dragged Fabienne's testimony out of her.

That view has been corroborated, in several respects, by evidence and testimony received since October 2005.

According to the State party this proposition was not supported by any evidence during the court hearings and in fact, the evidence was to the contrary.