A long way from home: Witnesses before international criminal tribunals

International Commentary on Evidence

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Cryer, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cultural and linguistic differences; International criminal tribunals; Witnesses

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247613160     PISSN: 15544567     EISSN: 15544567     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. The exception is the Special Court for Sierra Leone.
2. Prosecutor v. Bradjanin and Talić, Judgment, IT-99-36-T. 1 September 2004, para 25.
3. Prosecutor v. Akayesu, Judgment, ICTR-94-6-T, 2 September 1998, para. 156.
4. Prosecutor v. Musema, Judgment, ICTR-96-5-T, 27 January 2000, paras. 103-105.
5. See J.C. Yuille, D. Marzsen and B. Cooper, "Training Investigative Interviewers: Adherence to the Spirit, As Well as the Letter", (1999) 22 International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 323, 330-331.
6. Akayesu, above note 3, para. 145.
7. Prosecutor v. Musema, Judgment, ICTR-96-5-T, 27 January 2000, para. 102.
8. Id.
9. Prosecutor v. Rutaganda, Judgment, ICTR-96-3-T, 6 December 1999, para. 23.
10. E. Loftus, Eyewitness Testimony (Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1979), 78, 94-95.
11. See J. Levinger, "Language War-War Language", (1994) 16 Language Sciences 229.
12. Akayesu, above note 3, paras. 152-154.
13. On appeal on this, the Appeals Chamber described the Trial Chamber as "well informed and vigilant about the problems of translation". Prosecutor v Akayesu, Judgment,IT-94-6-A, 1 June 2001 paras 208-212.