Trial Chamber definition
Examples of Trial Chamber in a sentence
If, at the request of the President of the Special Court, an alternate judge or judges have been appointed by the Government of Sierra Leone or the Secretary-General, the presiding judge of a Trial Chamber or the Appeals Chamber shall designate such an alternate judge to be present at each stage of the trial and to replace a judge if that judge is unable to continue sitting.
In the initial phase, judges of the Trial Chamber and the Appeals Chamber shall be convened on an ad hoc basis for dealing with organizational matters, and serving when required to perform their duties.
Judges of the Trial Chamber shall take permanent office shortly before the investigation process has been completed.
The Special Court shall be composed of a Trial Chamber and an Appeals Chamber with a second Trial Chamber to be created if, after the passage of at least six months from the commencement of the functioning of the Special Court, the Secretary-General, or the President of the Special Court so request.
The Appeals Chamber may affirm, reverse or revise the decisions taken by the Trial Chamber.
In imposing the sentences, the Trial Chamber should take into account such factors as the gravity of the offence and the individual circumstances of the convicted person.
The judgement shall be rendered by a majority of the judges of the Trial Chamber or of the Appeals Chamber, and shall be delivered in public.
The Trial Chamber and Appeals Chamber reached the same decisions for similar reasons in Hategekimana, Gatete and Kayishema.
The Appeals Chamber shall hear appeals from persons convicted by the Trial Chamber or from the Prosecutor on the following grounds: A procedural error; An error on a question of law invalidating the decision; An error of fact which has occasioned a miscarriage of justice.
The ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ shall be composed of not less than eight (8) or more than eleven (11) independent judges, who shall serve as follows: Three judges shall serve in the Trial Chamber, of whom one shall be a judge appointed by the Government of Sierra Leone, and two judges appointed by the Secretary-General of the United Nations (hereinafter "the Secretary-General").