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1 Monday, 16 March 2009
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4 --- Upon commencing at 8.52 a.m.
5 JUDGE ROBINSON: Mr. Alarid, the witnesses?
6 MR. ALARID: Your Honour, Miss -- are we in private session?
7 JUDGE ROBINSON: Private session.
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12 THE REGISTRAR: We are in open session, Your Honours.
13 JUDGE ROBINSON: I was saying, Mr. Alarid, that the transcript
14 will show that the explanation that you have given for the absence of a
15 witness, and it's in the interest of the public that when witnesses are
16 absent and there is no hearing that an explanation be given. In the
17 circumstances, we will adjourn until tomorrow morning at 10 minutes to
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19 It's occurring to me, though, Mr. Alarid, that -- and in the law
20 experience that I've developed here that I might ask you about a reserve,
21 a back-up witness. You ought to have had a planning in place that would
22 have provided for a reserve or a back-up witness in the event that your
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12 JUDGE ROBINSON: Yes. So I was expecting that you'd have a full
13 roster for the rest of the week.
14 MR. ALARID: Your Honour, absent to you allowing us to bring
15 other people from -- where our amendments, my experts are all I have to
16 bring, and we have one person with regards to the passport. But other
17 than that, we're winding up, Your Honour, with the witnesses absent. The
18 subpoenas that were absent until Friday, I mean, had those come a little
19 sooner, we might have been able to secure two of those because they were
20 willing witnesses but needed subpoenas for purposes of their positions.
21 But that was one of the problems with the timing of those decisions, and
22 I think the collateral ex parte matters that had been happening
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24 JUDGE ROBINSON: But you should be able to get some of those
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1 MR. ALARID: 24th.
2 JUDGE ROBINSON: The 24th.
3 MR. ALARID: I hope, so Judge, but we just got your decision
4 Friday, so we didn't have the subpoenas issued until Friday.
5 [Trial Chamber confers]
6 JUDGE ROBINSON: But in the circumstances, we are adjourned until
7 tomorrow morning.
8 --- Whereupon the hearing adjourned at 8.59 a.m.
9 to be reconvened on Tuesday, the 17th day of March,
10 2009, at 8.50 a.m.
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