Your Honours, my recollection of the discussion surrounding this issue that we had on 28 November during the trial management meeting was that it was agreed that the Witness and Victims Support Section staff members would not sit in the courtroom all the time as is the practice in Freetown ...

May it please the Court, the witness is now being brought in and she will be supported by a support staff from the Witness and Victims Section. Thank you.

Yes, your Honour, approximately - well, it was five minutes then. It should be about three minutes more.

Good afternoon, your Honour. The witness is experiencing some difficulties and would like some time to be composed before she can come into court. We've been informed by the Witness and Victim Support Section that she's a little upset and needs to calm down before she can come ...

May it please the Court, your Honour it would require 30 minutes to enable the technical people to set up the voice distortion before the witness can start.

Madam President, 26 is Port Loko.

27.

That would be MFI-27.

Your Honours, before I go if the redaction is going to be done we have five minutes within which to do it.

I think I need help from the booth.

I'm broadcasting the pages that she's referring to so you can follow.

That is the maximum it can go.

Black?

Thank you.

He himself has confirmed with me that he had medical tests run.

Madam President, I would like the record to reflect that the witness by his own testimony had tests run on him. He had his blood taken, but he was not availed the results, according to him, and that could not have happened anywhere else other than in a medical facility ...

Madam President, apparently he will be in in approximately five minutes.

Madam President, the time estimate given to the Registry is quarter to 10.

We are back to open session, your Honour.

Excuse me, your Honour. [Microphone not activated] Excuse me, your Honour. Is it better that maybe we address these issues in a private session?

Your Honour, just for the record, filing stops at 4 o'clock. It can continue up to 5 o'clock, but anything filed after 4 o'clock is served the following day and that being a Friday, it will be served the following Monday, so 4 o'clock and after ...

It will be 4 April, your Honour.

Five seconds, your Honour.

Your Honour, just to let you know of the more complicated technical aspect: The witness's microphones are permanently on and so unless we are going to move the witness from that location to another location --

Thank you.

Excuse me, your Honour, if Ms Hollis forwards the email to me I can print it out for the Court.

Your Honour, I am afraid we are almost going off record.

Excuse me, your Honour. We have been advised by the technical booth that there is need for the co-counsel to pause after every question to allow the interpretation to be completed before the next question and that would ease the problem of overlapping microphones. Thank you.

That is correct, your Honour.

Could the interpreter say something, please. Okay, it is working now.

Yes, there is still nothing. Can you say something a little more, Mr Interpreter. Mr Interpreter, could you say something a little more.

Your Honour, we just waited for the Prosecution to formally tell us which witness he is calling next before we can bring in a witness. Thank you.

Could the witness put the microphone on, please.

Your Honour, the photographer hasn't showed up and we've checked with the Press and Public Affairs Office and we've had no response, so they've probably had a change of mind or heart. Thank you.

Excuse me, your Honours, is it possible to have extra copies for the interpreters, the stenographers and the chambers' legal officers? We agreed on nine copies. Thank you.

Excuse me, your Honour. Could we take back the witness to the waiting room instead of him waiting outside the door?

That is correct, your Honour.

That is affirmative, your Honour.

Your Honour, the Defence team has got one key which is shared amongst them, amongst the entire Defence team, and this key was left at the Binckhorstlaan office, but in the event when the key is missing, normally the practice is to resort to the security control.

Good morning, your Honour. A member of the Defence team was here 15 minutes ago to report that they have been locked out of their office and so they are unable to robe, or pick up their files. We contacted the ICC security office and it is our belief that ...

Your Honours, we will broadcast the portion of the transcript from which the Defence counsel is examining. If you press button PC1, it is on page 829 of the final corrected revised transcript.

Counsel, please could you turn your microphone on.

Good morning, your Honour. The Registry would like to apologise for a slight delay in the arrival of the witness that has been occasioned by a conflict of scheduled travel with the bringing in of the ICC detainee. The roads have been blocked off and the WVS was unable to ...

Your Honour, that wouldn't be a problem but we are reminded that the cafeteria closes quite early so we will have to improvise for lunch, but technically it is possible. Thank you.

Thank you, your Honour. We have been informed by the technicians that we cannot sit between 2.00 and 2.30 for technical reasons, 2.00 to 4.30.

Could everyone move to channel 1 to get the English translations. Could you switch to channel 1 please. Channel 1 on the microphones.

Your Honour, the witness waiting rooms are located two floors from the court and it is the only possible place where the witnesses can wait, so it takes a while to go down the stairs and pick up the witness. That is the cause of the delay, thank you.

Your Honour, could the witness please slow down for interpretation and transcribing? It is becoming difficult to do that. Thank you.

The technician will come in and assist counsel. Thank you.

Your Honour, the reason your Honours do not have LiveNote is because they haven't been configured. We are hoping it can be done during the break