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Purpose of final trial brief

Notion(s)	Filing	Case
Briefs and/or Motions \| Purpose of final trial brief	Judgement (volume I) - 29.11.2017	PRLIĆ et al. (IT-04-74)
59. [T]he Appeals Chamber is of the view that the primary purpose of requiring the parties to file a final trial brief is to benefit a trial chamber as such briefs will set out the parties’ factual and legal arguments.^{^[1]} Notably, the ICTR Appeals Chamber in Semanza stated that the purpose of a final trial brief is for each party “to express its own position regarding the charges set out in the indictment and the evidence led in the case”.^{^[2]} show footnotes [1] See International Criminal Procedure: Principles and Rules, Göran Sluiter, Håkan Friman, Suzannah Linton, Sergey Vasiliev, Salvatore Zappalà, OUP Oxford, 21 March 2013, pp. 675, 679. See also International Criminal Trials: A Normative Theory, Vasiliev, S. (2014), p. 830. [2] Semanza Appeal Judgement, para. 36. […]. Download full document