Übersetzung für "witness for the defence " (Englisch → Deutsch) :

3. Without prejudice to the rights referred to in this Chapter, suspects and accused persons as well as other persons involved in the proceedings of the EPPO shall have all the procedural rights available to them under the applicable national law, including the possibility to present evidence, to request the appointment of experts or expert examination and hearing of witnesses, and to request the EPPO to obtain such measures on behalf of the defence.

Any suspect or accused person in respect of whom the EPPO initiates an investigation should benefit from those rights, as well as from the rights provided for in national law to request that experts are appointed or that witnesses are heard, or that evidence on behalf of the defence is otherwise produced by the EPPO.

C. whereas the controversial trial failed to meet national and international standards of justice, notwithstanding the call of the United Nations for fairness and transparency in the legal proceedings against former president Nasheed: he was manhandled outside the courtroom and was frequently denied legal representation, the court refused to hear evidence from his own defence witnesses, his legal team was denied adequate time to build a defence against the charges, and the criminal court refus ...[+++]es to release the case report to his defence team, necessary for them to lodge the appeal;

While bringing added protection to suspects, victims, witnesses and vulnerable persons, it should be ensured that videoconferencing is not detrimental to the defence’s rights; special care must be taken to ensure the principles of immediacy, equality of arms and contradiction are respected.

Articles 25 to 30 of the Statute relate to the taking of evidence by witnesses and expert opinions, and should apply to the Community Patent Court: Article 25 (court's choice of expert), Article 26 (hearing of witnesses), Article 27 (powers with respect to defaulting witnesses), Article 28 (oath of witnesses and experts), Article 29 (hearing of witness or expert by judicial authority of residence), Article 30 (violation of oath).

4. Firmly believes that a common minimum standard relating to procedural safeguards of suspects and defendants in criminal proceedings throughout the European Union will ensure that any individual present within the territory of a Member State (irrespective of his or her nationality and situation) is entitled to assistance from and representation by a lawyer and/or, where appropriate, a procurator (a professional practitioner who, in Spain, France and Portugal represents a party before the courts), from the moment when, as a suspect of complicity in crime, he or she is placed under arrest, taken into custody or charged with an offence by ...[+++] a public authority appropriately empowered to do so, and that such assistance or representation is provided free of charge if the suspect or defendant has insufficient means to pay for it and the provision of such services is required in the interests of justice; the technical defence of suspects and defendants shall be compulsory and indefeasible at every stage and level of criminal proceedings; considers that the right to legal assistance should embrace, at every stage and all tiers of the proceedings, the complete confidentiality of contacts between the defence lawyer and the suspect or defendant, the presence of the defence lawyer each time the suspect or defendant is questioned and his right to put questions both to the suspect or defendant and to any witnesses, and the right of the defence lawyer to submit evidence in exoneration;