Appeal turns down a Thaci defence appeal to pre-trial ruling

At the conference for media held Thursday, Greep has provided up-to-date information on recent developments regarding judicial procedures and activities in this court, reports “The Justice Vow”.

Greep has said that in his appeal, Thaci, among other things, commented that in his decision the judge of the preliminary procedure had not taken enough into account that evidence added to the list of SPS material evidence at this late stage would negatively affect the defence capacity to prepare for trial within a reasonable time.

Mr. Thaci stated that the pre-procedure judge had not taken into account that the witness files already analyzed would have to be re-analyzed because the additional material Z added The SP includes witnesses for whom accompanying statements and material evidence” have already been issued, Greep said.

In turn, she said the Appeals Court panel found that Mr. Thaci's arguments had taken into account enough and determined that additional material concerns witnesses who are already known for their defense subsequently for changing the list of material evidence did not necessarily affect or delay preparations for the trial because, among other things, defence has just begun its investigation.

“Paneli noted that the additional material given to the defence on 31 January 2022 under the order of the judge of the preliminary procedure, and that the Prosecution judge warned the SPS that given the adoption of this deadline the additional requirements for changes to the list of material evidence would be submitted to the more detailed”, Greep said.

According to her, in the same court case, the court of preliminary procedure yesterday has held the conference on the performance of the issue, during which the process of extracting materials and other organisational aspects of the process was discussed.

She has said that the judge ordered, among other things, ZPS to hand over the witness list until September 2nd, 2022 with updates on the way to interrogation and presentation time for each witness they will call

Also, he said he proposed September 8th as the date for the upcoming conference on the performance of the issue.

Meanwhile, he said that in line with the Court of Appeals' order, issued on July 1st, Hysni Gucati and Nasim Haradinaj reaffirmed the appeal announcement against the trial.

Otherwise, Kosovo Specialised Chambers in The Hague every Thursday at 14:30, via online platform “Zoom” hold weekly information offering updated information on recent developments regarding judicial procedures and activities in this court.