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on 4 September 2012.^ The Registry provided its observations pursuant to
Regulation 24 bis on 12 September 2012.^
II. Definitional issues
4. The terms "witness preparation", "witness proofing" and "witness familiarisation"
are all used, sometimes interchangeably, throughout the submissions of the parties
and the Victims and Witnesses Unit ("VWU"). In this Decision, the Chamber wdll
use the term "witness preparation" to refer to a meeting between a witness and the
party calling that witness, taking place shortly before the witness's testimony, for
the purpose of discussing matters relating to the witness's testimony. The term
"witness familiarisation" will be used to describe the support provided by the VWU
to witnesses as set out in the Registry's "Unified Protocol on the practices used to
prepare and familiarise witnesses for giving testimony" ("Familiarisation
Protocol").»
III. Submissions
Prosecution Submissions
5. The prosecution seeks a modification of the Familiarisation Protocol that has been
applied by Trial Chambers I, II and III in order to enable the party calling a witness
to meet with the witness in The Hague before he or she is to give evidence.^ The
purpose of the proposed meeting would be to:
i. Re-iterate the witness's obligation to tell the truth;
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^ Joint Defence Response to Prosecution Motion Regarding the Scope of Witness Preparation, ICC-01/09-01/11-452.
^Registrar's Observations pursuant to regulation 24^/^ of the Regulations of the Court on the "Prosecution Motion
Regarding the Scope of Witness Preparation" (ICC-01/09-01/11-446), ICC-01/09-01/11-455.
^ ICC-01/09-01/11-259-Anx.
^ ICC-01/09-01/11-446, para. 5.
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