\nArusha, 29 June 2009 (FH) - The Appeal Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) cancelled two decisions which inflicted a total fine of of 5, 500 dollars to a Canadian lawyer, Allison Turner.\n<\/p>\n
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\nThe sum had been taken by the registry from Turner's honoraries.\n<\/p>\n
\nThe lawyer had been sanctioned in March for her attitude considered insulting the Chamber presided by Pakistani Judge Khalida Khan. The first to be subjected for such sanctions before ICTR, Turner had appealed.\n<\/p>\n
\nIn a ruling rendered last Friday, the Appeal Chamber concluded that the first judges exceeded their discretionary power by imposing ‘'pecuniary sanctions''.\n<\/p>\n
\nThe ruling also ordered the registry to reimburse the lawyer the amount deducted from her honoraries.\n<\/p>\n
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\nTurner is a lead defence counsel for Rwandan lawyer, Léonidas Nshogoza, accused by a witness of having tried to bribe him in the trial of a former Rwandan Education and Culture Minister Jean de Dieu Kamuhanda, who was sentenced to life in prison in September 2005. Nshogoza was by then an investigator in the defence team of Kamuhanda.\n<\/p>\n
\nThe judgment is expected to be rendered Thursday.\n<\/p>\n
\nThe Canadian lawyer had protested in writing and even before the judges against a decision of the Chamber to reduce the number of Nshogoza's witnesses. The decision delayed the proceedings.\n<\/p>\n
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\nWhereas the prosecutor had called only 5 witnesses, the opposing party had for its part, planned, initially, to call forty.\n<\/p>\n
\nBut the Chamber, using its discretionary power, had ordered her, in a judgment dated 23 February, to file a list of 10 witnesses maximum.\n<\/p>\n
\nThe lawyer had trailed her feet, an attitude which had been regarded by the Chamber as "an obvious contempt of court".\n<\/p>\n
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