LAW & JUSTICE

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Source: http://www.etan.org/ifet/
(added 2nd July 2009)
Letter to UN Security Council on Justice and Accountability
The UN Security Council reviewed the UN Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT) prior to a decision on its renewal. Representatives of 60 organizations signed the letter to urging the Security Council to take concrete action to ensure justice and accountability for crimes committed during the Indonesian occupation.

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Source: http://www.jsmp.minihub.org/English/webpage/publica/ju.htm
(added 2nd July 2009)
Leadership Crisis in the Judicial Organs of TL
Based on monitoring conducted by JSMP, the post of president of the Court of Appeal has been vacant for almost one year, because the incumbent president is receiving medical treatment in Portugal. Noted during that period until now there is a leadership crisis in this judicial body because the authorities have placed all of their hopes on one person who they believe has the capacity to handle the post of president of the Court of Appeal and they think that the other career judges do not yet have the capacity to take on this post, an assumption focusing on their perceived lack of understanding of legal theory, practice and doctrine

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Source: http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/48abdd6932.html
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ATTACKS ON JUSTICE – TIMOR LESTE (EAST TIMOR)
Report conducted by International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) on Timor Leste’s judicial sector, including the legal system and the police service which remains fragile. It continues to be plagued by a lack of competent judicial actors, resources, training and management.

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Source: http://www.jsmp.minihub.org/English/webpage/publica/ju.htm
(added 2nd July 2009)
JUSTICE NOT SERVED BY TRUTH AND FRIENDSHIP COMMISSION
Report conducted by JSMP on a series of interviews on the Truth and Friendship Commission (CTF) with victims and community representatives from several districts.

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Source: http://www.jsmp.minihub.org/index2.htm
(added 2nd July 2009)
Abortion reform still needed: article 141 od East Timor penal code must comply with constitution and international law
The report conducted by JSMP is to examine the existing scope and effect of Article 141 of the national Penal Code (The Code) about abortion which can conduct as a crime, and to make recommendations for its ongoing reform.

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The Court Needs Witness Testimony to Establish the Material Fatcs
In legal discourse a witness is a person who can provide testimony to support the investigation, prosecution and trial a case, based on what the witness heard, saw or experienced, Witness testimony is a piece of evidence in a criminal case in the form of a statement made by a witness about a criminal event that the witness heard, saw or experienced, including justification about that knowledge.

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Digest of the Jurisprudence of the Special Panels for Serious Crimes
In 2000 the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) established a system of criminal laws and institutional structures designed to bring to justice those who had been responsible for the commission of serious crimes in East Timor. The judicial arm of this system is referred as the Special Panels for Serious Crimes (SPSC). This report aims to collate some of the SPSC’s most significant judicial findings and observations.

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Progress to Date in the Cases of Rogerio Lobato and Mari Alkatiri
In recent months much attention has focused on the arrest of former Interior Minister Rogerio Tiago Lobato and the investigations underway by the Timorese Public Prosecution Service into the possible criminal liability of both Lobato and former Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri. However limited information has been available to the public about these cases and there has been significant misinformation published in both the local and international media. In this report, JSMP hopes to clarify the processes that are underway in these cases and to provide some legal commentary on the conduct of the proceedings to date by the Office of the Prosecutor-General and the DIli District Court.

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Restrictive Measure, Pre-Trial Detention, Parole and Suspension of the Execution of a Prison Sentence.
Aiming to clarify a few judicial concepts in order to improve public information, JSMP, Women’s Justice Unit whose main objective is to analyze legal matters, particularly those related to domestic violence and sexual assault, is committed to explain to the public, in simple words, the meaning of this concepts according to Timor-Leste’s laws particularly the Penal Procedural Code.

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Source: http://www.asiafoundation.org/pdf/
Law and Justice in East Timor
A survey of citizen awareness and attitudes regarding law and justice in East Timor. This survey was conducted by The Asia Foundation and USAID.

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