Kosovo Special War Crimes Court Adopts Rulebook (Balkan Insight)
The Hague-based Kosovo Specialist Chambers, set up to try former Kosovo Liberation Army members for wartime and post-war crimes, could now be judicially operational in May.
Two months after its judges were appointed, the Kosovo Specialist Chambers adopted its Rules of Procedure and Evidence, it said in a statement on Tuesday - a move that could mean that the new court is judicially operational in fewer than two months.
The procedure and evidence rules are aimed at “enhancing the fairness, expeditiousness, efficiency, integrity and security of the proceedings before the Specialist Chambers, while complying with the Constitution [of Kosovo] and the highest human rights standards”, the statement said.