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Page 1: JUSTICE BASE - Progressive Voice...Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal 5 (2000), at pg. 25. 14 Nick Cheesman “Thin Rule of Law or Un-Rule of Law in Myanmar?”(2010) 82(4) Pacific

JUSTICE BASE

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Endland and Wales at A

Charity Number 1153878

Email- infojusticebaseorg wwwjusticebaseorg

၂၅ ၂၀၁၇

Open Society Foundations

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7

၂-၃ 11

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31

33

i

Justice Base

Justice Base

Justice Base

Justice Base

Open Society Foundation

Peace and Disarmament Education Trust

၄ ႔

႔ Justice Base

ii

၂၀၁၅ ႔ (NLD)

1 NLD

႔ ၄

2

႔ (၂၀၀၈) (၂၀၀၈ ႔ )

၂၀၁၆

Justice Base

႔ ႔

ldquoMyanmarrsquos General Election A New Erardquo (12 November 2015) The Economist

ltwwweconomistcomgt

Nick Cheesman ldquoOpposing the Rule of Law How Myanmarrsquos Courts Make Law and Orderrdquo

(Cambridge University Press United Kingdom 2015) at 117-118

iii

(၁)

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၄ ႔

(၃) Justice Base

iv

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Justice Base

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၁ ၃၆ ၆ ႔ ႔ ၁၆ ႔

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vi

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Justice Base

၁ ႔

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၃ ႔

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vii

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1

(၁)

၁-၁

1

2

3

၁ 4

5

6

7

၁ 8

1 ( ) (၆) 2 ၁၆

၉ ( ) 3

( ) ၁ ၁ -

4 ( ) ၁ ၆

5 ၉ ၉ 6 ၁၉ 7 8 ၁ httpwwwunionsupremecourtgovmm

2

၁-

9

rdquo 10 International Commission of

Jurists 11

9 (၁) ၁၁( ) ၁၉( ) 10 Yanghee Lee ldquoReport of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in

Myanmarrdquo (18 March 2016) AHRC3171 at 15 11 International Commission of Jurists ldquoRe Implementable Action Plans from the ICJ to the

new Parliament amp Governmentrdquo (3 May 2016) lthttpswwwicjorgwp-

contentuploads201606Myanmar-Recommendation-to-NLD-Gvt-Advocacy-Analysis-Brief-

2016-ENGpdfgt at 5-6 See also International Commission of Jurists ldquoMyanmar Country

Profile prepared by the ICJ Centre for the Independence of Judges and Lawyersrdquo (2014)

High Court (Region or State)

District Courts

Other Courts Constituted by Law (eg Juvenile

Courts)

Courts of Self-Administered Zones

Township Courts

Courts of Self-Administered Divisions

3

၁၉၆

rdquo12

၁၉

၁၉

rdquo 13

၁၉

rdquo 14

rdquo

rdquo 15

rdquo 16

lthttpswwwicjorgwp-contentuploads201406CIJL-Country-Profile-Myanmar-June-

2014pdfgt 12 Myint Zan ldquoJudicial Independence in Burma No March Backwards Towards the Pastrdquo 1

Asian-Pacific Law amp Policy Journal 5 (2000) at pg 13 13 Id at 25

Asian-Pacific Law amp Policy Journal 5 (2000) at pg 25 14 Nick Cheesman ldquoThin Rule of Law or Un-Rule of Law in Myanmarrdquo (2010) 82(4) Pacific Affairs 597 at 612 15 Cheesman above n 2 at 161ndash162 16 International Commission of Jurists ldquoMyanmar Country Profile prepared by the ICJ Centre

4

17

18

19

20

21

for the Independence of Judges and Lawyersrdquo above n 14 at 11 See also Khaing Sape Saw

ldquoTackling Myanmar‟s Corruption Challengerdquo (April 2015) 13 Focus Asia Perspectives and

Analysis 1 17 Lee above n 13 at 15 International Bar Association‟s Human Rights Initiative ldquoThe Rule of

Law in Myanmar Challenges and Prospectsrdquo (International Bar Association London

December 2012) 18 See International Commission of Jurists ldquoRight to Counsel The Independence of Lawyers in

Myanmarrdquo (2013)ltwwwicjorggt at 31 DLA Piper New Perimeter ldquoMyanmar Rule of Law

Assessmentrdquo (March 2013) ltwwwnewperimetercomgt at 36 19 See International Commission of Jurists ldquoRight to Counsel The Independence of Lawyers in

Myanmarrdquo above n 20 Melissa Crouch ldquoRediscovering bdquoLaw‟ in Myanmarrdquo (2014) 23 Pac

Rim L amp Pol‟y J 543 at 545-46 20 Lee above n 13 at 15 21

၁( ) ၁ ( )( ) ( )( )

5

22

23

24

( )

-၁

22 The distinction between substantive law reform and advocacy for formal legality in the

context of ldquocause lawyeringrdquo in Myanmar is drawn in Nick Cheesman and Kyaw Min San

ldquoNot Just Defending Advocating for Law in Myanmarrdquo (2014) 31 Wis Int‟l L J 702 at 704ndash

705 23 See for instance the All Burma Federation of Student Unions‟ boycott of the ldquofailedrdquo court

system ldquoStudents to boycott failed judicial systemrdquo (March 15 2016) Asian Human Rights

Commission Press Release AHRC-STM-033-2016

lthttpwwwahrchkorgruleoflawasianetnewsphpid=AHRC-STM-033-2016gt See also

International Commission of Jurists above n 20 at 14-15 Justice Base ldquoVoices from the

Intersection Women‟s Access to Justice in the Plural Legal System of Myanmarrdquo (2016)

ltwwwjusticebaseorggt at 9 54 and 81 This problem is recognised by Myanmar‟s

government see ldquoMoving Forward to the Rule of Law Strategic Plan 2015ndash2019rdquo (Union

Attorney General‟s Office Nay Pyi Taw 2015) at 11 24 Jeremy Lever ldquoWhy Procedure is More Important than Substantive Lawrdquo 48 Int‟l amp Comp

LQ 285 (1999) at 300 discussing Tom Tyler Who Do People Obey the Law (Yale University

Press New Haven 1990)

6

rdquo 25 (

)

26

27

28

25

Ola Johan Settem ldquoApplications of the bdquoFair Hearing‟ Norm in ECHR Article 6(1) to Civil

Proceedingsrdquo (Springer New York 2016) at 120 See also Human Rights Committee General

Comment No 32 CCPRCGC32 (23 August 2007) at para 28 26 M Cherif Bassiouni ldquoHuman Rights in the Context of Criminal Justice Identifying

International Procedural Protections and Equivalent Protections in National Constitutionsrdquo

(1992ndash1993) 3 Duke J Comp Int‟l L 235 at 274 Anthony C Epstein ldquoOpen Courts Closed

Trialsrdquo (1986) 13 Litigation 23 at 24 27

( )

28 Bassiouni above n 28 at 274

7

rdquo29 30 31

-

၁၉( ) rdquo

၁ ( )

29 Sarosh Zaiwalla ldquoSecret courts justice conducted behind closed doors is no justice at allrdquo (19

August 2013) The Guardian ltwwwtheguardiancomgt 30 Tom Bingham ldquoThe Rule of Lawrdquo (Penguin London 2011) at 96-97 31

ldquodemocracies die behind closed doorsrdquo

see Detroit Free Press v Ashcroft 03 F3d 681 (6th Cir 2002) per Keith J

8

၁ ၉ -

(၁)

rdquo

( )

rdquo

၁၉( )

9

(

)

32

33

34

၁၉၉ ( )

၁၆ ၁၆

Burma Official

Secrets Act 1923 ၁

35

32 See Human Rights Committee n 27 at para 29 UN Commission on Human Rights rdquoThe

Siracusa Principles on the Limitation and Derogation Provisions in the International Covenant

on Civil and Political Rightsrdquo ECN419854 (28 September 1984) para 38(a) 33 Stefan Trechsel ldquoThe Significance of International Human Rights for Criminal Procedurerdquo

(2011) 6 Nat‟l Taiwan Univ Law Rev 1 at 191 (witness reprisal) Mole Nuala and Harby

ldquoThe Right to a Fair Trial A guide to the implementation of Article 6 of the European

Convention on Human Rightsrdquo (2006) at 22 34 UN Commission on Human Rights rdquoThe Siracusa Principles on the Limitation and

Derogation Provisions in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rightsrdquo above n

35 para 38(a) 35 ၁

10

36

37

Justice Base

Justice Base

38

36 ( ) 37

( ၁ ) wwwunionsupremecourtgovmm rdquo ( ) - ၁

38 Human Rights

Committee n 27 at para 29 (ldquo rdquo)

11

၁ - ၁

rdquo

rdquo 39

-

( UDHRrdquo)

40

(International Covenant on Civil and

P R g ( PR))

41

39 Eleven ldquoJudicial process must be independent and transparent says Chief justicerdquo ( ၉ ၁ ) httpwwwelevenmyanmarcomlocaljudicial-process-must-be-independent-and-

transparent-says-chief-justice 40 Universal Declaration of Human Rights GA Res 217A (III) (10 December 1948) art 10 41 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 999 UNTS 171 (opened for signature 16

December 1966 entered into force 23 March 1976) art 14

12

42

(H R g ) PR

rdquo

( )

43

44

PR

42 UN Commission on Human Rights rdquoThe Siracusa Principles on the Limitation and

Derogation Provisions in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rightsrdquo above n

35 para 38(a) 43 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at paras 3 16 and 28 44 At para 29

13

45

UDHR PR UDHR

46 UDHR 47

PR 48

49 UDHR

(UDHR

) UDHR

50

UDHR

ICCPR

51

45 At para 28 46 See ldquoYearbook of the United Nations 1948ndash1949rdquo The Yearbook of the United Nations

ltunyearbookunorggt at 535 47 Malcolm N Shaw International Law (7th ed Cambridge University Press Cambridge 2014)

at 279 48 Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review Myanmar AHRC3113 (23

December 015) at [1434] reaffirming the commitment expressed during the previous

Universal Periodic Review Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review

Myanmar AHRC179 (24 March 2011) at [1046] ( ) see AHRC3113 (23 December 2015) at [14348]

49 See United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner ldquoStatus of Ratificationrdquo

lthttpindicatorsohchrorggt 50 ldquo rdquo Restat 3d of the Foreign Relations Law of the US (1987) at sect

102(2) and (3) 51 Patrick Robinson ldquoThe Right to a Fair Trial in International Law with Specific Reference to

the Work of the ICTYrdquo (2009) 3 Berk J Intl L Publicist 1 at 5 See also Yvonne McDermott

ldquoThe Right to a Fair Trial in International Criminal Lawrdquo (PhD thesis National University of

Ireland Galway July 2013) at 17 and in a related context see ldquoCustomary International

Humanitarian Law Databaserdquo International Committee of the Red Cross lthttpsihl-

databasesicrcorgcustomary-ihlengdocsv1_rul_rule100gt at Rule 100

14

52

- Case Study

( H R g ( HRrdquo))

rdquo

rdquo

53

HR ၆

rdquo

rdquo 54

rdquo

rdquo

၆ 55

၁၉ HR

52 International Commission of Jurists ldquoTrial Observation Manual for Criminal Proceedingsrdquo

(22 July 2009) lthttpswwwicjorgcriminal-trials-and-human-rights-a-manual-on-trial-

observationgt at 84 53 UK Human Rights Act 1998 Schedule I Article 6(1) (emphasis added) 54 Philis v Greece Application No 1275087 1378088 1400388 (27 August 1991) at sect59 55 Ashingdane v the United Kingdom No 822578) (28 May 1985) at sect57

15

HR

( )

-၁

( )

-

၁ -

( )

56

57

56 57

16

( )

(

) (

)

58

( )

58

17

59

Justice Base

Justice

Base

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) ၆

၁၁၉ 60

-

59

( )

60

18

61

62

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61 62

19

( )

rdquo

rdquo

rdquo rdquo

rdquo

rdquo rdquo

rdquo

rdquo

-

rdquo rdquo

( )

20

- -

63 (

)

-

-

63 ၁

Antoni Slodkowski and Soe Zeya Tun ldquoMyanmar

opposition candidate attacked with machetesrdquo (29 October 2015) Reuters

httpwwwreuterscomarticleus-myanmar-election-violence-idUSKCN0SN2GU2015102

21

( )

Diagram 2 A typical courtroom

(

)

Judge

Table

Clerk

Witness

Clerk

Lawyer

Lawyer Complainant

Defendant

Lawyer

22

-

-

64

( )

64 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at [28]

23

( )

65

-

rdquo

rdquo

rdquo 65

24

rdquo

rdquo

( )

(

( ) )

(

)

( )

25

66

(

) 67

68

66 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at para 29 (ldquo rdquo)

67 68 Christina Fink Living Silence in Burma (2nd ed Zed Books London 2009) at 134 as cited in

Fortify Rights ldquoMidnight Intrusion Ending Guest Registration and Household Inspections in

Myanmarrdquo (March 2015) Fortify Rights ltwwwfortifyrightsorggt at 12

26

၁၁

N k 69

-

-

( )

rdquo70

71

(

)

69 Cheesman above n 2 at 101 70 Cheesman n 2 at 117 71 See Part II subpart B above

27

Justice Base

customer

service trainings

Justice Base

( -၁)

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( )

28

( (၁) )

( - ) (၁)

( )

( - )

( - )

(

)

29

( - )

( )

( -၁)

( - )

( - )

30

31

( )

-

-

-

32

-

-

---------------------------- _________________________

33

( )

- 72 ၁

( )

( )

___________________________________________________________

( )

__________________________________________________ ( )

Yes No ( ______________________________________)

Yes No ___________________________________________________________

Yes No ( ________________________________________)

72

34

၁၁

____________________________________________________ Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No _________________ - Yes No - Yes No - ________________ Yes No ________________ - Yes No

( ______________________________________) ______ _______________________________ Yes No ___________________________________________________ Yes No __________________________________________________

( )

35

Yes No Yes No Yes No

Yes No - - Yes No - Yes No ___________________________ - Yes No -- Yes No - Yes No ( _____________)

၁၆ ( )

Yes No

Yes No

36

၁၉

( )

( )

Yes No Yes No

Yes No ____________

( )

Yes No Yes No

( )

37

- 73 ၁ gt gt၁ gt gt၁ gt +

[____ ____ ] ၆

[ ________________________________)

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

73

38

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

၉ cause list

Yes No

39

Yes No Yes No [ ____________________________________________)

၁၁

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

40

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No ___________________________________________

41

__________________________________________

Yes No [ ____________________________________________]

Yes No Yes No _____________________________________________________]

၁၆

Yes No [ ________________________________________________] Yes No [ ___________________________________________] Yes No

42

[ _________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________]

Yes No [ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________]

Yes No ____________________________________ ________________________________________________________

၁၉

Yes No ( ) _______________________________________________ [ ] Yes No [ ___________________________________________]

Yes No -

43

] - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------___________________________]

Yes No ______________________________________________ _________________________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________ ____________________________________________________----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Yes No _________________________________

44

( ) ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ Yes No

________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________

( )

Yes No __________________________________________________ Yes No -

Yes No _________________________________________________ ___________________

45

_________________________________________

Yes No ___________________________ ______________________

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No

46

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

47

Framing of the charges

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Final Argument

Yes No Yes No

ဍ Yes No

48

Yes No

Yes No Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Comments

49

- 1 2

3

4 5 a b c 6

7

8

[_______________________________]

9

10

Yes No

11

[ ________________________________)

12

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___]

50

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

13

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

14

[ _______________________________________]

1 cause list Yes

51

5

No

16

Yes No Yes No __________________________________________]

17

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

19

Yes No

20

Page 2: JUSTICE BASE - Progressive Voice...Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal 5 (2000), at pg. 25. 14 Nick Cheesman “Thin Rule of Law or Un-Rule of Law in Myanmar?”(2010) 82(4) Pacific

JUSTICE BASE

- -

Endland and Wales at A

Charity Number 1153878

Email- infojusticebaseorg wwwjusticebaseorg

၂၅ ၂၀၁၇

Open Society Foundations

၁ 1

၁-၁ 1

၁-၂ 2

၂ 5

၂-၁ 5

၂-၂

7

၂-၃ 11

၂-၄ 14

၃ 15

၃-၁ 15

၃-၂ 17

၃-၃ 19

၄ 24

31

33

i

Justice Base

Justice Base

Justice Base

Justice Base

Open Society Foundation

Peace and Disarmament Education Trust

၄ ႔

႔ Justice Base

ii

၂၀၁၅ ႔ (NLD)

1 NLD

႔ ၄

2

႔ (၂၀၀၈) (၂၀၀၈ ႔ )

၂၀၁၆

Justice Base

႔ ႔

ldquoMyanmarrsquos General Election A New Erardquo (12 November 2015) The Economist

ltwwweconomistcomgt

Nick Cheesman ldquoOpposing the Rule of Law How Myanmarrsquos Courts Make Law and Orderrdquo

(Cambridge University Press United Kingdom 2015) at 117-118

iii

(၁)

႔ (၂)

၄ ႔

(၃) Justice Base

iv

႔ ႔

၄ ( ) ႔

Justice Base

႔ ႔

၅၀ ၃၆ ၁၁၉ ႔

၂၀၅ Justice Base

၁ ၃၆ ၆ ႔ ႔ ၁၆ ႔

႔ ႔

v

႔ ႔

႔ ႔

၂ ၄ ႔

႔ ႔ ႔

႔ ႔ ႔

႔ ႔

၃ ၅၀

႔ ႔

၄ ႔

႔ ႔

၁၅ ၁၅ ႔

၃ ၁ ႔

vi

႔ ႔

၆၀ ႔

႔ ႔

႔ ႔

႔ ႔

႔ ႔

႑ ႔

Justice Base

၁ ႔

၂၀၀၈

႔ ၁၉ ၂၀၁၀

၃ ႔

႔ ႔ ႔ ႔

vii

႔ ၄ ႔

႔ ႔ ၄ ႔

႔ ႔ ႔

႔ ႔

႔ ႔

႔ ႔

၃ ႔

႔ ႔

1

(၁)

၁-၁

1

2

3

၁ 4

5

6

7

၁ 8

1 ( ) (၆) 2 ၁၆

၉ ( ) 3

( ) ၁ ၁ -

4 ( ) ၁ ၆

5 ၉ ၉ 6 ၁၉ 7 8 ၁ httpwwwunionsupremecourtgovmm

2

၁-

9

rdquo 10 International Commission of

Jurists 11

9 (၁) ၁၁( ) ၁၉( ) 10 Yanghee Lee ldquoReport of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in

Myanmarrdquo (18 March 2016) AHRC3171 at 15 11 International Commission of Jurists ldquoRe Implementable Action Plans from the ICJ to the

new Parliament amp Governmentrdquo (3 May 2016) lthttpswwwicjorgwp-

contentuploads201606Myanmar-Recommendation-to-NLD-Gvt-Advocacy-Analysis-Brief-

2016-ENGpdfgt at 5-6 See also International Commission of Jurists ldquoMyanmar Country

Profile prepared by the ICJ Centre for the Independence of Judges and Lawyersrdquo (2014)

High Court (Region or State)

District Courts

Other Courts Constituted by Law (eg Juvenile

Courts)

Courts of Self-Administered Zones

Township Courts

Courts of Self-Administered Divisions

3

၁၉၆

rdquo12

၁၉

၁၉

rdquo 13

၁၉

rdquo 14

rdquo

rdquo 15

rdquo 16

lthttpswwwicjorgwp-contentuploads201406CIJL-Country-Profile-Myanmar-June-

2014pdfgt 12 Myint Zan ldquoJudicial Independence in Burma No March Backwards Towards the Pastrdquo 1

Asian-Pacific Law amp Policy Journal 5 (2000) at pg 13 13 Id at 25

Asian-Pacific Law amp Policy Journal 5 (2000) at pg 25 14 Nick Cheesman ldquoThin Rule of Law or Un-Rule of Law in Myanmarrdquo (2010) 82(4) Pacific Affairs 597 at 612 15 Cheesman above n 2 at 161ndash162 16 International Commission of Jurists ldquoMyanmar Country Profile prepared by the ICJ Centre

4

17

18

19

20

21

for the Independence of Judges and Lawyersrdquo above n 14 at 11 See also Khaing Sape Saw

ldquoTackling Myanmar‟s Corruption Challengerdquo (April 2015) 13 Focus Asia Perspectives and

Analysis 1 17 Lee above n 13 at 15 International Bar Association‟s Human Rights Initiative ldquoThe Rule of

Law in Myanmar Challenges and Prospectsrdquo (International Bar Association London

December 2012) 18 See International Commission of Jurists ldquoRight to Counsel The Independence of Lawyers in

Myanmarrdquo (2013)ltwwwicjorggt at 31 DLA Piper New Perimeter ldquoMyanmar Rule of Law

Assessmentrdquo (March 2013) ltwwwnewperimetercomgt at 36 19 See International Commission of Jurists ldquoRight to Counsel The Independence of Lawyers in

Myanmarrdquo above n 20 Melissa Crouch ldquoRediscovering bdquoLaw‟ in Myanmarrdquo (2014) 23 Pac

Rim L amp Pol‟y J 543 at 545-46 20 Lee above n 13 at 15 21

၁( ) ၁ ( )( ) ( )( )

5

22

23

24

( )

-၁

22 The distinction between substantive law reform and advocacy for formal legality in the

context of ldquocause lawyeringrdquo in Myanmar is drawn in Nick Cheesman and Kyaw Min San

ldquoNot Just Defending Advocating for Law in Myanmarrdquo (2014) 31 Wis Int‟l L J 702 at 704ndash

705 23 See for instance the All Burma Federation of Student Unions‟ boycott of the ldquofailedrdquo court

system ldquoStudents to boycott failed judicial systemrdquo (March 15 2016) Asian Human Rights

Commission Press Release AHRC-STM-033-2016

lthttpwwwahrchkorgruleoflawasianetnewsphpid=AHRC-STM-033-2016gt See also

International Commission of Jurists above n 20 at 14-15 Justice Base ldquoVoices from the

Intersection Women‟s Access to Justice in the Plural Legal System of Myanmarrdquo (2016)

ltwwwjusticebaseorggt at 9 54 and 81 This problem is recognised by Myanmar‟s

government see ldquoMoving Forward to the Rule of Law Strategic Plan 2015ndash2019rdquo (Union

Attorney General‟s Office Nay Pyi Taw 2015) at 11 24 Jeremy Lever ldquoWhy Procedure is More Important than Substantive Lawrdquo 48 Int‟l amp Comp

LQ 285 (1999) at 300 discussing Tom Tyler Who Do People Obey the Law (Yale University

Press New Haven 1990)

6

rdquo 25 (

)

26

27

28

25

Ola Johan Settem ldquoApplications of the bdquoFair Hearing‟ Norm in ECHR Article 6(1) to Civil

Proceedingsrdquo (Springer New York 2016) at 120 See also Human Rights Committee General

Comment No 32 CCPRCGC32 (23 August 2007) at para 28 26 M Cherif Bassiouni ldquoHuman Rights in the Context of Criminal Justice Identifying

International Procedural Protections and Equivalent Protections in National Constitutionsrdquo

(1992ndash1993) 3 Duke J Comp Int‟l L 235 at 274 Anthony C Epstein ldquoOpen Courts Closed

Trialsrdquo (1986) 13 Litigation 23 at 24 27

( )

28 Bassiouni above n 28 at 274

7

rdquo29 30 31

-

၁၉( ) rdquo

၁ ( )

29 Sarosh Zaiwalla ldquoSecret courts justice conducted behind closed doors is no justice at allrdquo (19

August 2013) The Guardian ltwwwtheguardiancomgt 30 Tom Bingham ldquoThe Rule of Lawrdquo (Penguin London 2011) at 96-97 31

ldquodemocracies die behind closed doorsrdquo

see Detroit Free Press v Ashcroft 03 F3d 681 (6th Cir 2002) per Keith J

8

၁ ၉ -

(၁)

rdquo

( )

rdquo

၁၉( )

9

(

)

32

33

34

၁၉၉ ( )

၁၆ ၁၆

Burma Official

Secrets Act 1923 ၁

35

32 See Human Rights Committee n 27 at para 29 UN Commission on Human Rights rdquoThe

Siracusa Principles on the Limitation and Derogation Provisions in the International Covenant

on Civil and Political Rightsrdquo ECN419854 (28 September 1984) para 38(a) 33 Stefan Trechsel ldquoThe Significance of International Human Rights for Criminal Procedurerdquo

(2011) 6 Nat‟l Taiwan Univ Law Rev 1 at 191 (witness reprisal) Mole Nuala and Harby

ldquoThe Right to a Fair Trial A guide to the implementation of Article 6 of the European

Convention on Human Rightsrdquo (2006) at 22 34 UN Commission on Human Rights rdquoThe Siracusa Principles on the Limitation and

Derogation Provisions in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rightsrdquo above n

35 para 38(a) 35 ၁

10

36

37

Justice Base

Justice Base

38

36 ( ) 37

( ၁ ) wwwunionsupremecourtgovmm rdquo ( ) - ၁

38 Human Rights

Committee n 27 at para 29 (ldquo rdquo)

11

၁ - ၁

rdquo

rdquo 39

-

( UDHRrdquo)

40

(International Covenant on Civil and

P R g ( PR))

41

39 Eleven ldquoJudicial process must be independent and transparent says Chief justicerdquo ( ၉ ၁ ) httpwwwelevenmyanmarcomlocaljudicial-process-must-be-independent-and-

transparent-says-chief-justice 40 Universal Declaration of Human Rights GA Res 217A (III) (10 December 1948) art 10 41 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 999 UNTS 171 (opened for signature 16

December 1966 entered into force 23 March 1976) art 14

12

42

(H R g ) PR

rdquo

( )

43

44

PR

42 UN Commission on Human Rights rdquoThe Siracusa Principles on the Limitation and

Derogation Provisions in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rightsrdquo above n

35 para 38(a) 43 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at paras 3 16 and 28 44 At para 29

13

45

UDHR PR UDHR

46 UDHR 47

PR 48

49 UDHR

(UDHR

) UDHR

50

UDHR

ICCPR

51

45 At para 28 46 See ldquoYearbook of the United Nations 1948ndash1949rdquo The Yearbook of the United Nations

ltunyearbookunorggt at 535 47 Malcolm N Shaw International Law (7th ed Cambridge University Press Cambridge 2014)

at 279 48 Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review Myanmar AHRC3113 (23

December 015) at [1434] reaffirming the commitment expressed during the previous

Universal Periodic Review Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review

Myanmar AHRC179 (24 March 2011) at [1046] ( ) see AHRC3113 (23 December 2015) at [14348]

49 See United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner ldquoStatus of Ratificationrdquo

lthttpindicatorsohchrorggt 50 ldquo rdquo Restat 3d of the Foreign Relations Law of the US (1987) at sect

102(2) and (3) 51 Patrick Robinson ldquoThe Right to a Fair Trial in International Law with Specific Reference to

the Work of the ICTYrdquo (2009) 3 Berk J Intl L Publicist 1 at 5 See also Yvonne McDermott

ldquoThe Right to a Fair Trial in International Criminal Lawrdquo (PhD thesis National University of

Ireland Galway July 2013) at 17 and in a related context see ldquoCustomary International

Humanitarian Law Databaserdquo International Committee of the Red Cross lthttpsihl-

databasesicrcorgcustomary-ihlengdocsv1_rul_rule100gt at Rule 100

14

52

- Case Study

( H R g ( HRrdquo))

rdquo

rdquo

53

HR ၆

rdquo

rdquo 54

rdquo

rdquo

၆ 55

၁၉ HR

52 International Commission of Jurists ldquoTrial Observation Manual for Criminal Proceedingsrdquo

(22 July 2009) lthttpswwwicjorgcriminal-trials-and-human-rights-a-manual-on-trial-

observationgt at 84 53 UK Human Rights Act 1998 Schedule I Article 6(1) (emphasis added) 54 Philis v Greece Application No 1275087 1378088 1400388 (27 August 1991) at sect59 55 Ashingdane v the United Kingdom No 822578) (28 May 1985) at sect57

15

HR

( )

-၁

( )

-

၁ -

( )

56

57

56 57

16

( )

(

) (

)

58

( )

58

17

59

Justice Base

Justice

Base

၆ ( ၁

) ၆

၁၁၉ 60

-

59

( )

60

18

61

62

rdquo

61 62

19

( )

rdquo

rdquo

rdquo rdquo

rdquo

rdquo rdquo

rdquo

rdquo

-

rdquo rdquo

( )

20

- -

63 (

)

-

-

63 ၁

Antoni Slodkowski and Soe Zeya Tun ldquoMyanmar

opposition candidate attacked with machetesrdquo (29 October 2015) Reuters

httpwwwreuterscomarticleus-myanmar-election-violence-idUSKCN0SN2GU2015102

21

( )

Diagram 2 A typical courtroom

(

)

Judge

Table

Clerk

Witness

Clerk

Lawyer

Lawyer Complainant

Defendant

Lawyer

22

-

-

64

( )

64 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at [28]

23

( )

65

-

rdquo

rdquo

rdquo 65

24

rdquo

rdquo

( )

(

( ) )

(

)

( )

25

66

(

) 67

68

66 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at para 29 (ldquo rdquo)

67 68 Christina Fink Living Silence in Burma (2nd ed Zed Books London 2009) at 134 as cited in

Fortify Rights ldquoMidnight Intrusion Ending Guest Registration and Household Inspections in

Myanmarrdquo (March 2015) Fortify Rights ltwwwfortifyrightsorggt at 12

26

၁၁

N k 69

-

-

( )

rdquo70

71

(

)

69 Cheesman above n 2 at 101 70 Cheesman n 2 at 117 71 See Part II subpart B above

27

Justice Base

customer

service trainings

Justice Base

( -၁)

၁၉( ) ၁

( )

28

( (၁) )

( - ) (၁)

( )

( - )

( - )

(

)

29

( - )

( )

( -၁)

( - )

( - )

30

31

( )

-

-

-

32

-

-

---------------------------- _________________________

33

( )

- 72 ၁

( )

( )

___________________________________________________________

( )

__________________________________________________ ( )

Yes No ( ______________________________________)

Yes No ___________________________________________________________

Yes No ( ________________________________________)

72

34

၁၁

____________________________________________________ Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No _________________ - Yes No - Yes No - ________________ Yes No ________________ - Yes No

( ______________________________________) ______ _______________________________ Yes No ___________________________________________________ Yes No __________________________________________________

( )

35

Yes No Yes No Yes No

Yes No - - Yes No - Yes No ___________________________ - Yes No -- Yes No - Yes No ( _____________)

၁၆ ( )

Yes No

Yes No

36

၁၉

( )

( )

Yes No Yes No

Yes No ____________

( )

Yes No Yes No

( )

37

- 73 ၁ gt gt၁ gt gt၁ gt +

[____ ____ ] ၆

[ ________________________________)

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

73

38

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

၉ cause list

Yes No

39

Yes No Yes No [ ____________________________________________)

၁၁

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

40

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No ___________________________________________

41

__________________________________________

Yes No [ ____________________________________________]

Yes No Yes No _____________________________________________________]

၁၆

Yes No [ ________________________________________________] Yes No [ ___________________________________________] Yes No

42

[ _________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________]

Yes No [ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________]

Yes No ____________________________________ ________________________________________________________

၁၉

Yes No ( ) _______________________________________________ [ ] Yes No [ ___________________________________________]

Yes No -

43

] - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------___________________________]

Yes No ______________________________________________ _________________________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________ ____________________________________________________----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Yes No _________________________________

44

( ) ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ Yes No

________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________

( )

Yes No __________________________________________________ Yes No -

Yes No _________________________________________________ ___________________

45

_________________________________________

Yes No ___________________________ ______________________

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No

46

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

47

Framing of the charges

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Final Argument

Yes No Yes No

ဍ Yes No

48

Yes No

Yes No Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Comments

49

- 1 2

3

4 5 a b c 6

7

8

[_______________________________]

9

10

Yes No

11

[ ________________________________)

12

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___]

50

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

13

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

14

[ _______________________________________]

1 cause list Yes

51

5

No

16

Yes No Yes No __________________________________________]

17

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

19

Yes No

20

Page 3: JUSTICE BASE - Progressive Voice...Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal 5 (2000), at pg. 25. 14 Nick Cheesman “Thin Rule of Law or Un-Rule of Law in Myanmar?”(2010) 82(4) Pacific

၁ 1

၁-၁ 1

၁-၂ 2

၂ 5

၂-၁ 5

၂-၂

7

၂-၃ 11

၂-၄ 14

၃ 15

၃-၁ 15

၃-၂ 17

၃-၃ 19

၄ 24

31

33

i

Justice Base

Justice Base

Justice Base

Justice Base

Open Society Foundation

Peace and Disarmament Education Trust

၄ ႔

႔ Justice Base

ii

၂၀၁၅ ႔ (NLD)

1 NLD

႔ ၄

2

႔ (၂၀၀၈) (၂၀၀၈ ႔ )

၂၀၁၆

Justice Base

႔ ႔

ldquoMyanmarrsquos General Election A New Erardquo (12 November 2015) The Economist

ltwwweconomistcomgt

Nick Cheesman ldquoOpposing the Rule of Law How Myanmarrsquos Courts Make Law and Orderrdquo

(Cambridge University Press United Kingdom 2015) at 117-118

iii

(၁)

႔ (၂)

၄ ႔

(၃) Justice Base

iv

႔ ႔

၄ ( ) ႔

Justice Base

႔ ႔

၅၀ ၃၆ ၁၁၉ ႔

၂၀၅ Justice Base

၁ ၃၆ ၆ ႔ ႔ ၁၆ ႔

႔ ႔

v

႔ ႔

႔ ႔

၂ ၄ ႔

႔ ႔ ႔

႔ ႔ ႔

႔ ႔

၃ ၅၀

႔ ႔

၄ ႔

႔ ႔

၁၅ ၁၅ ႔

၃ ၁ ႔

vi

႔ ႔

၆၀ ႔

႔ ႔

႔ ႔

႔ ႔

႔ ႔

႑ ႔

Justice Base

၁ ႔

၂၀၀၈

႔ ၁၉ ၂၀၁၀

၃ ႔

႔ ႔ ႔ ႔

vii

႔ ၄ ႔

႔ ႔ ၄ ႔

႔ ႔ ႔

႔ ႔

႔ ႔

႔ ႔

၃ ႔

႔ ႔

1

(၁)

၁-၁

1

2

3

၁ 4

5

6

7

၁ 8

1 ( ) (၆) 2 ၁၆

၉ ( ) 3

( ) ၁ ၁ -

4 ( ) ၁ ၆

5 ၉ ၉ 6 ၁၉ 7 8 ၁ httpwwwunionsupremecourtgovmm

2

၁-

9

rdquo 10 International Commission of

Jurists 11

9 (၁) ၁၁( ) ၁၉( ) 10 Yanghee Lee ldquoReport of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in

Myanmarrdquo (18 March 2016) AHRC3171 at 15 11 International Commission of Jurists ldquoRe Implementable Action Plans from the ICJ to the

new Parliament amp Governmentrdquo (3 May 2016) lthttpswwwicjorgwp-

contentuploads201606Myanmar-Recommendation-to-NLD-Gvt-Advocacy-Analysis-Brief-

2016-ENGpdfgt at 5-6 See also International Commission of Jurists ldquoMyanmar Country

Profile prepared by the ICJ Centre for the Independence of Judges and Lawyersrdquo (2014)

High Court (Region or State)

District Courts

Other Courts Constituted by Law (eg Juvenile

Courts)

Courts of Self-Administered Zones

Township Courts

Courts of Self-Administered Divisions

3

၁၉၆

rdquo12

၁၉

၁၉

rdquo 13

၁၉

rdquo 14

rdquo

rdquo 15

rdquo 16

lthttpswwwicjorgwp-contentuploads201406CIJL-Country-Profile-Myanmar-June-

2014pdfgt 12 Myint Zan ldquoJudicial Independence in Burma No March Backwards Towards the Pastrdquo 1

Asian-Pacific Law amp Policy Journal 5 (2000) at pg 13 13 Id at 25

Asian-Pacific Law amp Policy Journal 5 (2000) at pg 25 14 Nick Cheesman ldquoThin Rule of Law or Un-Rule of Law in Myanmarrdquo (2010) 82(4) Pacific Affairs 597 at 612 15 Cheesman above n 2 at 161ndash162 16 International Commission of Jurists ldquoMyanmar Country Profile prepared by the ICJ Centre

4

17

18

19

20

21

for the Independence of Judges and Lawyersrdquo above n 14 at 11 See also Khaing Sape Saw

ldquoTackling Myanmar‟s Corruption Challengerdquo (April 2015) 13 Focus Asia Perspectives and

Analysis 1 17 Lee above n 13 at 15 International Bar Association‟s Human Rights Initiative ldquoThe Rule of

Law in Myanmar Challenges and Prospectsrdquo (International Bar Association London

December 2012) 18 See International Commission of Jurists ldquoRight to Counsel The Independence of Lawyers in

Myanmarrdquo (2013)ltwwwicjorggt at 31 DLA Piper New Perimeter ldquoMyanmar Rule of Law

Assessmentrdquo (March 2013) ltwwwnewperimetercomgt at 36 19 See International Commission of Jurists ldquoRight to Counsel The Independence of Lawyers in

Myanmarrdquo above n 20 Melissa Crouch ldquoRediscovering bdquoLaw‟ in Myanmarrdquo (2014) 23 Pac

Rim L amp Pol‟y J 543 at 545-46 20 Lee above n 13 at 15 21

၁( ) ၁ ( )( ) ( )( )

5

22

23

24

( )

-၁

22 The distinction between substantive law reform and advocacy for formal legality in the

context of ldquocause lawyeringrdquo in Myanmar is drawn in Nick Cheesman and Kyaw Min San

ldquoNot Just Defending Advocating for Law in Myanmarrdquo (2014) 31 Wis Int‟l L J 702 at 704ndash

705 23 See for instance the All Burma Federation of Student Unions‟ boycott of the ldquofailedrdquo court

system ldquoStudents to boycott failed judicial systemrdquo (March 15 2016) Asian Human Rights

Commission Press Release AHRC-STM-033-2016

lthttpwwwahrchkorgruleoflawasianetnewsphpid=AHRC-STM-033-2016gt See also

International Commission of Jurists above n 20 at 14-15 Justice Base ldquoVoices from the

Intersection Women‟s Access to Justice in the Plural Legal System of Myanmarrdquo (2016)

ltwwwjusticebaseorggt at 9 54 and 81 This problem is recognised by Myanmar‟s

government see ldquoMoving Forward to the Rule of Law Strategic Plan 2015ndash2019rdquo (Union

Attorney General‟s Office Nay Pyi Taw 2015) at 11 24 Jeremy Lever ldquoWhy Procedure is More Important than Substantive Lawrdquo 48 Int‟l amp Comp

LQ 285 (1999) at 300 discussing Tom Tyler Who Do People Obey the Law (Yale University

Press New Haven 1990)

6

rdquo 25 (

)

26

27

28

25

Ola Johan Settem ldquoApplications of the bdquoFair Hearing‟ Norm in ECHR Article 6(1) to Civil

Proceedingsrdquo (Springer New York 2016) at 120 See also Human Rights Committee General

Comment No 32 CCPRCGC32 (23 August 2007) at para 28 26 M Cherif Bassiouni ldquoHuman Rights in the Context of Criminal Justice Identifying

International Procedural Protections and Equivalent Protections in National Constitutionsrdquo

(1992ndash1993) 3 Duke J Comp Int‟l L 235 at 274 Anthony C Epstein ldquoOpen Courts Closed

Trialsrdquo (1986) 13 Litigation 23 at 24 27

( )

28 Bassiouni above n 28 at 274

7

rdquo29 30 31

-

၁၉( ) rdquo

၁ ( )

29 Sarosh Zaiwalla ldquoSecret courts justice conducted behind closed doors is no justice at allrdquo (19

August 2013) The Guardian ltwwwtheguardiancomgt 30 Tom Bingham ldquoThe Rule of Lawrdquo (Penguin London 2011) at 96-97 31

ldquodemocracies die behind closed doorsrdquo

see Detroit Free Press v Ashcroft 03 F3d 681 (6th Cir 2002) per Keith J

8

၁ ၉ -

(၁)

rdquo

( )

rdquo

၁၉( )

9

(

)

32

33

34

၁၉၉ ( )

၁၆ ၁၆

Burma Official

Secrets Act 1923 ၁

35

32 See Human Rights Committee n 27 at para 29 UN Commission on Human Rights rdquoThe

Siracusa Principles on the Limitation and Derogation Provisions in the International Covenant

on Civil and Political Rightsrdquo ECN419854 (28 September 1984) para 38(a) 33 Stefan Trechsel ldquoThe Significance of International Human Rights for Criminal Procedurerdquo

(2011) 6 Nat‟l Taiwan Univ Law Rev 1 at 191 (witness reprisal) Mole Nuala and Harby

ldquoThe Right to a Fair Trial A guide to the implementation of Article 6 of the European

Convention on Human Rightsrdquo (2006) at 22 34 UN Commission on Human Rights rdquoThe Siracusa Principles on the Limitation and

Derogation Provisions in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rightsrdquo above n

35 para 38(a) 35 ၁

10

36

37

Justice Base

Justice Base

38

36 ( ) 37

( ၁ ) wwwunionsupremecourtgovmm rdquo ( ) - ၁

38 Human Rights

Committee n 27 at para 29 (ldquo rdquo)

11

၁ - ၁

rdquo

rdquo 39

-

( UDHRrdquo)

40

(International Covenant on Civil and

P R g ( PR))

41

39 Eleven ldquoJudicial process must be independent and transparent says Chief justicerdquo ( ၉ ၁ ) httpwwwelevenmyanmarcomlocaljudicial-process-must-be-independent-and-

transparent-says-chief-justice 40 Universal Declaration of Human Rights GA Res 217A (III) (10 December 1948) art 10 41 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 999 UNTS 171 (opened for signature 16

December 1966 entered into force 23 March 1976) art 14

12

42

(H R g ) PR

rdquo

( )

43

44

PR

42 UN Commission on Human Rights rdquoThe Siracusa Principles on the Limitation and

Derogation Provisions in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rightsrdquo above n

35 para 38(a) 43 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at paras 3 16 and 28 44 At para 29

13

45

UDHR PR UDHR

46 UDHR 47

PR 48

49 UDHR

(UDHR

) UDHR

50

UDHR

ICCPR

51

45 At para 28 46 See ldquoYearbook of the United Nations 1948ndash1949rdquo The Yearbook of the United Nations

ltunyearbookunorggt at 535 47 Malcolm N Shaw International Law (7th ed Cambridge University Press Cambridge 2014)

at 279 48 Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review Myanmar AHRC3113 (23

December 015) at [1434] reaffirming the commitment expressed during the previous

Universal Periodic Review Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review

Myanmar AHRC179 (24 March 2011) at [1046] ( ) see AHRC3113 (23 December 2015) at [14348]

49 See United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner ldquoStatus of Ratificationrdquo

lthttpindicatorsohchrorggt 50 ldquo rdquo Restat 3d of the Foreign Relations Law of the US (1987) at sect

102(2) and (3) 51 Patrick Robinson ldquoThe Right to a Fair Trial in International Law with Specific Reference to

the Work of the ICTYrdquo (2009) 3 Berk J Intl L Publicist 1 at 5 See also Yvonne McDermott

ldquoThe Right to a Fair Trial in International Criminal Lawrdquo (PhD thesis National University of

Ireland Galway July 2013) at 17 and in a related context see ldquoCustomary International

Humanitarian Law Databaserdquo International Committee of the Red Cross lthttpsihl-

databasesicrcorgcustomary-ihlengdocsv1_rul_rule100gt at Rule 100

14

52

- Case Study

( H R g ( HRrdquo))

rdquo

rdquo

53

HR ၆

rdquo

rdquo 54

rdquo

rdquo

၆ 55

၁၉ HR

52 International Commission of Jurists ldquoTrial Observation Manual for Criminal Proceedingsrdquo

(22 July 2009) lthttpswwwicjorgcriminal-trials-and-human-rights-a-manual-on-trial-

observationgt at 84 53 UK Human Rights Act 1998 Schedule I Article 6(1) (emphasis added) 54 Philis v Greece Application No 1275087 1378088 1400388 (27 August 1991) at sect59 55 Ashingdane v the United Kingdom No 822578) (28 May 1985) at sect57

15

HR

( )

-၁

( )

-

၁ -

( )

56

57

56 57

16

( )

(

) (

)

58

( )

58

17

59

Justice Base

Justice

Base

၆ ( ၁

) ၆

၁၁၉ 60

-

59

( )

60

18

61

62

rdquo

61 62

19

( )

rdquo

rdquo

rdquo rdquo

rdquo

rdquo rdquo

rdquo

rdquo

-

rdquo rdquo

( )

20

- -

63 (

)

-

-

63 ၁

Antoni Slodkowski and Soe Zeya Tun ldquoMyanmar

opposition candidate attacked with machetesrdquo (29 October 2015) Reuters

httpwwwreuterscomarticleus-myanmar-election-violence-idUSKCN0SN2GU2015102

21

( )

Diagram 2 A typical courtroom

(

)

Judge

Table

Clerk

Witness

Clerk

Lawyer

Lawyer Complainant

Defendant

Lawyer

22

-

-

64

( )

64 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at [28]

23

( )

65

-

rdquo

rdquo

rdquo 65

24

rdquo

rdquo

( )

(

( ) )

(

)

( )

25

66

(

) 67

68

66 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at para 29 (ldquo rdquo)

67 68 Christina Fink Living Silence in Burma (2nd ed Zed Books London 2009) at 134 as cited in

Fortify Rights ldquoMidnight Intrusion Ending Guest Registration and Household Inspections in

Myanmarrdquo (March 2015) Fortify Rights ltwwwfortifyrightsorggt at 12

26

၁၁

N k 69

-

-

( )

rdquo70

71

(

)

69 Cheesman above n 2 at 101 70 Cheesman n 2 at 117 71 See Part II subpart B above

27

Justice Base

customer

service trainings

Justice Base

( -၁)

၁၉( ) ၁

( )

28

( (၁) )

( - ) (၁)

( )

( - )

( - )

(

)

29

( - )

( )

( -၁)

( - )

( - )

30

31

( )

-

-

-

32

-

-

---------------------------- _________________________

33

( )

- 72 ၁

( )

( )

___________________________________________________________

( )

__________________________________________________ ( )

Yes No ( ______________________________________)

Yes No ___________________________________________________________

Yes No ( ________________________________________)

72

34

၁၁

____________________________________________________ Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No _________________ - Yes No - Yes No - ________________ Yes No ________________ - Yes No

( ______________________________________) ______ _______________________________ Yes No ___________________________________________________ Yes No __________________________________________________

( )

35

Yes No Yes No Yes No

Yes No - - Yes No - Yes No ___________________________ - Yes No -- Yes No - Yes No ( _____________)

၁၆ ( )

Yes No

Yes No

36

၁၉

( )

( )

Yes No Yes No

Yes No ____________

( )

Yes No Yes No

( )

37

- 73 ၁ gt gt၁ gt gt၁ gt +

[____ ____ ] ၆

[ ________________________________)

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

73

38

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

၉ cause list

Yes No

39

Yes No Yes No [ ____________________________________________)

၁၁

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

40

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No ___________________________________________

41

__________________________________________

Yes No [ ____________________________________________]

Yes No Yes No _____________________________________________________]

၁၆

Yes No [ ________________________________________________] Yes No [ ___________________________________________] Yes No

42

[ _________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________]

Yes No [ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________]

Yes No ____________________________________ ________________________________________________________

၁၉

Yes No ( ) _______________________________________________ [ ] Yes No [ ___________________________________________]

Yes No -

43

] - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------___________________________]

Yes No ______________________________________________ _________________________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________ ____________________________________________________----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Yes No _________________________________

44

( ) ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ Yes No

________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________

( )

Yes No __________________________________________________ Yes No -

Yes No _________________________________________________ ___________________

45

_________________________________________

Yes No ___________________________ ______________________

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No

46

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

47

Framing of the charges

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Final Argument

Yes No Yes No

ဍ Yes No

48

Yes No

Yes No Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Comments

49

- 1 2

3

4 5 a b c 6

7

8

[_______________________________]

9

10

Yes No

11

[ ________________________________)

12

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___]

50

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

13

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

14

[ _______________________________________]

1 cause list Yes

51

5

No

16

Yes No Yes No __________________________________________]

17

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

19

Yes No

20

Page 4: JUSTICE BASE - Progressive Voice...Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal 5 (2000), at pg. 25. 14 Nick Cheesman “Thin Rule of Law or Un-Rule of Law in Myanmar?”(2010) 82(4) Pacific

i

Justice Base

Justice Base

Justice Base

Justice Base

Open Society Foundation

Peace and Disarmament Education Trust

၄ ႔

႔ Justice Base

ii

၂၀၁၅ ႔ (NLD)

1 NLD

႔ ၄

2

႔ (၂၀၀၈) (၂၀၀၈ ႔ )

၂၀၁၆

Justice Base

႔ ႔

ldquoMyanmarrsquos General Election A New Erardquo (12 November 2015) The Economist

ltwwweconomistcomgt

Nick Cheesman ldquoOpposing the Rule of Law How Myanmarrsquos Courts Make Law and Orderrdquo

(Cambridge University Press United Kingdom 2015) at 117-118

iii

(၁)

႔ (၂)

၄ ႔

(၃) Justice Base

iv

႔ ႔

၄ ( ) ႔

Justice Base

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၅၀ ၃၆ ၁၁၉ ႔

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၁ ၃၆ ၆ ႔ ႔ ၁၆ ႔

႔ ႔

v

႔ ႔

႔ ႔

၂ ၄ ႔

႔ ႔ ႔

႔ ႔ ႔

႔ ႔

၃ ၅၀

႔ ႔

၄ ႔

႔ ႔

၁၅ ၁၅ ႔

၃ ၁ ႔

vi

႔ ႔

၆၀ ႔

႔ ႔

႔ ႔

႔ ႔

႔ ႔

႑ ႔

Justice Base

၁ ႔

၂၀၀၈

႔ ၁၉ ၂၀၁၀

၃ ႔

႔ ႔ ႔ ႔

vii

႔ ၄ ႔

႔ ႔ ၄ ႔

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႔ ႔

၃ ႔

႔ ႔

1

(၁)

၁-၁

1

2

3

၁ 4

5

6

7

၁ 8

1 ( ) (၆) 2 ၁၆

၉ ( ) 3

( ) ၁ ၁ -

4 ( ) ၁ ၆

5 ၉ ၉ 6 ၁၉ 7 8 ၁ httpwwwunionsupremecourtgovmm

2

၁-

9

rdquo 10 International Commission of

Jurists 11

9 (၁) ၁၁( ) ၁၉( ) 10 Yanghee Lee ldquoReport of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in

Myanmarrdquo (18 March 2016) AHRC3171 at 15 11 International Commission of Jurists ldquoRe Implementable Action Plans from the ICJ to the

new Parliament amp Governmentrdquo (3 May 2016) lthttpswwwicjorgwp-

contentuploads201606Myanmar-Recommendation-to-NLD-Gvt-Advocacy-Analysis-Brief-

2016-ENGpdfgt at 5-6 See also International Commission of Jurists ldquoMyanmar Country

Profile prepared by the ICJ Centre for the Independence of Judges and Lawyersrdquo (2014)

High Court (Region or State)

District Courts

Other Courts Constituted by Law (eg Juvenile

Courts)

Courts of Self-Administered Zones

Township Courts

Courts of Self-Administered Divisions

3

၁၉၆

rdquo12

၁၉

၁၉

rdquo 13

၁၉

rdquo 14

rdquo

rdquo 15

rdquo 16

lthttpswwwicjorgwp-contentuploads201406CIJL-Country-Profile-Myanmar-June-

2014pdfgt 12 Myint Zan ldquoJudicial Independence in Burma No March Backwards Towards the Pastrdquo 1

Asian-Pacific Law amp Policy Journal 5 (2000) at pg 13 13 Id at 25

Asian-Pacific Law amp Policy Journal 5 (2000) at pg 25 14 Nick Cheesman ldquoThin Rule of Law or Un-Rule of Law in Myanmarrdquo (2010) 82(4) Pacific Affairs 597 at 612 15 Cheesman above n 2 at 161ndash162 16 International Commission of Jurists ldquoMyanmar Country Profile prepared by the ICJ Centre

4

17

18

19

20

21

for the Independence of Judges and Lawyersrdquo above n 14 at 11 See also Khaing Sape Saw

ldquoTackling Myanmar‟s Corruption Challengerdquo (April 2015) 13 Focus Asia Perspectives and

Analysis 1 17 Lee above n 13 at 15 International Bar Association‟s Human Rights Initiative ldquoThe Rule of

Law in Myanmar Challenges and Prospectsrdquo (International Bar Association London

December 2012) 18 See International Commission of Jurists ldquoRight to Counsel The Independence of Lawyers in

Myanmarrdquo (2013)ltwwwicjorggt at 31 DLA Piper New Perimeter ldquoMyanmar Rule of Law

Assessmentrdquo (March 2013) ltwwwnewperimetercomgt at 36 19 See International Commission of Jurists ldquoRight to Counsel The Independence of Lawyers in

Myanmarrdquo above n 20 Melissa Crouch ldquoRediscovering bdquoLaw‟ in Myanmarrdquo (2014) 23 Pac

Rim L amp Pol‟y J 543 at 545-46 20 Lee above n 13 at 15 21

၁( ) ၁ ( )( ) ( )( )

5

22

23

24

( )

-၁

22 The distinction between substantive law reform and advocacy for formal legality in the

context of ldquocause lawyeringrdquo in Myanmar is drawn in Nick Cheesman and Kyaw Min San

ldquoNot Just Defending Advocating for Law in Myanmarrdquo (2014) 31 Wis Int‟l L J 702 at 704ndash

705 23 See for instance the All Burma Federation of Student Unions‟ boycott of the ldquofailedrdquo court

system ldquoStudents to boycott failed judicial systemrdquo (March 15 2016) Asian Human Rights

Commission Press Release AHRC-STM-033-2016

lthttpwwwahrchkorgruleoflawasianetnewsphpid=AHRC-STM-033-2016gt See also

International Commission of Jurists above n 20 at 14-15 Justice Base ldquoVoices from the

Intersection Women‟s Access to Justice in the Plural Legal System of Myanmarrdquo (2016)

ltwwwjusticebaseorggt at 9 54 and 81 This problem is recognised by Myanmar‟s

government see ldquoMoving Forward to the Rule of Law Strategic Plan 2015ndash2019rdquo (Union

Attorney General‟s Office Nay Pyi Taw 2015) at 11 24 Jeremy Lever ldquoWhy Procedure is More Important than Substantive Lawrdquo 48 Int‟l amp Comp

LQ 285 (1999) at 300 discussing Tom Tyler Who Do People Obey the Law (Yale University

Press New Haven 1990)

6

rdquo 25 (

)

26

27

28

25

Ola Johan Settem ldquoApplications of the bdquoFair Hearing‟ Norm in ECHR Article 6(1) to Civil

Proceedingsrdquo (Springer New York 2016) at 120 See also Human Rights Committee General

Comment No 32 CCPRCGC32 (23 August 2007) at para 28 26 M Cherif Bassiouni ldquoHuman Rights in the Context of Criminal Justice Identifying

International Procedural Protections and Equivalent Protections in National Constitutionsrdquo

(1992ndash1993) 3 Duke J Comp Int‟l L 235 at 274 Anthony C Epstein ldquoOpen Courts Closed

Trialsrdquo (1986) 13 Litigation 23 at 24 27

( )

28 Bassiouni above n 28 at 274

7

rdquo29 30 31

-

၁၉( ) rdquo

၁ ( )

29 Sarosh Zaiwalla ldquoSecret courts justice conducted behind closed doors is no justice at allrdquo (19

August 2013) The Guardian ltwwwtheguardiancomgt 30 Tom Bingham ldquoThe Rule of Lawrdquo (Penguin London 2011) at 96-97 31

ldquodemocracies die behind closed doorsrdquo

see Detroit Free Press v Ashcroft 03 F3d 681 (6th Cir 2002) per Keith J

8

၁ ၉ -

(၁)

rdquo

( )

rdquo

၁၉( )

9

(

)

32

33

34

၁၉၉ ( )

၁၆ ၁၆

Burma Official

Secrets Act 1923 ၁

35

32 See Human Rights Committee n 27 at para 29 UN Commission on Human Rights rdquoThe

Siracusa Principles on the Limitation and Derogation Provisions in the International Covenant

on Civil and Political Rightsrdquo ECN419854 (28 September 1984) para 38(a) 33 Stefan Trechsel ldquoThe Significance of International Human Rights for Criminal Procedurerdquo

(2011) 6 Nat‟l Taiwan Univ Law Rev 1 at 191 (witness reprisal) Mole Nuala and Harby

ldquoThe Right to a Fair Trial A guide to the implementation of Article 6 of the European

Convention on Human Rightsrdquo (2006) at 22 34 UN Commission on Human Rights rdquoThe Siracusa Principles on the Limitation and

Derogation Provisions in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rightsrdquo above n

35 para 38(a) 35 ၁

10

36

37

Justice Base

Justice Base

38

36 ( ) 37

( ၁ ) wwwunionsupremecourtgovmm rdquo ( ) - ၁

38 Human Rights

Committee n 27 at para 29 (ldquo rdquo)

11

၁ - ၁

rdquo

rdquo 39

-

( UDHRrdquo)

40

(International Covenant on Civil and

P R g ( PR))

41

39 Eleven ldquoJudicial process must be independent and transparent says Chief justicerdquo ( ၉ ၁ ) httpwwwelevenmyanmarcomlocaljudicial-process-must-be-independent-and-

transparent-says-chief-justice 40 Universal Declaration of Human Rights GA Res 217A (III) (10 December 1948) art 10 41 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 999 UNTS 171 (opened for signature 16

December 1966 entered into force 23 March 1976) art 14

12

42

(H R g ) PR

rdquo

( )

43

44

PR

42 UN Commission on Human Rights rdquoThe Siracusa Principles on the Limitation and

Derogation Provisions in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rightsrdquo above n

35 para 38(a) 43 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at paras 3 16 and 28 44 At para 29

13

45

UDHR PR UDHR

46 UDHR 47

PR 48

49 UDHR

(UDHR

) UDHR

50

UDHR

ICCPR

51

45 At para 28 46 See ldquoYearbook of the United Nations 1948ndash1949rdquo The Yearbook of the United Nations

ltunyearbookunorggt at 535 47 Malcolm N Shaw International Law (7th ed Cambridge University Press Cambridge 2014)

at 279 48 Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review Myanmar AHRC3113 (23

December 015) at [1434] reaffirming the commitment expressed during the previous

Universal Periodic Review Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review

Myanmar AHRC179 (24 March 2011) at [1046] ( ) see AHRC3113 (23 December 2015) at [14348]

49 See United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner ldquoStatus of Ratificationrdquo

lthttpindicatorsohchrorggt 50 ldquo rdquo Restat 3d of the Foreign Relations Law of the US (1987) at sect

102(2) and (3) 51 Patrick Robinson ldquoThe Right to a Fair Trial in International Law with Specific Reference to

the Work of the ICTYrdquo (2009) 3 Berk J Intl L Publicist 1 at 5 See also Yvonne McDermott

ldquoThe Right to a Fair Trial in International Criminal Lawrdquo (PhD thesis National University of

Ireland Galway July 2013) at 17 and in a related context see ldquoCustomary International

Humanitarian Law Databaserdquo International Committee of the Red Cross lthttpsihl-

databasesicrcorgcustomary-ihlengdocsv1_rul_rule100gt at Rule 100

14

52

- Case Study

( H R g ( HRrdquo))

rdquo

rdquo

53

HR ၆

rdquo

rdquo 54

rdquo

rdquo

၆ 55

၁၉ HR

52 International Commission of Jurists ldquoTrial Observation Manual for Criminal Proceedingsrdquo

(22 July 2009) lthttpswwwicjorgcriminal-trials-and-human-rights-a-manual-on-trial-

observationgt at 84 53 UK Human Rights Act 1998 Schedule I Article 6(1) (emphasis added) 54 Philis v Greece Application No 1275087 1378088 1400388 (27 August 1991) at sect59 55 Ashingdane v the United Kingdom No 822578) (28 May 1985) at sect57

15

HR

( )

-၁

( )

-

၁ -

( )

56

57

56 57

16

( )

(

) (

)

58

( )

58

17

59

Justice Base

Justice

Base

၆ ( ၁

) ၆

၁၁၉ 60

-

59

( )

60

18

61

62

rdquo

61 62

19

( )

rdquo

rdquo

rdquo rdquo

rdquo

rdquo rdquo

rdquo

rdquo

-

rdquo rdquo

( )

20

- -

63 (

)

-

-

63 ၁

Antoni Slodkowski and Soe Zeya Tun ldquoMyanmar

opposition candidate attacked with machetesrdquo (29 October 2015) Reuters

httpwwwreuterscomarticleus-myanmar-election-violence-idUSKCN0SN2GU2015102

21

( )

Diagram 2 A typical courtroom

(

)

Judge

Table

Clerk

Witness

Clerk

Lawyer

Lawyer Complainant

Defendant

Lawyer

22

-

-

64

( )

64 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at [28]

23

( )

65

-

rdquo

rdquo

rdquo 65

24

rdquo

rdquo

( )

(

( ) )

(

)

( )

25

66

(

) 67

68

66 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at para 29 (ldquo rdquo)

67 68 Christina Fink Living Silence in Burma (2nd ed Zed Books London 2009) at 134 as cited in

Fortify Rights ldquoMidnight Intrusion Ending Guest Registration and Household Inspections in

Myanmarrdquo (March 2015) Fortify Rights ltwwwfortifyrightsorggt at 12

26

၁၁

N k 69

-

-

( )

rdquo70

71

(

)

69 Cheesman above n 2 at 101 70 Cheesman n 2 at 117 71 See Part II subpart B above

27

Justice Base

customer

service trainings

Justice Base

( -၁)

၁၉( ) ၁

( )

28

( (၁) )

( - ) (၁)

( )

( - )

( - )

(

)

29

( - )

( )

( -၁)

( - )

( - )

30

31

( )

-

-

-

32

-

-

---------------------------- _________________________

33

( )

- 72 ၁

( )

( )

___________________________________________________________

( )

__________________________________________________ ( )

Yes No ( ______________________________________)

Yes No ___________________________________________________________

Yes No ( ________________________________________)

72

34

၁၁

____________________________________________________ Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No _________________ - Yes No - Yes No - ________________ Yes No ________________ - Yes No

( ______________________________________) ______ _______________________________ Yes No ___________________________________________________ Yes No __________________________________________________

( )

35

Yes No Yes No Yes No

Yes No - - Yes No - Yes No ___________________________ - Yes No -- Yes No - Yes No ( _____________)

၁၆ ( )

Yes No

Yes No

36

၁၉

( )

( )

Yes No Yes No

Yes No ____________

( )

Yes No Yes No

( )

37

- 73 ၁ gt gt၁ gt gt၁ gt +

[____ ____ ] ၆

[ ________________________________)

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

73

38

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

၉ cause list

Yes No

39

Yes No Yes No [ ____________________________________________)

၁၁

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

40

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No ___________________________________________

41

__________________________________________

Yes No [ ____________________________________________]

Yes No Yes No _____________________________________________________]

၁၆

Yes No [ ________________________________________________] Yes No [ ___________________________________________] Yes No

42

[ _________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________]

Yes No [ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________]

Yes No ____________________________________ ________________________________________________________

၁၉

Yes No ( ) _______________________________________________ [ ] Yes No [ ___________________________________________]

Yes No -

43

] - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------___________________________]

Yes No ______________________________________________ _________________________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________ ____________________________________________________----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Yes No _________________________________

44

( ) ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ Yes No

________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________

( )

Yes No __________________________________________________ Yes No -

Yes No _________________________________________________ ___________________

45

_________________________________________

Yes No ___________________________ ______________________

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No

46

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

47

Framing of the charges

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Final Argument

Yes No Yes No

ဍ Yes No

48

Yes No

Yes No Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Comments

49

- 1 2

3

4 5 a b c 6

7

8

[_______________________________]

9

10

Yes No

11

[ ________________________________)

12

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___]

50

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

13

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

14

[ _______________________________________]

1 cause list Yes

51

5

No

16

Yes No Yes No __________________________________________]

17

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

19

Yes No

20

Page 5: JUSTICE BASE - Progressive Voice...Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal 5 (2000), at pg. 25. 14 Nick Cheesman “Thin Rule of Law or Un-Rule of Law in Myanmar?”(2010) 82(4) Pacific

ii

၂၀၁၅ ႔ (NLD)

1 NLD

႔ ၄

2

႔ (၂၀၀၈) (၂၀၀၈ ႔ )

၂၀၁၆

Justice Base

႔ ႔

ldquoMyanmarrsquos General Election A New Erardquo (12 November 2015) The Economist

ltwwweconomistcomgt

Nick Cheesman ldquoOpposing the Rule of Law How Myanmarrsquos Courts Make Law and Orderrdquo

(Cambridge University Press United Kingdom 2015) at 117-118

iii

(၁)

႔ (၂)

၄ ႔

(၃) Justice Base

iv

႔ ႔

၄ ( ) ႔

Justice Base

႔ ႔

၅၀ ၃၆ ၁၁၉ ႔

၂၀၅ Justice Base

၁ ၃၆ ၆ ႔ ႔ ၁၆ ႔

႔ ႔

v

႔ ႔

႔ ႔

၂ ၄ ႔

႔ ႔ ႔

႔ ႔ ႔

႔ ႔

၃ ၅၀

႔ ႔

၄ ႔

႔ ႔

၁၅ ၁၅ ႔

၃ ၁ ႔

vi

႔ ႔

၆၀ ႔

႔ ႔

႔ ႔

႔ ႔

႔ ႔

႑ ႔

Justice Base

၁ ႔

၂၀၀၈

႔ ၁၉ ၂၀၁၀

၃ ႔

႔ ႔ ႔ ႔

vii

႔ ၄ ႔

႔ ႔ ၄ ႔

႔ ႔ ႔

႔ ႔

႔ ႔

႔ ႔

၃ ႔

႔ ႔

1

(၁)

၁-၁

1

2

3

၁ 4

5

6

7

၁ 8

1 ( ) (၆) 2 ၁၆

၉ ( ) 3

( ) ၁ ၁ -

4 ( ) ၁ ၆

5 ၉ ၉ 6 ၁၉ 7 8 ၁ httpwwwunionsupremecourtgovmm

2

၁-

9

rdquo 10 International Commission of

Jurists 11

9 (၁) ၁၁( ) ၁၉( ) 10 Yanghee Lee ldquoReport of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in

Myanmarrdquo (18 March 2016) AHRC3171 at 15 11 International Commission of Jurists ldquoRe Implementable Action Plans from the ICJ to the

new Parliament amp Governmentrdquo (3 May 2016) lthttpswwwicjorgwp-

contentuploads201606Myanmar-Recommendation-to-NLD-Gvt-Advocacy-Analysis-Brief-

2016-ENGpdfgt at 5-6 See also International Commission of Jurists ldquoMyanmar Country

Profile prepared by the ICJ Centre for the Independence of Judges and Lawyersrdquo (2014)

High Court (Region or State)

District Courts

Other Courts Constituted by Law (eg Juvenile

Courts)

Courts of Self-Administered Zones

Township Courts

Courts of Self-Administered Divisions

3

၁၉၆

rdquo12

၁၉

၁၉

rdquo 13

၁၉

rdquo 14

rdquo

rdquo 15

rdquo 16

lthttpswwwicjorgwp-contentuploads201406CIJL-Country-Profile-Myanmar-June-

2014pdfgt 12 Myint Zan ldquoJudicial Independence in Burma No March Backwards Towards the Pastrdquo 1

Asian-Pacific Law amp Policy Journal 5 (2000) at pg 13 13 Id at 25

Asian-Pacific Law amp Policy Journal 5 (2000) at pg 25 14 Nick Cheesman ldquoThin Rule of Law or Un-Rule of Law in Myanmarrdquo (2010) 82(4) Pacific Affairs 597 at 612 15 Cheesman above n 2 at 161ndash162 16 International Commission of Jurists ldquoMyanmar Country Profile prepared by the ICJ Centre

4

17

18

19

20

21

for the Independence of Judges and Lawyersrdquo above n 14 at 11 See also Khaing Sape Saw

ldquoTackling Myanmar‟s Corruption Challengerdquo (April 2015) 13 Focus Asia Perspectives and

Analysis 1 17 Lee above n 13 at 15 International Bar Association‟s Human Rights Initiative ldquoThe Rule of

Law in Myanmar Challenges and Prospectsrdquo (International Bar Association London

December 2012) 18 See International Commission of Jurists ldquoRight to Counsel The Independence of Lawyers in

Myanmarrdquo (2013)ltwwwicjorggt at 31 DLA Piper New Perimeter ldquoMyanmar Rule of Law

Assessmentrdquo (March 2013) ltwwwnewperimetercomgt at 36 19 See International Commission of Jurists ldquoRight to Counsel The Independence of Lawyers in

Myanmarrdquo above n 20 Melissa Crouch ldquoRediscovering bdquoLaw‟ in Myanmarrdquo (2014) 23 Pac

Rim L amp Pol‟y J 543 at 545-46 20 Lee above n 13 at 15 21

၁( ) ၁ ( )( ) ( )( )

5

22

23

24

( )

-၁

22 The distinction between substantive law reform and advocacy for formal legality in the

context of ldquocause lawyeringrdquo in Myanmar is drawn in Nick Cheesman and Kyaw Min San

ldquoNot Just Defending Advocating for Law in Myanmarrdquo (2014) 31 Wis Int‟l L J 702 at 704ndash

705 23 See for instance the All Burma Federation of Student Unions‟ boycott of the ldquofailedrdquo court

system ldquoStudents to boycott failed judicial systemrdquo (March 15 2016) Asian Human Rights

Commission Press Release AHRC-STM-033-2016

lthttpwwwahrchkorgruleoflawasianetnewsphpid=AHRC-STM-033-2016gt See also

International Commission of Jurists above n 20 at 14-15 Justice Base ldquoVoices from the

Intersection Women‟s Access to Justice in the Plural Legal System of Myanmarrdquo (2016)

ltwwwjusticebaseorggt at 9 54 and 81 This problem is recognised by Myanmar‟s

government see ldquoMoving Forward to the Rule of Law Strategic Plan 2015ndash2019rdquo (Union

Attorney General‟s Office Nay Pyi Taw 2015) at 11 24 Jeremy Lever ldquoWhy Procedure is More Important than Substantive Lawrdquo 48 Int‟l amp Comp

LQ 285 (1999) at 300 discussing Tom Tyler Who Do People Obey the Law (Yale University

Press New Haven 1990)

6

rdquo 25 (

)

26

27

28

25

Ola Johan Settem ldquoApplications of the bdquoFair Hearing‟ Norm in ECHR Article 6(1) to Civil

Proceedingsrdquo (Springer New York 2016) at 120 See also Human Rights Committee General

Comment No 32 CCPRCGC32 (23 August 2007) at para 28 26 M Cherif Bassiouni ldquoHuman Rights in the Context of Criminal Justice Identifying

International Procedural Protections and Equivalent Protections in National Constitutionsrdquo

(1992ndash1993) 3 Duke J Comp Int‟l L 235 at 274 Anthony C Epstein ldquoOpen Courts Closed

Trialsrdquo (1986) 13 Litigation 23 at 24 27

( )

28 Bassiouni above n 28 at 274

7

rdquo29 30 31

-

၁၉( ) rdquo

၁ ( )

29 Sarosh Zaiwalla ldquoSecret courts justice conducted behind closed doors is no justice at allrdquo (19

August 2013) The Guardian ltwwwtheguardiancomgt 30 Tom Bingham ldquoThe Rule of Lawrdquo (Penguin London 2011) at 96-97 31

ldquodemocracies die behind closed doorsrdquo

see Detroit Free Press v Ashcroft 03 F3d 681 (6th Cir 2002) per Keith J

8

၁ ၉ -

(၁)

rdquo

( )

rdquo

၁၉( )

9

(

)

32

33

34

၁၉၉ ( )

၁၆ ၁၆

Burma Official

Secrets Act 1923 ၁

35

32 See Human Rights Committee n 27 at para 29 UN Commission on Human Rights rdquoThe

Siracusa Principles on the Limitation and Derogation Provisions in the International Covenant

on Civil and Political Rightsrdquo ECN419854 (28 September 1984) para 38(a) 33 Stefan Trechsel ldquoThe Significance of International Human Rights for Criminal Procedurerdquo

(2011) 6 Nat‟l Taiwan Univ Law Rev 1 at 191 (witness reprisal) Mole Nuala and Harby

ldquoThe Right to a Fair Trial A guide to the implementation of Article 6 of the European

Convention on Human Rightsrdquo (2006) at 22 34 UN Commission on Human Rights rdquoThe Siracusa Principles on the Limitation and

Derogation Provisions in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rightsrdquo above n

35 para 38(a) 35 ၁

10

36

37

Justice Base

Justice Base

38

36 ( ) 37

( ၁ ) wwwunionsupremecourtgovmm rdquo ( ) - ၁

38 Human Rights

Committee n 27 at para 29 (ldquo rdquo)

11

၁ - ၁

rdquo

rdquo 39

-

( UDHRrdquo)

40

(International Covenant on Civil and

P R g ( PR))

41

39 Eleven ldquoJudicial process must be independent and transparent says Chief justicerdquo ( ၉ ၁ ) httpwwwelevenmyanmarcomlocaljudicial-process-must-be-independent-and-

transparent-says-chief-justice 40 Universal Declaration of Human Rights GA Res 217A (III) (10 December 1948) art 10 41 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 999 UNTS 171 (opened for signature 16

December 1966 entered into force 23 March 1976) art 14

12

42

(H R g ) PR

rdquo

( )

43

44

PR

42 UN Commission on Human Rights rdquoThe Siracusa Principles on the Limitation and

Derogation Provisions in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rightsrdquo above n

35 para 38(a) 43 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at paras 3 16 and 28 44 At para 29

13

45

UDHR PR UDHR

46 UDHR 47

PR 48

49 UDHR

(UDHR

) UDHR

50

UDHR

ICCPR

51

45 At para 28 46 See ldquoYearbook of the United Nations 1948ndash1949rdquo The Yearbook of the United Nations

ltunyearbookunorggt at 535 47 Malcolm N Shaw International Law (7th ed Cambridge University Press Cambridge 2014)

at 279 48 Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review Myanmar AHRC3113 (23

December 015) at [1434] reaffirming the commitment expressed during the previous

Universal Periodic Review Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review

Myanmar AHRC179 (24 March 2011) at [1046] ( ) see AHRC3113 (23 December 2015) at [14348]

49 See United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner ldquoStatus of Ratificationrdquo

lthttpindicatorsohchrorggt 50 ldquo rdquo Restat 3d of the Foreign Relations Law of the US (1987) at sect

102(2) and (3) 51 Patrick Robinson ldquoThe Right to a Fair Trial in International Law with Specific Reference to

the Work of the ICTYrdquo (2009) 3 Berk J Intl L Publicist 1 at 5 See also Yvonne McDermott

ldquoThe Right to a Fair Trial in International Criminal Lawrdquo (PhD thesis National University of

Ireland Galway July 2013) at 17 and in a related context see ldquoCustomary International

Humanitarian Law Databaserdquo International Committee of the Red Cross lthttpsihl-

databasesicrcorgcustomary-ihlengdocsv1_rul_rule100gt at Rule 100

14

52

- Case Study

( H R g ( HRrdquo))

rdquo

rdquo

53

HR ၆

rdquo

rdquo 54

rdquo

rdquo

၆ 55

၁၉ HR

52 International Commission of Jurists ldquoTrial Observation Manual for Criminal Proceedingsrdquo

(22 July 2009) lthttpswwwicjorgcriminal-trials-and-human-rights-a-manual-on-trial-

observationgt at 84 53 UK Human Rights Act 1998 Schedule I Article 6(1) (emphasis added) 54 Philis v Greece Application No 1275087 1378088 1400388 (27 August 1991) at sect59 55 Ashingdane v the United Kingdom No 822578) (28 May 1985) at sect57

15

HR

( )

-၁

( )

-

၁ -

( )

56

57

56 57

16

( )

(

) (

)

58

( )

58

17

59

Justice Base

Justice

Base

၆ ( ၁

) ၆

၁၁၉ 60

-

59

( )

60

18

61

62

rdquo

61 62

19

( )

rdquo

rdquo

rdquo rdquo

rdquo

rdquo rdquo

rdquo

rdquo

-

rdquo rdquo

( )

20

- -

63 (

)

-

-

63 ၁

Antoni Slodkowski and Soe Zeya Tun ldquoMyanmar

opposition candidate attacked with machetesrdquo (29 October 2015) Reuters

httpwwwreuterscomarticleus-myanmar-election-violence-idUSKCN0SN2GU2015102

21

( )

Diagram 2 A typical courtroom

(

)

Judge

Table

Clerk

Witness

Clerk

Lawyer

Lawyer Complainant

Defendant

Lawyer

22

-

-

64

( )

64 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at [28]

23

( )

65

-

rdquo

rdquo

rdquo 65

24

rdquo

rdquo

( )

(

( ) )

(

)

( )

25

66

(

) 67

68

66 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at para 29 (ldquo rdquo)

67 68 Christina Fink Living Silence in Burma (2nd ed Zed Books London 2009) at 134 as cited in

Fortify Rights ldquoMidnight Intrusion Ending Guest Registration and Household Inspections in

Myanmarrdquo (March 2015) Fortify Rights ltwwwfortifyrightsorggt at 12

26

၁၁

N k 69

-

-

( )

rdquo70

71

(

)

69 Cheesman above n 2 at 101 70 Cheesman n 2 at 117 71 See Part II subpart B above

27

Justice Base

customer

service trainings

Justice Base

( -၁)

၁၉( ) ၁

( )

28

( (၁) )

( - ) (၁)

( )

( - )

( - )

(

)

29

( - )

( )

( -၁)

( - )

( - )

30

31

( )

-

-

-

32

-

-

---------------------------- _________________________

33

( )

- 72 ၁

( )

( )

___________________________________________________________

( )

__________________________________________________ ( )

Yes No ( ______________________________________)

Yes No ___________________________________________________________

Yes No ( ________________________________________)

72

34

၁၁

____________________________________________________ Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No _________________ - Yes No - Yes No - ________________ Yes No ________________ - Yes No

( ______________________________________) ______ _______________________________ Yes No ___________________________________________________ Yes No __________________________________________________

( )

35

Yes No Yes No Yes No

Yes No - - Yes No - Yes No ___________________________ - Yes No -- Yes No - Yes No ( _____________)

၁၆ ( )

Yes No

Yes No

36

၁၉

( )

( )

Yes No Yes No

Yes No ____________

( )

Yes No Yes No

( )

37

- 73 ၁ gt gt၁ gt gt၁ gt +

[____ ____ ] ၆

[ ________________________________)

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

73

38

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

၉ cause list

Yes No

39

Yes No Yes No [ ____________________________________________)

၁၁

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

40

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No ___________________________________________

41

__________________________________________

Yes No [ ____________________________________________]

Yes No Yes No _____________________________________________________]

၁၆

Yes No [ ________________________________________________] Yes No [ ___________________________________________] Yes No

42

[ _________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________]

Yes No [ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________]

Yes No ____________________________________ ________________________________________________________

၁၉

Yes No ( ) _______________________________________________ [ ] Yes No [ ___________________________________________]

Yes No -

43

] - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------___________________________]

Yes No ______________________________________________ _________________________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________ ____________________________________________________----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Yes No _________________________________

44

( ) ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ Yes No

________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________

( )

Yes No __________________________________________________ Yes No -

Yes No _________________________________________________ ___________________

45

_________________________________________

Yes No ___________________________ ______________________

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No

46

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

47

Framing of the charges

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Final Argument

Yes No Yes No

ဍ Yes No

48

Yes No

Yes No Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Comments

49

- 1 2

3

4 5 a b c 6

7

8

[_______________________________]

9

10

Yes No

11

[ ________________________________)

12

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___]

50

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

13

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

14

[ _______________________________________]

1 cause list Yes

51

5

No

16

Yes No Yes No __________________________________________]

17

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

19

Yes No

20

Page 6: JUSTICE BASE - Progressive Voice...Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal 5 (2000), at pg. 25. 14 Nick Cheesman “Thin Rule of Law or Un-Rule of Law in Myanmar?”(2010) 82(4) Pacific

iii

(၁)

႔ (၂)

၄ ႔

(၃) Justice Base

iv

႔ ႔

၄ ( ) ႔

Justice Base

႔ ႔

၅၀ ၃၆ ၁၁၉ ႔

၂၀၅ Justice Base

၁ ၃၆ ၆ ႔ ႔ ၁၆ ႔

႔ ႔

v

႔ ႔

႔ ႔

၂ ၄ ႔

႔ ႔ ႔

႔ ႔ ႔

႔ ႔

၃ ၅၀

႔ ႔

၄ ႔

႔ ႔

၁၅ ၁၅ ႔

၃ ၁ ႔

vi

႔ ႔

၆၀ ႔

႔ ႔

႔ ႔

႔ ႔

႔ ႔

႑ ႔

Justice Base

၁ ႔

၂၀၀၈

႔ ၁၉ ၂၀၁၀

၃ ႔

႔ ႔ ႔ ႔

vii

႔ ၄ ႔

႔ ႔ ၄ ႔

႔ ႔ ႔

႔ ႔

႔ ႔

႔ ႔

၃ ႔

႔ ႔

1

(၁)

၁-၁

1

2

3

၁ 4

5

6

7

၁ 8

1 ( ) (၆) 2 ၁၆

၉ ( ) 3

( ) ၁ ၁ -

4 ( ) ၁ ၆

5 ၉ ၉ 6 ၁၉ 7 8 ၁ httpwwwunionsupremecourtgovmm

2

၁-

9

rdquo 10 International Commission of

Jurists 11

9 (၁) ၁၁( ) ၁၉( ) 10 Yanghee Lee ldquoReport of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in

Myanmarrdquo (18 March 2016) AHRC3171 at 15 11 International Commission of Jurists ldquoRe Implementable Action Plans from the ICJ to the

new Parliament amp Governmentrdquo (3 May 2016) lthttpswwwicjorgwp-

contentuploads201606Myanmar-Recommendation-to-NLD-Gvt-Advocacy-Analysis-Brief-

2016-ENGpdfgt at 5-6 See also International Commission of Jurists ldquoMyanmar Country

Profile prepared by the ICJ Centre for the Independence of Judges and Lawyersrdquo (2014)

High Court (Region or State)

District Courts

Other Courts Constituted by Law (eg Juvenile

Courts)

Courts of Self-Administered Zones

Township Courts

Courts of Self-Administered Divisions

3

၁၉၆

rdquo12

၁၉

၁၉

rdquo 13

၁၉

rdquo 14

rdquo

rdquo 15

rdquo 16

lthttpswwwicjorgwp-contentuploads201406CIJL-Country-Profile-Myanmar-June-

2014pdfgt 12 Myint Zan ldquoJudicial Independence in Burma No March Backwards Towards the Pastrdquo 1

Asian-Pacific Law amp Policy Journal 5 (2000) at pg 13 13 Id at 25

Asian-Pacific Law amp Policy Journal 5 (2000) at pg 25 14 Nick Cheesman ldquoThin Rule of Law or Un-Rule of Law in Myanmarrdquo (2010) 82(4) Pacific Affairs 597 at 612 15 Cheesman above n 2 at 161ndash162 16 International Commission of Jurists ldquoMyanmar Country Profile prepared by the ICJ Centre

4

17

18

19

20

21

for the Independence of Judges and Lawyersrdquo above n 14 at 11 See also Khaing Sape Saw

ldquoTackling Myanmar‟s Corruption Challengerdquo (April 2015) 13 Focus Asia Perspectives and

Analysis 1 17 Lee above n 13 at 15 International Bar Association‟s Human Rights Initiative ldquoThe Rule of

Law in Myanmar Challenges and Prospectsrdquo (International Bar Association London

December 2012) 18 See International Commission of Jurists ldquoRight to Counsel The Independence of Lawyers in

Myanmarrdquo (2013)ltwwwicjorggt at 31 DLA Piper New Perimeter ldquoMyanmar Rule of Law

Assessmentrdquo (March 2013) ltwwwnewperimetercomgt at 36 19 See International Commission of Jurists ldquoRight to Counsel The Independence of Lawyers in

Myanmarrdquo above n 20 Melissa Crouch ldquoRediscovering bdquoLaw‟ in Myanmarrdquo (2014) 23 Pac

Rim L amp Pol‟y J 543 at 545-46 20 Lee above n 13 at 15 21

၁( ) ၁ ( )( ) ( )( )

5

22

23

24

( )

-၁

22 The distinction between substantive law reform and advocacy for formal legality in the

context of ldquocause lawyeringrdquo in Myanmar is drawn in Nick Cheesman and Kyaw Min San

ldquoNot Just Defending Advocating for Law in Myanmarrdquo (2014) 31 Wis Int‟l L J 702 at 704ndash

705 23 See for instance the All Burma Federation of Student Unions‟ boycott of the ldquofailedrdquo court

system ldquoStudents to boycott failed judicial systemrdquo (March 15 2016) Asian Human Rights

Commission Press Release AHRC-STM-033-2016

lthttpwwwahrchkorgruleoflawasianetnewsphpid=AHRC-STM-033-2016gt See also

International Commission of Jurists above n 20 at 14-15 Justice Base ldquoVoices from the

Intersection Women‟s Access to Justice in the Plural Legal System of Myanmarrdquo (2016)

ltwwwjusticebaseorggt at 9 54 and 81 This problem is recognised by Myanmar‟s

government see ldquoMoving Forward to the Rule of Law Strategic Plan 2015ndash2019rdquo (Union

Attorney General‟s Office Nay Pyi Taw 2015) at 11 24 Jeremy Lever ldquoWhy Procedure is More Important than Substantive Lawrdquo 48 Int‟l amp Comp

LQ 285 (1999) at 300 discussing Tom Tyler Who Do People Obey the Law (Yale University

Press New Haven 1990)

6

rdquo 25 (

)

26

27

28

25

Ola Johan Settem ldquoApplications of the bdquoFair Hearing‟ Norm in ECHR Article 6(1) to Civil

Proceedingsrdquo (Springer New York 2016) at 120 See also Human Rights Committee General

Comment No 32 CCPRCGC32 (23 August 2007) at para 28 26 M Cherif Bassiouni ldquoHuman Rights in the Context of Criminal Justice Identifying

International Procedural Protections and Equivalent Protections in National Constitutionsrdquo

(1992ndash1993) 3 Duke J Comp Int‟l L 235 at 274 Anthony C Epstein ldquoOpen Courts Closed

Trialsrdquo (1986) 13 Litigation 23 at 24 27

( )

28 Bassiouni above n 28 at 274

7

rdquo29 30 31

-

၁၉( ) rdquo

၁ ( )

29 Sarosh Zaiwalla ldquoSecret courts justice conducted behind closed doors is no justice at allrdquo (19

August 2013) The Guardian ltwwwtheguardiancomgt 30 Tom Bingham ldquoThe Rule of Lawrdquo (Penguin London 2011) at 96-97 31

ldquodemocracies die behind closed doorsrdquo

see Detroit Free Press v Ashcroft 03 F3d 681 (6th Cir 2002) per Keith J

8

၁ ၉ -

(၁)

rdquo

( )

rdquo

၁၉( )

9

(

)

32

33

34

၁၉၉ ( )

၁၆ ၁၆

Burma Official

Secrets Act 1923 ၁

35

32 See Human Rights Committee n 27 at para 29 UN Commission on Human Rights rdquoThe

Siracusa Principles on the Limitation and Derogation Provisions in the International Covenant

on Civil and Political Rightsrdquo ECN419854 (28 September 1984) para 38(a) 33 Stefan Trechsel ldquoThe Significance of International Human Rights for Criminal Procedurerdquo

(2011) 6 Nat‟l Taiwan Univ Law Rev 1 at 191 (witness reprisal) Mole Nuala and Harby

ldquoThe Right to a Fair Trial A guide to the implementation of Article 6 of the European

Convention on Human Rightsrdquo (2006) at 22 34 UN Commission on Human Rights rdquoThe Siracusa Principles on the Limitation and

Derogation Provisions in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rightsrdquo above n

35 para 38(a) 35 ၁

10

36

37

Justice Base

Justice Base

38

36 ( ) 37

( ၁ ) wwwunionsupremecourtgovmm rdquo ( ) - ၁

38 Human Rights

Committee n 27 at para 29 (ldquo rdquo)

11

၁ - ၁

rdquo

rdquo 39

-

( UDHRrdquo)

40

(International Covenant on Civil and

P R g ( PR))

41

39 Eleven ldquoJudicial process must be independent and transparent says Chief justicerdquo ( ၉ ၁ ) httpwwwelevenmyanmarcomlocaljudicial-process-must-be-independent-and-

transparent-says-chief-justice 40 Universal Declaration of Human Rights GA Res 217A (III) (10 December 1948) art 10 41 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 999 UNTS 171 (opened for signature 16

December 1966 entered into force 23 March 1976) art 14

12

42

(H R g ) PR

rdquo

( )

43

44

PR

42 UN Commission on Human Rights rdquoThe Siracusa Principles on the Limitation and

Derogation Provisions in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rightsrdquo above n

35 para 38(a) 43 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at paras 3 16 and 28 44 At para 29

13

45

UDHR PR UDHR

46 UDHR 47

PR 48

49 UDHR

(UDHR

) UDHR

50

UDHR

ICCPR

51

45 At para 28 46 See ldquoYearbook of the United Nations 1948ndash1949rdquo The Yearbook of the United Nations

ltunyearbookunorggt at 535 47 Malcolm N Shaw International Law (7th ed Cambridge University Press Cambridge 2014)

at 279 48 Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review Myanmar AHRC3113 (23

December 015) at [1434] reaffirming the commitment expressed during the previous

Universal Periodic Review Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review

Myanmar AHRC179 (24 March 2011) at [1046] ( ) see AHRC3113 (23 December 2015) at [14348]

49 See United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner ldquoStatus of Ratificationrdquo

lthttpindicatorsohchrorggt 50 ldquo rdquo Restat 3d of the Foreign Relations Law of the US (1987) at sect

102(2) and (3) 51 Patrick Robinson ldquoThe Right to a Fair Trial in International Law with Specific Reference to

the Work of the ICTYrdquo (2009) 3 Berk J Intl L Publicist 1 at 5 See also Yvonne McDermott

ldquoThe Right to a Fair Trial in International Criminal Lawrdquo (PhD thesis National University of

Ireland Galway July 2013) at 17 and in a related context see ldquoCustomary International

Humanitarian Law Databaserdquo International Committee of the Red Cross lthttpsihl-

databasesicrcorgcustomary-ihlengdocsv1_rul_rule100gt at Rule 100

14

52

- Case Study

( H R g ( HRrdquo))

rdquo

rdquo

53

HR ၆

rdquo

rdquo 54

rdquo

rdquo

၆ 55

၁၉ HR

52 International Commission of Jurists ldquoTrial Observation Manual for Criminal Proceedingsrdquo

(22 July 2009) lthttpswwwicjorgcriminal-trials-and-human-rights-a-manual-on-trial-

observationgt at 84 53 UK Human Rights Act 1998 Schedule I Article 6(1) (emphasis added) 54 Philis v Greece Application No 1275087 1378088 1400388 (27 August 1991) at sect59 55 Ashingdane v the United Kingdom No 822578) (28 May 1985) at sect57

15

HR

( )

-၁

( )

-

၁ -

( )

56

57

56 57

16

( )

(

) (

)

58

( )

58

17

59

Justice Base

Justice

Base

၆ ( ၁

) ၆

၁၁၉ 60

-

59

( )

60

18

61

62

rdquo

61 62

19

( )

rdquo

rdquo

rdquo rdquo

rdquo

rdquo rdquo

rdquo

rdquo

-

rdquo rdquo

( )

20

- -

63 (

)

-

-

63 ၁

Antoni Slodkowski and Soe Zeya Tun ldquoMyanmar

opposition candidate attacked with machetesrdquo (29 October 2015) Reuters

httpwwwreuterscomarticleus-myanmar-election-violence-idUSKCN0SN2GU2015102

21

( )

Diagram 2 A typical courtroom

(

)

Judge

Table

Clerk

Witness

Clerk

Lawyer

Lawyer Complainant

Defendant

Lawyer

22

-

-

64

( )

64 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at [28]

23

( )

65

-

rdquo

rdquo

rdquo 65

24

rdquo

rdquo

( )

(

( ) )

(

)

( )

25

66

(

) 67

68

66 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at para 29 (ldquo rdquo)

67 68 Christina Fink Living Silence in Burma (2nd ed Zed Books London 2009) at 134 as cited in

Fortify Rights ldquoMidnight Intrusion Ending Guest Registration and Household Inspections in

Myanmarrdquo (March 2015) Fortify Rights ltwwwfortifyrightsorggt at 12

26

၁၁

N k 69

-

-

( )

rdquo70

71

(

)

69 Cheesman above n 2 at 101 70 Cheesman n 2 at 117 71 See Part II subpart B above

27

Justice Base

customer

service trainings

Justice Base

( -၁)

၁၉( ) ၁

( )

28

( (၁) )

( - ) (၁)

( )

( - )

( - )

(

)

29

( - )

( )

( -၁)

( - )

( - )

30

31

( )

-

-

-

32

-

-

---------------------------- _________________________

33

( )

- 72 ၁

( )

( )

___________________________________________________________

( )

__________________________________________________ ( )

Yes No ( ______________________________________)

Yes No ___________________________________________________________

Yes No ( ________________________________________)

72

34

၁၁

____________________________________________________ Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No _________________ - Yes No - Yes No - ________________ Yes No ________________ - Yes No

( ______________________________________) ______ _______________________________ Yes No ___________________________________________________ Yes No __________________________________________________

( )

35

Yes No Yes No Yes No

Yes No - - Yes No - Yes No ___________________________ - Yes No -- Yes No - Yes No ( _____________)

၁၆ ( )

Yes No

Yes No

36

၁၉

( )

( )

Yes No Yes No

Yes No ____________

( )

Yes No Yes No

( )

37

- 73 ၁ gt gt၁ gt gt၁ gt +

[____ ____ ] ၆

[ ________________________________)

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

73

38

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

၉ cause list

Yes No

39

Yes No Yes No [ ____________________________________________)

၁၁

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

40

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No ___________________________________________

41

__________________________________________

Yes No [ ____________________________________________]

Yes No Yes No _____________________________________________________]

၁၆

Yes No [ ________________________________________________] Yes No [ ___________________________________________] Yes No

42

[ _________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________]

Yes No [ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________]

Yes No ____________________________________ ________________________________________________________

၁၉

Yes No ( ) _______________________________________________ [ ] Yes No [ ___________________________________________]

Yes No -

43

] - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------___________________________]

Yes No ______________________________________________ _________________________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________ ____________________________________________________----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Yes No _________________________________

44

( ) ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ Yes No

________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________

( )

Yes No __________________________________________________ Yes No -

Yes No _________________________________________________ ___________________

45

_________________________________________

Yes No ___________________________ ______________________

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No

46

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

47

Framing of the charges

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Final Argument

Yes No Yes No

ဍ Yes No

48

Yes No

Yes No Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Comments

49

- 1 2

3

4 5 a b c 6

7

8

[_______________________________]

9

10

Yes No

11

[ ________________________________)

12

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___]

50

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

13

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

14

[ _______________________________________]

1 cause list Yes

51

5

No

16

Yes No Yes No __________________________________________]

17

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

19

Yes No

20

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iv

႔ ႔

၄ ( ) ႔

Justice Base

႔ ႔

၅၀ ၃၆ ၁၁၉ ႔

၂၀၅ Justice Base

၁ ၃၆ ၆ ႔ ႔ ၁၆ ႔

႔ ႔

v

႔ ႔

႔ ႔

၂ ၄ ႔

႔ ႔ ႔

႔ ႔ ႔

႔ ႔

၃ ၅၀

႔ ႔

၄ ႔

႔ ႔

၁၅ ၁၅ ႔

၃ ၁ ႔

vi

႔ ႔

၆၀ ႔

႔ ႔

႔ ႔

႔ ႔

႔ ႔

႑ ႔

Justice Base

၁ ႔

၂၀၀၈

႔ ၁၉ ၂၀၁၀

၃ ႔

႔ ႔ ႔ ႔

vii

႔ ၄ ႔

႔ ႔ ၄ ႔

႔ ႔ ႔

႔ ႔

႔ ႔

႔ ႔

၃ ႔

႔ ႔

1

(၁)

၁-၁

1

2

3

၁ 4

5

6

7

၁ 8

1 ( ) (၆) 2 ၁၆

၉ ( ) 3

( ) ၁ ၁ -

4 ( ) ၁ ၆

5 ၉ ၉ 6 ၁၉ 7 8 ၁ httpwwwunionsupremecourtgovmm

2

၁-

9

rdquo 10 International Commission of

Jurists 11

9 (၁) ၁၁( ) ၁၉( ) 10 Yanghee Lee ldquoReport of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in

Myanmarrdquo (18 March 2016) AHRC3171 at 15 11 International Commission of Jurists ldquoRe Implementable Action Plans from the ICJ to the

new Parliament amp Governmentrdquo (3 May 2016) lthttpswwwicjorgwp-

contentuploads201606Myanmar-Recommendation-to-NLD-Gvt-Advocacy-Analysis-Brief-

2016-ENGpdfgt at 5-6 See also International Commission of Jurists ldquoMyanmar Country

Profile prepared by the ICJ Centre for the Independence of Judges and Lawyersrdquo (2014)

High Court (Region or State)

District Courts

Other Courts Constituted by Law (eg Juvenile

Courts)

Courts of Self-Administered Zones

Township Courts

Courts of Self-Administered Divisions

3

၁၉၆

rdquo12

၁၉

၁၉

rdquo 13

၁၉

rdquo 14

rdquo

rdquo 15

rdquo 16

lthttpswwwicjorgwp-contentuploads201406CIJL-Country-Profile-Myanmar-June-

2014pdfgt 12 Myint Zan ldquoJudicial Independence in Burma No March Backwards Towards the Pastrdquo 1

Asian-Pacific Law amp Policy Journal 5 (2000) at pg 13 13 Id at 25

Asian-Pacific Law amp Policy Journal 5 (2000) at pg 25 14 Nick Cheesman ldquoThin Rule of Law or Un-Rule of Law in Myanmarrdquo (2010) 82(4) Pacific Affairs 597 at 612 15 Cheesman above n 2 at 161ndash162 16 International Commission of Jurists ldquoMyanmar Country Profile prepared by the ICJ Centre

4

17

18

19

20

21

for the Independence of Judges and Lawyersrdquo above n 14 at 11 See also Khaing Sape Saw

ldquoTackling Myanmar‟s Corruption Challengerdquo (April 2015) 13 Focus Asia Perspectives and

Analysis 1 17 Lee above n 13 at 15 International Bar Association‟s Human Rights Initiative ldquoThe Rule of

Law in Myanmar Challenges and Prospectsrdquo (International Bar Association London

December 2012) 18 See International Commission of Jurists ldquoRight to Counsel The Independence of Lawyers in

Myanmarrdquo (2013)ltwwwicjorggt at 31 DLA Piper New Perimeter ldquoMyanmar Rule of Law

Assessmentrdquo (March 2013) ltwwwnewperimetercomgt at 36 19 See International Commission of Jurists ldquoRight to Counsel The Independence of Lawyers in

Myanmarrdquo above n 20 Melissa Crouch ldquoRediscovering bdquoLaw‟ in Myanmarrdquo (2014) 23 Pac

Rim L amp Pol‟y J 543 at 545-46 20 Lee above n 13 at 15 21

၁( ) ၁ ( )( ) ( )( )

5

22

23

24

( )

-၁

22 The distinction between substantive law reform and advocacy for formal legality in the

context of ldquocause lawyeringrdquo in Myanmar is drawn in Nick Cheesman and Kyaw Min San

ldquoNot Just Defending Advocating for Law in Myanmarrdquo (2014) 31 Wis Int‟l L J 702 at 704ndash

705 23 See for instance the All Burma Federation of Student Unions‟ boycott of the ldquofailedrdquo court

system ldquoStudents to boycott failed judicial systemrdquo (March 15 2016) Asian Human Rights

Commission Press Release AHRC-STM-033-2016

lthttpwwwahrchkorgruleoflawasianetnewsphpid=AHRC-STM-033-2016gt See also

International Commission of Jurists above n 20 at 14-15 Justice Base ldquoVoices from the

Intersection Women‟s Access to Justice in the Plural Legal System of Myanmarrdquo (2016)

ltwwwjusticebaseorggt at 9 54 and 81 This problem is recognised by Myanmar‟s

government see ldquoMoving Forward to the Rule of Law Strategic Plan 2015ndash2019rdquo (Union

Attorney General‟s Office Nay Pyi Taw 2015) at 11 24 Jeremy Lever ldquoWhy Procedure is More Important than Substantive Lawrdquo 48 Int‟l amp Comp

LQ 285 (1999) at 300 discussing Tom Tyler Who Do People Obey the Law (Yale University

Press New Haven 1990)

6

rdquo 25 (

)

26

27

28

25

Ola Johan Settem ldquoApplications of the bdquoFair Hearing‟ Norm in ECHR Article 6(1) to Civil

Proceedingsrdquo (Springer New York 2016) at 120 See also Human Rights Committee General

Comment No 32 CCPRCGC32 (23 August 2007) at para 28 26 M Cherif Bassiouni ldquoHuman Rights in the Context of Criminal Justice Identifying

International Procedural Protections and Equivalent Protections in National Constitutionsrdquo

(1992ndash1993) 3 Duke J Comp Int‟l L 235 at 274 Anthony C Epstein ldquoOpen Courts Closed

Trialsrdquo (1986) 13 Litigation 23 at 24 27

( )

28 Bassiouni above n 28 at 274

7

rdquo29 30 31

-

၁၉( ) rdquo

၁ ( )

29 Sarosh Zaiwalla ldquoSecret courts justice conducted behind closed doors is no justice at allrdquo (19

August 2013) The Guardian ltwwwtheguardiancomgt 30 Tom Bingham ldquoThe Rule of Lawrdquo (Penguin London 2011) at 96-97 31

ldquodemocracies die behind closed doorsrdquo

see Detroit Free Press v Ashcroft 03 F3d 681 (6th Cir 2002) per Keith J

8

၁ ၉ -

(၁)

rdquo

( )

rdquo

၁၉( )

9

(

)

32

33

34

၁၉၉ ( )

၁၆ ၁၆

Burma Official

Secrets Act 1923 ၁

35

32 See Human Rights Committee n 27 at para 29 UN Commission on Human Rights rdquoThe

Siracusa Principles on the Limitation and Derogation Provisions in the International Covenant

on Civil and Political Rightsrdquo ECN419854 (28 September 1984) para 38(a) 33 Stefan Trechsel ldquoThe Significance of International Human Rights for Criminal Procedurerdquo

(2011) 6 Nat‟l Taiwan Univ Law Rev 1 at 191 (witness reprisal) Mole Nuala and Harby

ldquoThe Right to a Fair Trial A guide to the implementation of Article 6 of the European

Convention on Human Rightsrdquo (2006) at 22 34 UN Commission on Human Rights rdquoThe Siracusa Principles on the Limitation and

Derogation Provisions in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rightsrdquo above n

35 para 38(a) 35 ၁

10

36

37

Justice Base

Justice Base

38

36 ( ) 37

( ၁ ) wwwunionsupremecourtgovmm rdquo ( ) - ၁

38 Human Rights

Committee n 27 at para 29 (ldquo rdquo)

11

၁ - ၁

rdquo

rdquo 39

-

( UDHRrdquo)

40

(International Covenant on Civil and

P R g ( PR))

41

39 Eleven ldquoJudicial process must be independent and transparent says Chief justicerdquo ( ၉ ၁ ) httpwwwelevenmyanmarcomlocaljudicial-process-must-be-independent-and-

transparent-says-chief-justice 40 Universal Declaration of Human Rights GA Res 217A (III) (10 December 1948) art 10 41 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 999 UNTS 171 (opened for signature 16

December 1966 entered into force 23 March 1976) art 14

12

42

(H R g ) PR

rdquo

( )

43

44

PR

42 UN Commission on Human Rights rdquoThe Siracusa Principles on the Limitation and

Derogation Provisions in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rightsrdquo above n

35 para 38(a) 43 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at paras 3 16 and 28 44 At para 29

13

45

UDHR PR UDHR

46 UDHR 47

PR 48

49 UDHR

(UDHR

) UDHR

50

UDHR

ICCPR

51

45 At para 28 46 See ldquoYearbook of the United Nations 1948ndash1949rdquo The Yearbook of the United Nations

ltunyearbookunorggt at 535 47 Malcolm N Shaw International Law (7th ed Cambridge University Press Cambridge 2014)

at 279 48 Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review Myanmar AHRC3113 (23

December 015) at [1434] reaffirming the commitment expressed during the previous

Universal Periodic Review Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review

Myanmar AHRC179 (24 March 2011) at [1046] ( ) see AHRC3113 (23 December 2015) at [14348]

49 See United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner ldquoStatus of Ratificationrdquo

lthttpindicatorsohchrorggt 50 ldquo rdquo Restat 3d of the Foreign Relations Law of the US (1987) at sect

102(2) and (3) 51 Patrick Robinson ldquoThe Right to a Fair Trial in International Law with Specific Reference to

the Work of the ICTYrdquo (2009) 3 Berk J Intl L Publicist 1 at 5 See also Yvonne McDermott

ldquoThe Right to a Fair Trial in International Criminal Lawrdquo (PhD thesis National University of

Ireland Galway July 2013) at 17 and in a related context see ldquoCustomary International

Humanitarian Law Databaserdquo International Committee of the Red Cross lthttpsihl-

databasesicrcorgcustomary-ihlengdocsv1_rul_rule100gt at Rule 100

14

52

- Case Study

( H R g ( HRrdquo))

rdquo

rdquo

53

HR ၆

rdquo

rdquo 54

rdquo

rdquo

၆ 55

၁၉ HR

52 International Commission of Jurists ldquoTrial Observation Manual for Criminal Proceedingsrdquo

(22 July 2009) lthttpswwwicjorgcriminal-trials-and-human-rights-a-manual-on-trial-

observationgt at 84 53 UK Human Rights Act 1998 Schedule I Article 6(1) (emphasis added) 54 Philis v Greece Application No 1275087 1378088 1400388 (27 August 1991) at sect59 55 Ashingdane v the United Kingdom No 822578) (28 May 1985) at sect57

15

HR

( )

-၁

( )

-

၁ -

( )

56

57

56 57

16

( )

(

) (

)

58

( )

58

17

59

Justice Base

Justice

Base

၆ ( ၁

) ၆

၁၁၉ 60

-

59

( )

60

18

61

62

rdquo

61 62

19

( )

rdquo

rdquo

rdquo rdquo

rdquo

rdquo rdquo

rdquo

rdquo

-

rdquo rdquo

( )

20

- -

63 (

)

-

-

63 ၁

Antoni Slodkowski and Soe Zeya Tun ldquoMyanmar

opposition candidate attacked with machetesrdquo (29 October 2015) Reuters

httpwwwreuterscomarticleus-myanmar-election-violence-idUSKCN0SN2GU2015102

21

( )

Diagram 2 A typical courtroom

(

)

Judge

Table

Clerk

Witness

Clerk

Lawyer

Lawyer Complainant

Defendant

Lawyer

22

-

-

64

( )

64 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at [28]

23

( )

65

-

rdquo

rdquo

rdquo 65

24

rdquo

rdquo

( )

(

( ) )

(

)

( )

25

66

(

) 67

68

66 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at para 29 (ldquo rdquo)

67 68 Christina Fink Living Silence in Burma (2nd ed Zed Books London 2009) at 134 as cited in

Fortify Rights ldquoMidnight Intrusion Ending Guest Registration and Household Inspections in

Myanmarrdquo (March 2015) Fortify Rights ltwwwfortifyrightsorggt at 12

26

၁၁

N k 69

-

-

( )

rdquo70

71

(

)

69 Cheesman above n 2 at 101 70 Cheesman n 2 at 117 71 See Part II subpart B above

27

Justice Base

customer

service trainings

Justice Base

( -၁)

၁၉( ) ၁

( )

28

( (၁) )

( - ) (၁)

( )

( - )

( - )

(

)

29

( - )

( )

( -၁)

( - )

( - )

30

31

( )

-

-

-

32

-

-

---------------------------- _________________________

33

( )

- 72 ၁

( )

( )

___________________________________________________________

( )

__________________________________________________ ( )

Yes No ( ______________________________________)

Yes No ___________________________________________________________

Yes No ( ________________________________________)

72

34

၁၁

____________________________________________________ Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No _________________ - Yes No - Yes No - ________________ Yes No ________________ - Yes No

( ______________________________________) ______ _______________________________ Yes No ___________________________________________________ Yes No __________________________________________________

( )

35

Yes No Yes No Yes No

Yes No - - Yes No - Yes No ___________________________ - Yes No -- Yes No - Yes No ( _____________)

၁၆ ( )

Yes No

Yes No

36

၁၉

( )

( )

Yes No Yes No

Yes No ____________

( )

Yes No Yes No

( )

37

- 73 ၁ gt gt၁ gt gt၁ gt +

[____ ____ ] ၆

[ ________________________________)

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

73

38

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

၉ cause list

Yes No

39

Yes No Yes No [ ____________________________________________)

၁၁

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

40

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No ___________________________________________

41

__________________________________________

Yes No [ ____________________________________________]

Yes No Yes No _____________________________________________________]

၁၆

Yes No [ ________________________________________________] Yes No [ ___________________________________________] Yes No

42

[ _________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________]

Yes No [ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________]

Yes No ____________________________________ ________________________________________________________

၁၉

Yes No ( ) _______________________________________________ [ ] Yes No [ ___________________________________________]

Yes No -

43

] - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------___________________________]

Yes No ______________________________________________ _________________________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________ ____________________________________________________----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Yes No _________________________________

44

( ) ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ Yes No

________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________

( )

Yes No __________________________________________________ Yes No -

Yes No _________________________________________________ ___________________

45

_________________________________________

Yes No ___________________________ ______________________

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No

46

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

47

Framing of the charges

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Final Argument

Yes No Yes No

ဍ Yes No

48

Yes No

Yes No Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Comments

49

- 1 2

3

4 5 a b c 6

7

8

[_______________________________]

9

10

Yes No

11

[ ________________________________)

12

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___]

50

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

13

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

14

[ _______________________________________]

1 cause list Yes

51

5

No

16

Yes No Yes No __________________________________________]

17

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

19

Yes No

20

Page 8: JUSTICE BASE - Progressive Voice...Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal 5 (2000), at pg. 25. 14 Nick Cheesman “Thin Rule of Law or Un-Rule of Law in Myanmar?”(2010) 82(4) Pacific

v

႔ ႔

႔ ႔

၂ ၄ ႔

႔ ႔ ႔

႔ ႔ ႔

႔ ႔

၃ ၅၀

႔ ႔

၄ ႔

႔ ႔

၁၅ ၁၅ ႔

၃ ၁ ႔

vi

႔ ႔

၆၀ ႔

႔ ႔

႔ ႔

႔ ႔

႔ ႔

႑ ႔

Justice Base

၁ ႔

၂၀၀၈

႔ ၁၉ ၂၀၁၀

၃ ႔

႔ ႔ ႔ ႔

vii

႔ ၄ ႔

႔ ႔ ၄ ႔

႔ ႔ ႔

႔ ႔

႔ ႔

႔ ႔

၃ ႔

႔ ႔

1

(၁)

၁-၁

1

2

3

၁ 4

5

6

7

၁ 8

1 ( ) (၆) 2 ၁၆

၉ ( ) 3

( ) ၁ ၁ -

4 ( ) ၁ ၆

5 ၉ ၉ 6 ၁၉ 7 8 ၁ httpwwwunionsupremecourtgovmm

2

၁-

9

rdquo 10 International Commission of

Jurists 11

9 (၁) ၁၁( ) ၁၉( ) 10 Yanghee Lee ldquoReport of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in

Myanmarrdquo (18 March 2016) AHRC3171 at 15 11 International Commission of Jurists ldquoRe Implementable Action Plans from the ICJ to the

new Parliament amp Governmentrdquo (3 May 2016) lthttpswwwicjorgwp-

contentuploads201606Myanmar-Recommendation-to-NLD-Gvt-Advocacy-Analysis-Brief-

2016-ENGpdfgt at 5-6 See also International Commission of Jurists ldquoMyanmar Country

Profile prepared by the ICJ Centre for the Independence of Judges and Lawyersrdquo (2014)

High Court (Region or State)

District Courts

Other Courts Constituted by Law (eg Juvenile

Courts)

Courts of Self-Administered Zones

Township Courts

Courts of Self-Administered Divisions

3

၁၉၆

rdquo12

၁၉

၁၉

rdquo 13

၁၉

rdquo 14

rdquo

rdquo 15

rdquo 16

lthttpswwwicjorgwp-contentuploads201406CIJL-Country-Profile-Myanmar-June-

2014pdfgt 12 Myint Zan ldquoJudicial Independence in Burma No March Backwards Towards the Pastrdquo 1

Asian-Pacific Law amp Policy Journal 5 (2000) at pg 13 13 Id at 25

Asian-Pacific Law amp Policy Journal 5 (2000) at pg 25 14 Nick Cheesman ldquoThin Rule of Law or Un-Rule of Law in Myanmarrdquo (2010) 82(4) Pacific Affairs 597 at 612 15 Cheesman above n 2 at 161ndash162 16 International Commission of Jurists ldquoMyanmar Country Profile prepared by the ICJ Centre

4

17

18

19

20

21

for the Independence of Judges and Lawyersrdquo above n 14 at 11 See also Khaing Sape Saw

ldquoTackling Myanmar‟s Corruption Challengerdquo (April 2015) 13 Focus Asia Perspectives and

Analysis 1 17 Lee above n 13 at 15 International Bar Association‟s Human Rights Initiative ldquoThe Rule of

Law in Myanmar Challenges and Prospectsrdquo (International Bar Association London

December 2012) 18 See International Commission of Jurists ldquoRight to Counsel The Independence of Lawyers in

Myanmarrdquo (2013)ltwwwicjorggt at 31 DLA Piper New Perimeter ldquoMyanmar Rule of Law

Assessmentrdquo (March 2013) ltwwwnewperimetercomgt at 36 19 See International Commission of Jurists ldquoRight to Counsel The Independence of Lawyers in

Myanmarrdquo above n 20 Melissa Crouch ldquoRediscovering bdquoLaw‟ in Myanmarrdquo (2014) 23 Pac

Rim L amp Pol‟y J 543 at 545-46 20 Lee above n 13 at 15 21

၁( ) ၁ ( )( ) ( )( )

5

22

23

24

( )

-၁

22 The distinction between substantive law reform and advocacy for formal legality in the

context of ldquocause lawyeringrdquo in Myanmar is drawn in Nick Cheesman and Kyaw Min San

ldquoNot Just Defending Advocating for Law in Myanmarrdquo (2014) 31 Wis Int‟l L J 702 at 704ndash

705 23 See for instance the All Burma Federation of Student Unions‟ boycott of the ldquofailedrdquo court

system ldquoStudents to boycott failed judicial systemrdquo (March 15 2016) Asian Human Rights

Commission Press Release AHRC-STM-033-2016

lthttpwwwahrchkorgruleoflawasianetnewsphpid=AHRC-STM-033-2016gt See also

International Commission of Jurists above n 20 at 14-15 Justice Base ldquoVoices from the

Intersection Women‟s Access to Justice in the Plural Legal System of Myanmarrdquo (2016)

ltwwwjusticebaseorggt at 9 54 and 81 This problem is recognised by Myanmar‟s

government see ldquoMoving Forward to the Rule of Law Strategic Plan 2015ndash2019rdquo (Union

Attorney General‟s Office Nay Pyi Taw 2015) at 11 24 Jeremy Lever ldquoWhy Procedure is More Important than Substantive Lawrdquo 48 Int‟l amp Comp

LQ 285 (1999) at 300 discussing Tom Tyler Who Do People Obey the Law (Yale University

Press New Haven 1990)

6

rdquo 25 (

)

26

27

28

25

Ola Johan Settem ldquoApplications of the bdquoFair Hearing‟ Norm in ECHR Article 6(1) to Civil

Proceedingsrdquo (Springer New York 2016) at 120 See also Human Rights Committee General

Comment No 32 CCPRCGC32 (23 August 2007) at para 28 26 M Cherif Bassiouni ldquoHuman Rights in the Context of Criminal Justice Identifying

International Procedural Protections and Equivalent Protections in National Constitutionsrdquo

(1992ndash1993) 3 Duke J Comp Int‟l L 235 at 274 Anthony C Epstein ldquoOpen Courts Closed

Trialsrdquo (1986) 13 Litigation 23 at 24 27

( )

28 Bassiouni above n 28 at 274

7

rdquo29 30 31

-

၁၉( ) rdquo

၁ ( )

29 Sarosh Zaiwalla ldquoSecret courts justice conducted behind closed doors is no justice at allrdquo (19

August 2013) The Guardian ltwwwtheguardiancomgt 30 Tom Bingham ldquoThe Rule of Lawrdquo (Penguin London 2011) at 96-97 31

ldquodemocracies die behind closed doorsrdquo

see Detroit Free Press v Ashcroft 03 F3d 681 (6th Cir 2002) per Keith J

8

၁ ၉ -

(၁)

rdquo

( )

rdquo

၁၉( )

9

(

)

32

33

34

၁၉၉ ( )

၁၆ ၁၆

Burma Official

Secrets Act 1923 ၁

35

32 See Human Rights Committee n 27 at para 29 UN Commission on Human Rights rdquoThe

Siracusa Principles on the Limitation and Derogation Provisions in the International Covenant

on Civil and Political Rightsrdquo ECN419854 (28 September 1984) para 38(a) 33 Stefan Trechsel ldquoThe Significance of International Human Rights for Criminal Procedurerdquo

(2011) 6 Nat‟l Taiwan Univ Law Rev 1 at 191 (witness reprisal) Mole Nuala and Harby

ldquoThe Right to a Fair Trial A guide to the implementation of Article 6 of the European

Convention on Human Rightsrdquo (2006) at 22 34 UN Commission on Human Rights rdquoThe Siracusa Principles on the Limitation and

Derogation Provisions in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rightsrdquo above n

35 para 38(a) 35 ၁

10

36

37

Justice Base

Justice Base

38

36 ( ) 37

( ၁ ) wwwunionsupremecourtgovmm rdquo ( ) - ၁

38 Human Rights

Committee n 27 at para 29 (ldquo rdquo)

11

၁ - ၁

rdquo

rdquo 39

-

( UDHRrdquo)

40

(International Covenant on Civil and

P R g ( PR))

41

39 Eleven ldquoJudicial process must be independent and transparent says Chief justicerdquo ( ၉ ၁ ) httpwwwelevenmyanmarcomlocaljudicial-process-must-be-independent-and-

transparent-says-chief-justice 40 Universal Declaration of Human Rights GA Res 217A (III) (10 December 1948) art 10 41 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 999 UNTS 171 (opened for signature 16

December 1966 entered into force 23 March 1976) art 14

12

42

(H R g ) PR

rdquo

( )

43

44

PR

42 UN Commission on Human Rights rdquoThe Siracusa Principles on the Limitation and

Derogation Provisions in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rightsrdquo above n

35 para 38(a) 43 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at paras 3 16 and 28 44 At para 29

13

45

UDHR PR UDHR

46 UDHR 47

PR 48

49 UDHR

(UDHR

) UDHR

50

UDHR

ICCPR

51

45 At para 28 46 See ldquoYearbook of the United Nations 1948ndash1949rdquo The Yearbook of the United Nations

ltunyearbookunorggt at 535 47 Malcolm N Shaw International Law (7th ed Cambridge University Press Cambridge 2014)

at 279 48 Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review Myanmar AHRC3113 (23

December 015) at [1434] reaffirming the commitment expressed during the previous

Universal Periodic Review Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review

Myanmar AHRC179 (24 March 2011) at [1046] ( ) see AHRC3113 (23 December 2015) at [14348]

49 See United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner ldquoStatus of Ratificationrdquo

lthttpindicatorsohchrorggt 50 ldquo rdquo Restat 3d of the Foreign Relations Law of the US (1987) at sect

102(2) and (3) 51 Patrick Robinson ldquoThe Right to a Fair Trial in International Law with Specific Reference to

the Work of the ICTYrdquo (2009) 3 Berk J Intl L Publicist 1 at 5 See also Yvonne McDermott

ldquoThe Right to a Fair Trial in International Criminal Lawrdquo (PhD thesis National University of

Ireland Galway July 2013) at 17 and in a related context see ldquoCustomary International

Humanitarian Law Databaserdquo International Committee of the Red Cross lthttpsihl-

databasesicrcorgcustomary-ihlengdocsv1_rul_rule100gt at Rule 100

14

52

- Case Study

( H R g ( HRrdquo))

rdquo

rdquo

53

HR ၆

rdquo

rdquo 54

rdquo

rdquo

၆ 55

၁၉ HR

52 International Commission of Jurists ldquoTrial Observation Manual for Criminal Proceedingsrdquo

(22 July 2009) lthttpswwwicjorgcriminal-trials-and-human-rights-a-manual-on-trial-

observationgt at 84 53 UK Human Rights Act 1998 Schedule I Article 6(1) (emphasis added) 54 Philis v Greece Application No 1275087 1378088 1400388 (27 August 1991) at sect59 55 Ashingdane v the United Kingdom No 822578) (28 May 1985) at sect57

15

HR

( )

-၁

( )

-

၁ -

( )

56

57

56 57

16

( )

(

) (

)

58

( )

58

17

59

Justice Base

Justice

Base

၆ ( ၁

) ၆

၁၁၉ 60

-

59

( )

60

18

61

62

rdquo

61 62

19

( )

rdquo

rdquo

rdquo rdquo

rdquo

rdquo rdquo

rdquo

rdquo

-

rdquo rdquo

( )

20

- -

63 (

)

-

-

63 ၁

Antoni Slodkowski and Soe Zeya Tun ldquoMyanmar

opposition candidate attacked with machetesrdquo (29 October 2015) Reuters

httpwwwreuterscomarticleus-myanmar-election-violence-idUSKCN0SN2GU2015102

21

( )

Diagram 2 A typical courtroom

(

)

Judge

Table

Clerk

Witness

Clerk

Lawyer

Lawyer Complainant

Defendant

Lawyer

22

-

-

64

( )

64 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at [28]

23

( )

65

-

rdquo

rdquo

rdquo 65

24

rdquo

rdquo

( )

(

( ) )

(

)

( )

25

66

(

) 67

68

66 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at para 29 (ldquo rdquo)

67 68 Christina Fink Living Silence in Burma (2nd ed Zed Books London 2009) at 134 as cited in

Fortify Rights ldquoMidnight Intrusion Ending Guest Registration and Household Inspections in

Myanmarrdquo (March 2015) Fortify Rights ltwwwfortifyrightsorggt at 12

26

၁၁

N k 69

-

-

( )

rdquo70

71

(

)

69 Cheesman above n 2 at 101 70 Cheesman n 2 at 117 71 See Part II subpart B above

27

Justice Base

customer

service trainings

Justice Base

( -၁)

၁၉( ) ၁

( )

28

( (၁) )

( - ) (၁)

( )

( - )

( - )

(

)

29

( - )

( )

( -၁)

( - )

( - )

30

31

( )

-

-

-

32

-

-

---------------------------- _________________________

33

( )

- 72 ၁

( )

( )

___________________________________________________________

( )

__________________________________________________ ( )

Yes No ( ______________________________________)

Yes No ___________________________________________________________

Yes No ( ________________________________________)

72

34

၁၁

____________________________________________________ Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No _________________ - Yes No - Yes No - ________________ Yes No ________________ - Yes No

( ______________________________________) ______ _______________________________ Yes No ___________________________________________________ Yes No __________________________________________________

( )

35

Yes No Yes No Yes No

Yes No - - Yes No - Yes No ___________________________ - Yes No -- Yes No - Yes No ( _____________)

၁၆ ( )

Yes No

Yes No

36

၁၉

( )

( )

Yes No Yes No

Yes No ____________

( )

Yes No Yes No

( )

37

- 73 ၁ gt gt၁ gt gt၁ gt +

[____ ____ ] ၆

[ ________________________________)

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

73

38

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

၉ cause list

Yes No

39

Yes No Yes No [ ____________________________________________)

၁၁

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

40

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No ___________________________________________

41

__________________________________________

Yes No [ ____________________________________________]

Yes No Yes No _____________________________________________________]

၁၆

Yes No [ ________________________________________________] Yes No [ ___________________________________________] Yes No

42

[ _________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________]

Yes No [ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________]

Yes No ____________________________________ ________________________________________________________

၁၉

Yes No ( ) _______________________________________________ [ ] Yes No [ ___________________________________________]

Yes No -

43

] - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------___________________________]

Yes No ______________________________________________ _________________________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________ ____________________________________________________----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Yes No _________________________________

44

( ) ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ Yes No

________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________

( )

Yes No __________________________________________________ Yes No -

Yes No _________________________________________________ ___________________

45

_________________________________________

Yes No ___________________________ ______________________

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No

46

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

47

Framing of the charges

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Final Argument

Yes No Yes No

ဍ Yes No

48

Yes No

Yes No Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Comments

49

- 1 2

3

4 5 a b c 6

7

8

[_______________________________]

9

10

Yes No

11

[ ________________________________)

12

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___]

50

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

13

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

14

[ _______________________________________]

1 cause list Yes

51

5

No

16

Yes No Yes No __________________________________________]

17

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

19

Yes No

20

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vi

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၆၀ ႔

႔ ႔

႔ ႔

႔ ႔

႔ ႔

႑ ႔

Justice Base

၁ ႔

၂၀၀၈

႔ ၁၉ ၂၀၁၀

၃ ႔

႔ ႔ ႔ ႔

vii

႔ ၄ ႔

႔ ႔ ၄ ႔

႔ ႔ ႔

႔ ႔

႔ ႔

႔ ႔

၃ ႔

႔ ႔

1

(၁)

၁-၁

1

2

3

၁ 4

5

6

7

၁ 8

1 ( ) (၆) 2 ၁၆

၉ ( ) 3

( ) ၁ ၁ -

4 ( ) ၁ ၆

5 ၉ ၉ 6 ၁၉ 7 8 ၁ httpwwwunionsupremecourtgovmm

2

၁-

9

rdquo 10 International Commission of

Jurists 11

9 (၁) ၁၁( ) ၁၉( ) 10 Yanghee Lee ldquoReport of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in

Myanmarrdquo (18 March 2016) AHRC3171 at 15 11 International Commission of Jurists ldquoRe Implementable Action Plans from the ICJ to the

new Parliament amp Governmentrdquo (3 May 2016) lthttpswwwicjorgwp-

contentuploads201606Myanmar-Recommendation-to-NLD-Gvt-Advocacy-Analysis-Brief-

2016-ENGpdfgt at 5-6 See also International Commission of Jurists ldquoMyanmar Country

Profile prepared by the ICJ Centre for the Independence of Judges and Lawyersrdquo (2014)

High Court (Region or State)

District Courts

Other Courts Constituted by Law (eg Juvenile

Courts)

Courts of Self-Administered Zones

Township Courts

Courts of Self-Administered Divisions

3

၁၉၆

rdquo12

၁၉

၁၉

rdquo 13

၁၉

rdquo 14

rdquo

rdquo 15

rdquo 16

lthttpswwwicjorgwp-contentuploads201406CIJL-Country-Profile-Myanmar-June-

2014pdfgt 12 Myint Zan ldquoJudicial Independence in Burma No March Backwards Towards the Pastrdquo 1

Asian-Pacific Law amp Policy Journal 5 (2000) at pg 13 13 Id at 25

Asian-Pacific Law amp Policy Journal 5 (2000) at pg 25 14 Nick Cheesman ldquoThin Rule of Law or Un-Rule of Law in Myanmarrdquo (2010) 82(4) Pacific Affairs 597 at 612 15 Cheesman above n 2 at 161ndash162 16 International Commission of Jurists ldquoMyanmar Country Profile prepared by the ICJ Centre

4

17

18

19

20

21

for the Independence of Judges and Lawyersrdquo above n 14 at 11 See also Khaing Sape Saw

ldquoTackling Myanmar‟s Corruption Challengerdquo (April 2015) 13 Focus Asia Perspectives and

Analysis 1 17 Lee above n 13 at 15 International Bar Association‟s Human Rights Initiative ldquoThe Rule of

Law in Myanmar Challenges and Prospectsrdquo (International Bar Association London

December 2012) 18 See International Commission of Jurists ldquoRight to Counsel The Independence of Lawyers in

Myanmarrdquo (2013)ltwwwicjorggt at 31 DLA Piper New Perimeter ldquoMyanmar Rule of Law

Assessmentrdquo (March 2013) ltwwwnewperimetercomgt at 36 19 See International Commission of Jurists ldquoRight to Counsel The Independence of Lawyers in

Myanmarrdquo above n 20 Melissa Crouch ldquoRediscovering bdquoLaw‟ in Myanmarrdquo (2014) 23 Pac

Rim L amp Pol‟y J 543 at 545-46 20 Lee above n 13 at 15 21

၁( ) ၁ ( )( ) ( )( )

5

22

23

24

( )

-၁

22 The distinction between substantive law reform and advocacy for formal legality in the

context of ldquocause lawyeringrdquo in Myanmar is drawn in Nick Cheesman and Kyaw Min San

ldquoNot Just Defending Advocating for Law in Myanmarrdquo (2014) 31 Wis Int‟l L J 702 at 704ndash

705 23 See for instance the All Burma Federation of Student Unions‟ boycott of the ldquofailedrdquo court

system ldquoStudents to boycott failed judicial systemrdquo (March 15 2016) Asian Human Rights

Commission Press Release AHRC-STM-033-2016

lthttpwwwahrchkorgruleoflawasianetnewsphpid=AHRC-STM-033-2016gt See also

International Commission of Jurists above n 20 at 14-15 Justice Base ldquoVoices from the

Intersection Women‟s Access to Justice in the Plural Legal System of Myanmarrdquo (2016)

ltwwwjusticebaseorggt at 9 54 and 81 This problem is recognised by Myanmar‟s

government see ldquoMoving Forward to the Rule of Law Strategic Plan 2015ndash2019rdquo (Union

Attorney General‟s Office Nay Pyi Taw 2015) at 11 24 Jeremy Lever ldquoWhy Procedure is More Important than Substantive Lawrdquo 48 Int‟l amp Comp

LQ 285 (1999) at 300 discussing Tom Tyler Who Do People Obey the Law (Yale University

Press New Haven 1990)

6

rdquo 25 (

)

26

27

28

25

Ola Johan Settem ldquoApplications of the bdquoFair Hearing‟ Norm in ECHR Article 6(1) to Civil

Proceedingsrdquo (Springer New York 2016) at 120 See also Human Rights Committee General

Comment No 32 CCPRCGC32 (23 August 2007) at para 28 26 M Cherif Bassiouni ldquoHuman Rights in the Context of Criminal Justice Identifying

International Procedural Protections and Equivalent Protections in National Constitutionsrdquo

(1992ndash1993) 3 Duke J Comp Int‟l L 235 at 274 Anthony C Epstein ldquoOpen Courts Closed

Trialsrdquo (1986) 13 Litigation 23 at 24 27

( )

28 Bassiouni above n 28 at 274

7

rdquo29 30 31

-

၁၉( ) rdquo

၁ ( )

29 Sarosh Zaiwalla ldquoSecret courts justice conducted behind closed doors is no justice at allrdquo (19

August 2013) The Guardian ltwwwtheguardiancomgt 30 Tom Bingham ldquoThe Rule of Lawrdquo (Penguin London 2011) at 96-97 31

ldquodemocracies die behind closed doorsrdquo

see Detroit Free Press v Ashcroft 03 F3d 681 (6th Cir 2002) per Keith J

8

၁ ၉ -

(၁)

rdquo

( )

rdquo

၁၉( )

9

(

)

32

33

34

၁၉၉ ( )

၁၆ ၁၆

Burma Official

Secrets Act 1923 ၁

35

32 See Human Rights Committee n 27 at para 29 UN Commission on Human Rights rdquoThe

Siracusa Principles on the Limitation and Derogation Provisions in the International Covenant

on Civil and Political Rightsrdquo ECN419854 (28 September 1984) para 38(a) 33 Stefan Trechsel ldquoThe Significance of International Human Rights for Criminal Procedurerdquo

(2011) 6 Nat‟l Taiwan Univ Law Rev 1 at 191 (witness reprisal) Mole Nuala and Harby

ldquoThe Right to a Fair Trial A guide to the implementation of Article 6 of the European

Convention on Human Rightsrdquo (2006) at 22 34 UN Commission on Human Rights rdquoThe Siracusa Principles on the Limitation and

Derogation Provisions in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rightsrdquo above n

35 para 38(a) 35 ၁

10

36

37

Justice Base

Justice Base

38

36 ( ) 37

( ၁ ) wwwunionsupremecourtgovmm rdquo ( ) - ၁

38 Human Rights

Committee n 27 at para 29 (ldquo rdquo)

11

၁ - ၁

rdquo

rdquo 39

-

( UDHRrdquo)

40

(International Covenant on Civil and

P R g ( PR))

41

39 Eleven ldquoJudicial process must be independent and transparent says Chief justicerdquo ( ၉ ၁ ) httpwwwelevenmyanmarcomlocaljudicial-process-must-be-independent-and-

transparent-says-chief-justice 40 Universal Declaration of Human Rights GA Res 217A (III) (10 December 1948) art 10 41 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 999 UNTS 171 (opened for signature 16

December 1966 entered into force 23 March 1976) art 14

12

42

(H R g ) PR

rdquo

( )

43

44

PR

42 UN Commission on Human Rights rdquoThe Siracusa Principles on the Limitation and

Derogation Provisions in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rightsrdquo above n

35 para 38(a) 43 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at paras 3 16 and 28 44 At para 29

13

45

UDHR PR UDHR

46 UDHR 47

PR 48

49 UDHR

(UDHR

) UDHR

50

UDHR

ICCPR

51

45 At para 28 46 See ldquoYearbook of the United Nations 1948ndash1949rdquo The Yearbook of the United Nations

ltunyearbookunorggt at 535 47 Malcolm N Shaw International Law (7th ed Cambridge University Press Cambridge 2014)

at 279 48 Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review Myanmar AHRC3113 (23

December 015) at [1434] reaffirming the commitment expressed during the previous

Universal Periodic Review Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review

Myanmar AHRC179 (24 March 2011) at [1046] ( ) see AHRC3113 (23 December 2015) at [14348]

49 See United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner ldquoStatus of Ratificationrdquo

lthttpindicatorsohchrorggt 50 ldquo rdquo Restat 3d of the Foreign Relations Law of the US (1987) at sect

102(2) and (3) 51 Patrick Robinson ldquoThe Right to a Fair Trial in International Law with Specific Reference to

the Work of the ICTYrdquo (2009) 3 Berk J Intl L Publicist 1 at 5 See also Yvonne McDermott

ldquoThe Right to a Fair Trial in International Criminal Lawrdquo (PhD thesis National University of

Ireland Galway July 2013) at 17 and in a related context see ldquoCustomary International

Humanitarian Law Databaserdquo International Committee of the Red Cross lthttpsihl-

databasesicrcorgcustomary-ihlengdocsv1_rul_rule100gt at Rule 100

14

52

- Case Study

( H R g ( HRrdquo))

rdquo

rdquo

53

HR ၆

rdquo

rdquo 54

rdquo

rdquo

၆ 55

၁၉ HR

52 International Commission of Jurists ldquoTrial Observation Manual for Criminal Proceedingsrdquo

(22 July 2009) lthttpswwwicjorgcriminal-trials-and-human-rights-a-manual-on-trial-

observationgt at 84 53 UK Human Rights Act 1998 Schedule I Article 6(1) (emphasis added) 54 Philis v Greece Application No 1275087 1378088 1400388 (27 August 1991) at sect59 55 Ashingdane v the United Kingdom No 822578) (28 May 1985) at sect57

15

HR

( )

-၁

( )

-

၁ -

( )

56

57

56 57

16

( )

(

) (

)

58

( )

58

17

59

Justice Base

Justice

Base

၆ ( ၁

) ၆

၁၁၉ 60

-

59

( )

60

18

61

62

rdquo

61 62

19

( )

rdquo

rdquo

rdquo rdquo

rdquo

rdquo rdquo

rdquo

rdquo

-

rdquo rdquo

( )

20

- -

63 (

)

-

-

63 ၁

Antoni Slodkowski and Soe Zeya Tun ldquoMyanmar

opposition candidate attacked with machetesrdquo (29 October 2015) Reuters

httpwwwreuterscomarticleus-myanmar-election-violence-idUSKCN0SN2GU2015102

21

( )

Diagram 2 A typical courtroom

(

)

Judge

Table

Clerk

Witness

Clerk

Lawyer

Lawyer Complainant

Defendant

Lawyer

22

-

-

64

( )

64 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at [28]

23

( )

65

-

rdquo

rdquo

rdquo 65

24

rdquo

rdquo

( )

(

( ) )

(

)

( )

25

66

(

) 67

68

66 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at para 29 (ldquo rdquo)

67 68 Christina Fink Living Silence in Burma (2nd ed Zed Books London 2009) at 134 as cited in

Fortify Rights ldquoMidnight Intrusion Ending Guest Registration and Household Inspections in

Myanmarrdquo (March 2015) Fortify Rights ltwwwfortifyrightsorggt at 12

26

၁၁

N k 69

-

-

( )

rdquo70

71

(

)

69 Cheesman above n 2 at 101 70 Cheesman n 2 at 117 71 See Part II subpart B above

27

Justice Base

customer

service trainings

Justice Base

( -၁)

၁၉( ) ၁

( )

28

( (၁) )

( - ) (၁)

( )

( - )

( - )

(

)

29

( - )

( )

( -၁)

( - )

( - )

30

31

( )

-

-

-

32

-

-

---------------------------- _________________________

33

( )

- 72 ၁

( )

( )

___________________________________________________________

( )

__________________________________________________ ( )

Yes No ( ______________________________________)

Yes No ___________________________________________________________

Yes No ( ________________________________________)

72

34

၁၁

____________________________________________________ Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No _________________ - Yes No - Yes No - ________________ Yes No ________________ - Yes No

( ______________________________________) ______ _______________________________ Yes No ___________________________________________________ Yes No __________________________________________________

( )

35

Yes No Yes No Yes No

Yes No - - Yes No - Yes No ___________________________ - Yes No -- Yes No - Yes No ( _____________)

၁၆ ( )

Yes No

Yes No

36

၁၉

( )

( )

Yes No Yes No

Yes No ____________

( )

Yes No Yes No

( )

37

- 73 ၁ gt gt၁ gt gt၁ gt +

[____ ____ ] ၆

[ ________________________________)

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

73

38

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

၉ cause list

Yes No

39

Yes No Yes No [ ____________________________________________)

၁၁

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

40

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No ___________________________________________

41

__________________________________________

Yes No [ ____________________________________________]

Yes No Yes No _____________________________________________________]

၁၆

Yes No [ ________________________________________________] Yes No [ ___________________________________________] Yes No

42

[ _________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________]

Yes No [ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________]

Yes No ____________________________________ ________________________________________________________

၁၉

Yes No ( ) _______________________________________________ [ ] Yes No [ ___________________________________________]

Yes No -

43

] - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------___________________________]

Yes No ______________________________________________ _________________________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________ ____________________________________________________----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Yes No _________________________________

44

( ) ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ Yes No

________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________

( )

Yes No __________________________________________________ Yes No -

Yes No _________________________________________________ ___________________

45

_________________________________________

Yes No ___________________________ ______________________

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No

46

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

47

Framing of the charges

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Final Argument

Yes No Yes No

ဍ Yes No

48

Yes No

Yes No Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Comments

49

- 1 2

3

4 5 a b c 6

7

8

[_______________________________]

9

10

Yes No

11

[ ________________________________)

12

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___]

50

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

13

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

14

[ _______________________________________]

1 cause list Yes

51

5

No

16

Yes No Yes No __________________________________________]

17

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

19

Yes No

20

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vii

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၃ ႔

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1

(၁)

၁-၁

1

2

3

၁ 4

5

6

7

၁ 8

1 ( ) (၆) 2 ၁၆

၉ ( ) 3

( ) ၁ ၁ -

4 ( ) ၁ ၆

5 ၉ ၉ 6 ၁၉ 7 8 ၁ httpwwwunionsupremecourtgovmm

2

၁-

9

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Jurists 11

9 (၁) ၁၁( ) ၁၉( ) 10 Yanghee Lee ldquoReport of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in

Myanmarrdquo (18 March 2016) AHRC3171 at 15 11 International Commission of Jurists ldquoRe Implementable Action Plans from the ICJ to the

new Parliament amp Governmentrdquo (3 May 2016) lthttpswwwicjorgwp-

contentuploads201606Myanmar-Recommendation-to-NLD-Gvt-Advocacy-Analysis-Brief-

2016-ENGpdfgt at 5-6 See also International Commission of Jurists ldquoMyanmar Country

Profile prepared by the ICJ Centre for the Independence of Judges and Lawyersrdquo (2014)

High Court (Region or State)

District Courts

Other Courts Constituted by Law (eg Juvenile

Courts)

Courts of Self-Administered Zones

Township Courts

Courts of Self-Administered Divisions

3

၁၉၆

rdquo12

၁၉

၁၉

rdquo 13

၁၉

rdquo 14

rdquo

rdquo 15

rdquo 16

lthttpswwwicjorgwp-contentuploads201406CIJL-Country-Profile-Myanmar-June-

2014pdfgt 12 Myint Zan ldquoJudicial Independence in Burma No March Backwards Towards the Pastrdquo 1

Asian-Pacific Law amp Policy Journal 5 (2000) at pg 13 13 Id at 25

Asian-Pacific Law amp Policy Journal 5 (2000) at pg 25 14 Nick Cheesman ldquoThin Rule of Law or Un-Rule of Law in Myanmarrdquo (2010) 82(4) Pacific Affairs 597 at 612 15 Cheesman above n 2 at 161ndash162 16 International Commission of Jurists ldquoMyanmar Country Profile prepared by the ICJ Centre

4

17

18

19

20

21

for the Independence of Judges and Lawyersrdquo above n 14 at 11 See also Khaing Sape Saw

ldquoTackling Myanmar‟s Corruption Challengerdquo (April 2015) 13 Focus Asia Perspectives and

Analysis 1 17 Lee above n 13 at 15 International Bar Association‟s Human Rights Initiative ldquoThe Rule of

Law in Myanmar Challenges and Prospectsrdquo (International Bar Association London

December 2012) 18 See International Commission of Jurists ldquoRight to Counsel The Independence of Lawyers in

Myanmarrdquo (2013)ltwwwicjorggt at 31 DLA Piper New Perimeter ldquoMyanmar Rule of Law

Assessmentrdquo (March 2013) ltwwwnewperimetercomgt at 36 19 See International Commission of Jurists ldquoRight to Counsel The Independence of Lawyers in

Myanmarrdquo above n 20 Melissa Crouch ldquoRediscovering bdquoLaw‟ in Myanmarrdquo (2014) 23 Pac

Rim L amp Pol‟y J 543 at 545-46 20 Lee above n 13 at 15 21

၁( ) ၁ ( )( ) ( )( )

5

22

23

24

( )

-၁

22 The distinction between substantive law reform and advocacy for formal legality in the

context of ldquocause lawyeringrdquo in Myanmar is drawn in Nick Cheesman and Kyaw Min San

ldquoNot Just Defending Advocating for Law in Myanmarrdquo (2014) 31 Wis Int‟l L J 702 at 704ndash

705 23 See for instance the All Burma Federation of Student Unions‟ boycott of the ldquofailedrdquo court

system ldquoStudents to boycott failed judicial systemrdquo (March 15 2016) Asian Human Rights

Commission Press Release AHRC-STM-033-2016

lthttpwwwahrchkorgruleoflawasianetnewsphpid=AHRC-STM-033-2016gt See also

International Commission of Jurists above n 20 at 14-15 Justice Base ldquoVoices from the

Intersection Women‟s Access to Justice in the Plural Legal System of Myanmarrdquo (2016)

ltwwwjusticebaseorggt at 9 54 and 81 This problem is recognised by Myanmar‟s

government see ldquoMoving Forward to the Rule of Law Strategic Plan 2015ndash2019rdquo (Union

Attorney General‟s Office Nay Pyi Taw 2015) at 11 24 Jeremy Lever ldquoWhy Procedure is More Important than Substantive Lawrdquo 48 Int‟l amp Comp

LQ 285 (1999) at 300 discussing Tom Tyler Who Do People Obey the Law (Yale University

Press New Haven 1990)

6

rdquo 25 (

)

26

27

28

25

Ola Johan Settem ldquoApplications of the bdquoFair Hearing‟ Norm in ECHR Article 6(1) to Civil

Proceedingsrdquo (Springer New York 2016) at 120 See also Human Rights Committee General

Comment No 32 CCPRCGC32 (23 August 2007) at para 28 26 M Cherif Bassiouni ldquoHuman Rights in the Context of Criminal Justice Identifying

International Procedural Protections and Equivalent Protections in National Constitutionsrdquo

(1992ndash1993) 3 Duke J Comp Int‟l L 235 at 274 Anthony C Epstein ldquoOpen Courts Closed

Trialsrdquo (1986) 13 Litigation 23 at 24 27

( )

28 Bassiouni above n 28 at 274

7

rdquo29 30 31

-

၁၉( ) rdquo

၁ ( )

29 Sarosh Zaiwalla ldquoSecret courts justice conducted behind closed doors is no justice at allrdquo (19

August 2013) The Guardian ltwwwtheguardiancomgt 30 Tom Bingham ldquoThe Rule of Lawrdquo (Penguin London 2011) at 96-97 31

ldquodemocracies die behind closed doorsrdquo

see Detroit Free Press v Ashcroft 03 F3d 681 (6th Cir 2002) per Keith J

8

၁ ၉ -

(၁)

rdquo

( )

rdquo

၁၉( )

9

(

)

32

33

34

၁၉၉ ( )

၁၆ ၁၆

Burma Official

Secrets Act 1923 ၁

35

32 See Human Rights Committee n 27 at para 29 UN Commission on Human Rights rdquoThe

Siracusa Principles on the Limitation and Derogation Provisions in the International Covenant

on Civil and Political Rightsrdquo ECN419854 (28 September 1984) para 38(a) 33 Stefan Trechsel ldquoThe Significance of International Human Rights for Criminal Procedurerdquo

(2011) 6 Nat‟l Taiwan Univ Law Rev 1 at 191 (witness reprisal) Mole Nuala and Harby

ldquoThe Right to a Fair Trial A guide to the implementation of Article 6 of the European

Convention on Human Rightsrdquo (2006) at 22 34 UN Commission on Human Rights rdquoThe Siracusa Principles on the Limitation and

Derogation Provisions in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rightsrdquo above n

35 para 38(a) 35 ၁

10

36

37

Justice Base

Justice Base

38

36 ( ) 37

( ၁ ) wwwunionsupremecourtgovmm rdquo ( ) - ၁

38 Human Rights

Committee n 27 at para 29 (ldquo rdquo)

11

၁ - ၁

rdquo

rdquo 39

-

( UDHRrdquo)

40

(International Covenant on Civil and

P R g ( PR))

41

39 Eleven ldquoJudicial process must be independent and transparent says Chief justicerdquo ( ၉ ၁ ) httpwwwelevenmyanmarcomlocaljudicial-process-must-be-independent-and-

transparent-says-chief-justice 40 Universal Declaration of Human Rights GA Res 217A (III) (10 December 1948) art 10 41 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 999 UNTS 171 (opened for signature 16

December 1966 entered into force 23 March 1976) art 14

12

42

(H R g ) PR

rdquo

( )

43

44

PR

42 UN Commission on Human Rights rdquoThe Siracusa Principles on the Limitation and

Derogation Provisions in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rightsrdquo above n

35 para 38(a) 43 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at paras 3 16 and 28 44 At para 29

13

45

UDHR PR UDHR

46 UDHR 47

PR 48

49 UDHR

(UDHR

) UDHR

50

UDHR

ICCPR

51

45 At para 28 46 See ldquoYearbook of the United Nations 1948ndash1949rdquo The Yearbook of the United Nations

ltunyearbookunorggt at 535 47 Malcolm N Shaw International Law (7th ed Cambridge University Press Cambridge 2014)

at 279 48 Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review Myanmar AHRC3113 (23

December 015) at [1434] reaffirming the commitment expressed during the previous

Universal Periodic Review Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review

Myanmar AHRC179 (24 March 2011) at [1046] ( ) see AHRC3113 (23 December 2015) at [14348]

49 See United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner ldquoStatus of Ratificationrdquo

lthttpindicatorsohchrorggt 50 ldquo rdquo Restat 3d of the Foreign Relations Law of the US (1987) at sect

102(2) and (3) 51 Patrick Robinson ldquoThe Right to a Fair Trial in International Law with Specific Reference to

the Work of the ICTYrdquo (2009) 3 Berk J Intl L Publicist 1 at 5 See also Yvonne McDermott

ldquoThe Right to a Fair Trial in International Criminal Lawrdquo (PhD thesis National University of

Ireland Galway July 2013) at 17 and in a related context see ldquoCustomary International

Humanitarian Law Databaserdquo International Committee of the Red Cross lthttpsihl-

databasesicrcorgcustomary-ihlengdocsv1_rul_rule100gt at Rule 100

14

52

- Case Study

( H R g ( HRrdquo))

rdquo

rdquo

53

HR ၆

rdquo

rdquo 54

rdquo

rdquo

၆ 55

၁၉ HR

52 International Commission of Jurists ldquoTrial Observation Manual for Criminal Proceedingsrdquo

(22 July 2009) lthttpswwwicjorgcriminal-trials-and-human-rights-a-manual-on-trial-

observationgt at 84 53 UK Human Rights Act 1998 Schedule I Article 6(1) (emphasis added) 54 Philis v Greece Application No 1275087 1378088 1400388 (27 August 1991) at sect59 55 Ashingdane v the United Kingdom No 822578) (28 May 1985) at sect57

15

HR

( )

-၁

( )

-

၁ -

( )

56

57

56 57

16

( )

(

) (

)

58

( )

58

17

59

Justice Base

Justice

Base

၆ ( ၁

) ၆

၁၁၉ 60

-

59

( )

60

18

61

62

rdquo

61 62

19

( )

rdquo

rdquo

rdquo rdquo

rdquo

rdquo rdquo

rdquo

rdquo

-

rdquo rdquo

( )

20

- -

63 (

)

-

-

63 ၁

Antoni Slodkowski and Soe Zeya Tun ldquoMyanmar

opposition candidate attacked with machetesrdquo (29 October 2015) Reuters

httpwwwreuterscomarticleus-myanmar-election-violence-idUSKCN0SN2GU2015102

21

( )

Diagram 2 A typical courtroom

(

)

Judge

Table

Clerk

Witness

Clerk

Lawyer

Lawyer Complainant

Defendant

Lawyer

22

-

-

64

( )

64 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at [28]

23

( )

65

-

rdquo

rdquo

rdquo 65

24

rdquo

rdquo

( )

(

( ) )

(

)

( )

25

66

(

) 67

68

66 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at para 29 (ldquo rdquo)

67 68 Christina Fink Living Silence in Burma (2nd ed Zed Books London 2009) at 134 as cited in

Fortify Rights ldquoMidnight Intrusion Ending Guest Registration and Household Inspections in

Myanmarrdquo (March 2015) Fortify Rights ltwwwfortifyrightsorggt at 12

26

၁၁

N k 69

-

-

( )

rdquo70

71

(

)

69 Cheesman above n 2 at 101 70 Cheesman n 2 at 117 71 See Part II subpart B above

27

Justice Base

customer

service trainings

Justice Base

( -၁)

၁၉( ) ၁

( )

28

( (၁) )

( - ) (၁)

( )

( - )

( - )

(

)

29

( - )

( )

( -၁)

( - )

( - )

30

31

( )

-

-

-

32

-

-

---------------------------- _________________________

33

( )

- 72 ၁

( )

( )

___________________________________________________________

( )

__________________________________________________ ( )

Yes No ( ______________________________________)

Yes No ___________________________________________________________

Yes No ( ________________________________________)

72

34

၁၁

____________________________________________________ Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No _________________ - Yes No - Yes No - ________________ Yes No ________________ - Yes No

( ______________________________________) ______ _______________________________ Yes No ___________________________________________________ Yes No __________________________________________________

( )

35

Yes No Yes No Yes No

Yes No - - Yes No - Yes No ___________________________ - Yes No -- Yes No - Yes No ( _____________)

၁၆ ( )

Yes No

Yes No

36

၁၉

( )

( )

Yes No Yes No

Yes No ____________

( )

Yes No Yes No

( )

37

- 73 ၁ gt gt၁ gt gt၁ gt +

[____ ____ ] ၆

[ ________________________________)

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

73

38

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

၉ cause list

Yes No

39

Yes No Yes No [ ____________________________________________)

၁၁

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

40

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No ___________________________________________

41

__________________________________________

Yes No [ ____________________________________________]

Yes No Yes No _____________________________________________________]

၁၆

Yes No [ ________________________________________________] Yes No [ ___________________________________________] Yes No

42

[ _________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________]

Yes No [ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________]

Yes No ____________________________________ ________________________________________________________

၁၉

Yes No ( ) _______________________________________________ [ ] Yes No [ ___________________________________________]

Yes No -

43

] - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------___________________________]

Yes No ______________________________________________ _________________________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________ ____________________________________________________----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Yes No _________________________________

44

( ) ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ Yes No

________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________

( )

Yes No __________________________________________________ Yes No -

Yes No _________________________________________________ ___________________

45

_________________________________________

Yes No ___________________________ ______________________

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No

46

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

47

Framing of the charges

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Final Argument

Yes No Yes No

ဍ Yes No

48

Yes No

Yes No Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Comments

49

- 1 2

3

4 5 a b c 6

7

8

[_______________________________]

9

10

Yes No

11

[ ________________________________)

12

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___]

50

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

13

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

14

[ _______________________________________]

1 cause list Yes

51

5

No

16

Yes No Yes No __________________________________________]

17

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

19

Yes No

20

Page 11: JUSTICE BASE - Progressive Voice...Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal 5 (2000), at pg. 25. 14 Nick Cheesman “Thin Rule of Law or Un-Rule of Law in Myanmar?”(2010) 82(4) Pacific

1

(၁)

၁-၁

1

2

3

၁ 4

5

6

7

၁ 8

1 ( ) (၆) 2 ၁၆

၉ ( ) 3

( ) ၁ ၁ -

4 ( ) ၁ ၆

5 ၉ ၉ 6 ၁၉ 7 8 ၁ httpwwwunionsupremecourtgovmm

2

၁-

9

rdquo 10 International Commission of

Jurists 11

9 (၁) ၁၁( ) ၁၉( ) 10 Yanghee Lee ldquoReport of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in

Myanmarrdquo (18 March 2016) AHRC3171 at 15 11 International Commission of Jurists ldquoRe Implementable Action Plans from the ICJ to the

new Parliament amp Governmentrdquo (3 May 2016) lthttpswwwicjorgwp-

contentuploads201606Myanmar-Recommendation-to-NLD-Gvt-Advocacy-Analysis-Brief-

2016-ENGpdfgt at 5-6 See also International Commission of Jurists ldquoMyanmar Country

Profile prepared by the ICJ Centre for the Independence of Judges and Lawyersrdquo (2014)

High Court (Region or State)

District Courts

Other Courts Constituted by Law (eg Juvenile

Courts)

Courts of Self-Administered Zones

Township Courts

Courts of Self-Administered Divisions

3

၁၉၆

rdquo12

၁၉

၁၉

rdquo 13

၁၉

rdquo 14

rdquo

rdquo 15

rdquo 16

lthttpswwwicjorgwp-contentuploads201406CIJL-Country-Profile-Myanmar-June-

2014pdfgt 12 Myint Zan ldquoJudicial Independence in Burma No March Backwards Towards the Pastrdquo 1

Asian-Pacific Law amp Policy Journal 5 (2000) at pg 13 13 Id at 25

Asian-Pacific Law amp Policy Journal 5 (2000) at pg 25 14 Nick Cheesman ldquoThin Rule of Law or Un-Rule of Law in Myanmarrdquo (2010) 82(4) Pacific Affairs 597 at 612 15 Cheesman above n 2 at 161ndash162 16 International Commission of Jurists ldquoMyanmar Country Profile prepared by the ICJ Centre

4

17

18

19

20

21

for the Independence of Judges and Lawyersrdquo above n 14 at 11 See also Khaing Sape Saw

ldquoTackling Myanmar‟s Corruption Challengerdquo (April 2015) 13 Focus Asia Perspectives and

Analysis 1 17 Lee above n 13 at 15 International Bar Association‟s Human Rights Initiative ldquoThe Rule of

Law in Myanmar Challenges and Prospectsrdquo (International Bar Association London

December 2012) 18 See International Commission of Jurists ldquoRight to Counsel The Independence of Lawyers in

Myanmarrdquo (2013)ltwwwicjorggt at 31 DLA Piper New Perimeter ldquoMyanmar Rule of Law

Assessmentrdquo (March 2013) ltwwwnewperimetercomgt at 36 19 See International Commission of Jurists ldquoRight to Counsel The Independence of Lawyers in

Myanmarrdquo above n 20 Melissa Crouch ldquoRediscovering bdquoLaw‟ in Myanmarrdquo (2014) 23 Pac

Rim L amp Pol‟y J 543 at 545-46 20 Lee above n 13 at 15 21

၁( ) ၁ ( )( ) ( )( )

5

22

23

24

( )

-၁

22 The distinction between substantive law reform and advocacy for formal legality in the

context of ldquocause lawyeringrdquo in Myanmar is drawn in Nick Cheesman and Kyaw Min San

ldquoNot Just Defending Advocating for Law in Myanmarrdquo (2014) 31 Wis Int‟l L J 702 at 704ndash

705 23 See for instance the All Burma Federation of Student Unions‟ boycott of the ldquofailedrdquo court

system ldquoStudents to boycott failed judicial systemrdquo (March 15 2016) Asian Human Rights

Commission Press Release AHRC-STM-033-2016

lthttpwwwahrchkorgruleoflawasianetnewsphpid=AHRC-STM-033-2016gt See also

International Commission of Jurists above n 20 at 14-15 Justice Base ldquoVoices from the

Intersection Women‟s Access to Justice in the Plural Legal System of Myanmarrdquo (2016)

ltwwwjusticebaseorggt at 9 54 and 81 This problem is recognised by Myanmar‟s

government see ldquoMoving Forward to the Rule of Law Strategic Plan 2015ndash2019rdquo (Union

Attorney General‟s Office Nay Pyi Taw 2015) at 11 24 Jeremy Lever ldquoWhy Procedure is More Important than Substantive Lawrdquo 48 Int‟l amp Comp

LQ 285 (1999) at 300 discussing Tom Tyler Who Do People Obey the Law (Yale University

Press New Haven 1990)

6

rdquo 25 (

)

26

27

28

25

Ola Johan Settem ldquoApplications of the bdquoFair Hearing‟ Norm in ECHR Article 6(1) to Civil

Proceedingsrdquo (Springer New York 2016) at 120 See also Human Rights Committee General

Comment No 32 CCPRCGC32 (23 August 2007) at para 28 26 M Cherif Bassiouni ldquoHuman Rights in the Context of Criminal Justice Identifying

International Procedural Protections and Equivalent Protections in National Constitutionsrdquo

(1992ndash1993) 3 Duke J Comp Int‟l L 235 at 274 Anthony C Epstein ldquoOpen Courts Closed

Trialsrdquo (1986) 13 Litigation 23 at 24 27

( )

28 Bassiouni above n 28 at 274

7

rdquo29 30 31

-

၁၉( ) rdquo

၁ ( )

29 Sarosh Zaiwalla ldquoSecret courts justice conducted behind closed doors is no justice at allrdquo (19

August 2013) The Guardian ltwwwtheguardiancomgt 30 Tom Bingham ldquoThe Rule of Lawrdquo (Penguin London 2011) at 96-97 31

ldquodemocracies die behind closed doorsrdquo

see Detroit Free Press v Ashcroft 03 F3d 681 (6th Cir 2002) per Keith J

8

၁ ၉ -

(၁)

rdquo

( )

rdquo

၁၉( )

9

(

)

32

33

34

၁၉၉ ( )

၁၆ ၁၆

Burma Official

Secrets Act 1923 ၁

35

32 See Human Rights Committee n 27 at para 29 UN Commission on Human Rights rdquoThe

Siracusa Principles on the Limitation and Derogation Provisions in the International Covenant

on Civil and Political Rightsrdquo ECN419854 (28 September 1984) para 38(a) 33 Stefan Trechsel ldquoThe Significance of International Human Rights for Criminal Procedurerdquo

(2011) 6 Nat‟l Taiwan Univ Law Rev 1 at 191 (witness reprisal) Mole Nuala and Harby

ldquoThe Right to a Fair Trial A guide to the implementation of Article 6 of the European

Convention on Human Rightsrdquo (2006) at 22 34 UN Commission on Human Rights rdquoThe Siracusa Principles on the Limitation and

Derogation Provisions in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rightsrdquo above n

35 para 38(a) 35 ၁

10

36

37

Justice Base

Justice Base

38

36 ( ) 37

( ၁ ) wwwunionsupremecourtgovmm rdquo ( ) - ၁

38 Human Rights

Committee n 27 at para 29 (ldquo rdquo)

11

၁ - ၁

rdquo

rdquo 39

-

( UDHRrdquo)

40

(International Covenant on Civil and

P R g ( PR))

41

39 Eleven ldquoJudicial process must be independent and transparent says Chief justicerdquo ( ၉ ၁ ) httpwwwelevenmyanmarcomlocaljudicial-process-must-be-independent-and-

transparent-says-chief-justice 40 Universal Declaration of Human Rights GA Res 217A (III) (10 December 1948) art 10 41 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 999 UNTS 171 (opened for signature 16

December 1966 entered into force 23 March 1976) art 14

12

42

(H R g ) PR

rdquo

( )

43

44

PR

42 UN Commission on Human Rights rdquoThe Siracusa Principles on the Limitation and

Derogation Provisions in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rightsrdquo above n

35 para 38(a) 43 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at paras 3 16 and 28 44 At para 29

13

45

UDHR PR UDHR

46 UDHR 47

PR 48

49 UDHR

(UDHR

) UDHR

50

UDHR

ICCPR

51

45 At para 28 46 See ldquoYearbook of the United Nations 1948ndash1949rdquo The Yearbook of the United Nations

ltunyearbookunorggt at 535 47 Malcolm N Shaw International Law (7th ed Cambridge University Press Cambridge 2014)

at 279 48 Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review Myanmar AHRC3113 (23

December 015) at [1434] reaffirming the commitment expressed during the previous

Universal Periodic Review Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review

Myanmar AHRC179 (24 March 2011) at [1046] ( ) see AHRC3113 (23 December 2015) at [14348]

49 See United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner ldquoStatus of Ratificationrdquo

lthttpindicatorsohchrorggt 50 ldquo rdquo Restat 3d of the Foreign Relations Law of the US (1987) at sect

102(2) and (3) 51 Patrick Robinson ldquoThe Right to a Fair Trial in International Law with Specific Reference to

the Work of the ICTYrdquo (2009) 3 Berk J Intl L Publicist 1 at 5 See also Yvonne McDermott

ldquoThe Right to a Fair Trial in International Criminal Lawrdquo (PhD thesis National University of

Ireland Galway July 2013) at 17 and in a related context see ldquoCustomary International

Humanitarian Law Databaserdquo International Committee of the Red Cross lthttpsihl-

databasesicrcorgcustomary-ihlengdocsv1_rul_rule100gt at Rule 100

14

52

- Case Study

( H R g ( HRrdquo))

rdquo

rdquo

53

HR ၆

rdquo

rdquo 54

rdquo

rdquo

၆ 55

၁၉ HR

52 International Commission of Jurists ldquoTrial Observation Manual for Criminal Proceedingsrdquo

(22 July 2009) lthttpswwwicjorgcriminal-trials-and-human-rights-a-manual-on-trial-

observationgt at 84 53 UK Human Rights Act 1998 Schedule I Article 6(1) (emphasis added) 54 Philis v Greece Application No 1275087 1378088 1400388 (27 August 1991) at sect59 55 Ashingdane v the United Kingdom No 822578) (28 May 1985) at sect57

15

HR

( )

-၁

( )

-

၁ -

( )

56

57

56 57

16

( )

(

) (

)

58

( )

58

17

59

Justice Base

Justice

Base

၆ ( ၁

) ၆

၁၁၉ 60

-

59

( )

60

18

61

62

rdquo

61 62

19

( )

rdquo

rdquo

rdquo rdquo

rdquo

rdquo rdquo

rdquo

rdquo

-

rdquo rdquo

( )

20

- -

63 (

)

-

-

63 ၁

Antoni Slodkowski and Soe Zeya Tun ldquoMyanmar

opposition candidate attacked with machetesrdquo (29 October 2015) Reuters

httpwwwreuterscomarticleus-myanmar-election-violence-idUSKCN0SN2GU2015102

21

( )

Diagram 2 A typical courtroom

(

)

Judge

Table

Clerk

Witness

Clerk

Lawyer

Lawyer Complainant

Defendant

Lawyer

22

-

-

64

( )

64 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at [28]

23

( )

65

-

rdquo

rdquo

rdquo 65

24

rdquo

rdquo

( )

(

( ) )

(

)

( )

25

66

(

) 67

68

66 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at para 29 (ldquo rdquo)

67 68 Christina Fink Living Silence in Burma (2nd ed Zed Books London 2009) at 134 as cited in

Fortify Rights ldquoMidnight Intrusion Ending Guest Registration and Household Inspections in

Myanmarrdquo (March 2015) Fortify Rights ltwwwfortifyrightsorggt at 12

26

၁၁

N k 69

-

-

( )

rdquo70

71

(

)

69 Cheesman above n 2 at 101 70 Cheesman n 2 at 117 71 See Part II subpart B above

27

Justice Base

customer

service trainings

Justice Base

( -၁)

၁၉( ) ၁

( )

28

( (၁) )

( - ) (၁)

( )

( - )

( - )

(

)

29

( - )

( )

( -၁)

( - )

( - )

30

31

( )

-

-

-

32

-

-

---------------------------- _________________________

33

( )

- 72 ၁

( )

( )

___________________________________________________________

( )

__________________________________________________ ( )

Yes No ( ______________________________________)

Yes No ___________________________________________________________

Yes No ( ________________________________________)

72

34

၁၁

____________________________________________________ Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No _________________ - Yes No - Yes No - ________________ Yes No ________________ - Yes No

( ______________________________________) ______ _______________________________ Yes No ___________________________________________________ Yes No __________________________________________________

( )

35

Yes No Yes No Yes No

Yes No - - Yes No - Yes No ___________________________ - Yes No -- Yes No - Yes No ( _____________)

၁၆ ( )

Yes No

Yes No

36

၁၉

( )

( )

Yes No Yes No

Yes No ____________

( )

Yes No Yes No

( )

37

- 73 ၁ gt gt၁ gt gt၁ gt +

[____ ____ ] ၆

[ ________________________________)

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

73

38

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

၉ cause list

Yes No

39

Yes No Yes No [ ____________________________________________)

၁၁

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

40

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No ___________________________________________

41

__________________________________________

Yes No [ ____________________________________________]

Yes No Yes No _____________________________________________________]

၁၆

Yes No [ ________________________________________________] Yes No [ ___________________________________________] Yes No

42

[ _________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________]

Yes No [ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________]

Yes No ____________________________________ ________________________________________________________

၁၉

Yes No ( ) _______________________________________________ [ ] Yes No [ ___________________________________________]

Yes No -

43

] - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------___________________________]

Yes No ______________________________________________ _________________________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________ ____________________________________________________----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Yes No _________________________________

44

( ) ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ Yes No

________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________

( )

Yes No __________________________________________________ Yes No -

Yes No _________________________________________________ ___________________

45

_________________________________________

Yes No ___________________________ ______________________

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No

46

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

47

Framing of the charges

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Final Argument

Yes No Yes No

ဍ Yes No

48

Yes No

Yes No Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Comments

49

- 1 2

3

4 5 a b c 6

7

8

[_______________________________]

9

10

Yes No

11

[ ________________________________)

12

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___]

50

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

13

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

14

[ _______________________________________]

1 cause list Yes

51

5

No

16

Yes No Yes No __________________________________________]

17

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

19

Yes No

20

Page 12: JUSTICE BASE - Progressive Voice...Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal 5 (2000), at pg. 25. 14 Nick Cheesman “Thin Rule of Law or Un-Rule of Law in Myanmar?”(2010) 82(4) Pacific

2

၁-

9

rdquo 10 International Commission of

Jurists 11

9 (၁) ၁၁( ) ၁၉( ) 10 Yanghee Lee ldquoReport of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in

Myanmarrdquo (18 March 2016) AHRC3171 at 15 11 International Commission of Jurists ldquoRe Implementable Action Plans from the ICJ to the

new Parliament amp Governmentrdquo (3 May 2016) lthttpswwwicjorgwp-

contentuploads201606Myanmar-Recommendation-to-NLD-Gvt-Advocacy-Analysis-Brief-

2016-ENGpdfgt at 5-6 See also International Commission of Jurists ldquoMyanmar Country

Profile prepared by the ICJ Centre for the Independence of Judges and Lawyersrdquo (2014)

High Court (Region or State)

District Courts

Other Courts Constituted by Law (eg Juvenile

Courts)

Courts of Self-Administered Zones

Township Courts

Courts of Self-Administered Divisions

3

၁၉၆

rdquo12

၁၉

၁၉

rdquo 13

၁၉

rdquo 14

rdquo

rdquo 15

rdquo 16

lthttpswwwicjorgwp-contentuploads201406CIJL-Country-Profile-Myanmar-June-

2014pdfgt 12 Myint Zan ldquoJudicial Independence in Burma No March Backwards Towards the Pastrdquo 1

Asian-Pacific Law amp Policy Journal 5 (2000) at pg 13 13 Id at 25

Asian-Pacific Law amp Policy Journal 5 (2000) at pg 25 14 Nick Cheesman ldquoThin Rule of Law or Un-Rule of Law in Myanmarrdquo (2010) 82(4) Pacific Affairs 597 at 612 15 Cheesman above n 2 at 161ndash162 16 International Commission of Jurists ldquoMyanmar Country Profile prepared by the ICJ Centre

4

17

18

19

20

21

for the Independence of Judges and Lawyersrdquo above n 14 at 11 See also Khaing Sape Saw

ldquoTackling Myanmar‟s Corruption Challengerdquo (April 2015) 13 Focus Asia Perspectives and

Analysis 1 17 Lee above n 13 at 15 International Bar Association‟s Human Rights Initiative ldquoThe Rule of

Law in Myanmar Challenges and Prospectsrdquo (International Bar Association London

December 2012) 18 See International Commission of Jurists ldquoRight to Counsel The Independence of Lawyers in

Myanmarrdquo (2013)ltwwwicjorggt at 31 DLA Piper New Perimeter ldquoMyanmar Rule of Law

Assessmentrdquo (March 2013) ltwwwnewperimetercomgt at 36 19 See International Commission of Jurists ldquoRight to Counsel The Independence of Lawyers in

Myanmarrdquo above n 20 Melissa Crouch ldquoRediscovering bdquoLaw‟ in Myanmarrdquo (2014) 23 Pac

Rim L amp Pol‟y J 543 at 545-46 20 Lee above n 13 at 15 21

၁( ) ၁ ( )( ) ( )( )

5

22

23

24

( )

-၁

22 The distinction between substantive law reform and advocacy for formal legality in the

context of ldquocause lawyeringrdquo in Myanmar is drawn in Nick Cheesman and Kyaw Min San

ldquoNot Just Defending Advocating for Law in Myanmarrdquo (2014) 31 Wis Int‟l L J 702 at 704ndash

705 23 See for instance the All Burma Federation of Student Unions‟ boycott of the ldquofailedrdquo court

system ldquoStudents to boycott failed judicial systemrdquo (March 15 2016) Asian Human Rights

Commission Press Release AHRC-STM-033-2016

lthttpwwwahrchkorgruleoflawasianetnewsphpid=AHRC-STM-033-2016gt See also

International Commission of Jurists above n 20 at 14-15 Justice Base ldquoVoices from the

Intersection Women‟s Access to Justice in the Plural Legal System of Myanmarrdquo (2016)

ltwwwjusticebaseorggt at 9 54 and 81 This problem is recognised by Myanmar‟s

government see ldquoMoving Forward to the Rule of Law Strategic Plan 2015ndash2019rdquo (Union

Attorney General‟s Office Nay Pyi Taw 2015) at 11 24 Jeremy Lever ldquoWhy Procedure is More Important than Substantive Lawrdquo 48 Int‟l amp Comp

LQ 285 (1999) at 300 discussing Tom Tyler Who Do People Obey the Law (Yale University

Press New Haven 1990)

6

rdquo 25 (

)

26

27

28

25

Ola Johan Settem ldquoApplications of the bdquoFair Hearing‟ Norm in ECHR Article 6(1) to Civil

Proceedingsrdquo (Springer New York 2016) at 120 See also Human Rights Committee General

Comment No 32 CCPRCGC32 (23 August 2007) at para 28 26 M Cherif Bassiouni ldquoHuman Rights in the Context of Criminal Justice Identifying

International Procedural Protections and Equivalent Protections in National Constitutionsrdquo

(1992ndash1993) 3 Duke J Comp Int‟l L 235 at 274 Anthony C Epstein ldquoOpen Courts Closed

Trialsrdquo (1986) 13 Litigation 23 at 24 27

( )

28 Bassiouni above n 28 at 274

7

rdquo29 30 31

-

၁၉( ) rdquo

၁ ( )

29 Sarosh Zaiwalla ldquoSecret courts justice conducted behind closed doors is no justice at allrdquo (19

August 2013) The Guardian ltwwwtheguardiancomgt 30 Tom Bingham ldquoThe Rule of Lawrdquo (Penguin London 2011) at 96-97 31

ldquodemocracies die behind closed doorsrdquo

see Detroit Free Press v Ashcroft 03 F3d 681 (6th Cir 2002) per Keith J

8

၁ ၉ -

(၁)

rdquo

( )

rdquo

၁၉( )

9

(

)

32

33

34

၁၉၉ ( )

၁၆ ၁၆

Burma Official

Secrets Act 1923 ၁

35

32 See Human Rights Committee n 27 at para 29 UN Commission on Human Rights rdquoThe

Siracusa Principles on the Limitation and Derogation Provisions in the International Covenant

on Civil and Political Rightsrdquo ECN419854 (28 September 1984) para 38(a) 33 Stefan Trechsel ldquoThe Significance of International Human Rights for Criminal Procedurerdquo

(2011) 6 Nat‟l Taiwan Univ Law Rev 1 at 191 (witness reprisal) Mole Nuala and Harby

ldquoThe Right to a Fair Trial A guide to the implementation of Article 6 of the European

Convention on Human Rightsrdquo (2006) at 22 34 UN Commission on Human Rights rdquoThe Siracusa Principles on the Limitation and

Derogation Provisions in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rightsrdquo above n

35 para 38(a) 35 ၁

10

36

37

Justice Base

Justice Base

38

36 ( ) 37

( ၁ ) wwwunionsupremecourtgovmm rdquo ( ) - ၁

38 Human Rights

Committee n 27 at para 29 (ldquo rdquo)

11

၁ - ၁

rdquo

rdquo 39

-

( UDHRrdquo)

40

(International Covenant on Civil and

P R g ( PR))

41

39 Eleven ldquoJudicial process must be independent and transparent says Chief justicerdquo ( ၉ ၁ ) httpwwwelevenmyanmarcomlocaljudicial-process-must-be-independent-and-

transparent-says-chief-justice 40 Universal Declaration of Human Rights GA Res 217A (III) (10 December 1948) art 10 41 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 999 UNTS 171 (opened for signature 16

December 1966 entered into force 23 March 1976) art 14

12

42

(H R g ) PR

rdquo

( )

43

44

PR

42 UN Commission on Human Rights rdquoThe Siracusa Principles on the Limitation and

Derogation Provisions in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rightsrdquo above n

35 para 38(a) 43 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at paras 3 16 and 28 44 At para 29

13

45

UDHR PR UDHR

46 UDHR 47

PR 48

49 UDHR

(UDHR

) UDHR

50

UDHR

ICCPR

51

45 At para 28 46 See ldquoYearbook of the United Nations 1948ndash1949rdquo The Yearbook of the United Nations

ltunyearbookunorggt at 535 47 Malcolm N Shaw International Law (7th ed Cambridge University Press Cambridge 2014)

at 279 48 Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review Myanmar AHRC3113 (23

December 015) at [1434] reaffirming the commitment expressed during the previous

Universal Periodic Review Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review

Myanmar AHRC179 (24 March 2011) at [1046] ( ) see AHRC3113 (23 December 2015) at [14348]

49 See United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner ldquoStatus of Ratificationrdquo

lthttpindicatorsohchrorggt 50 ldquo rdquo Restat 3d of the Foreign Relations Law of the US (1987) at sect

102(2) and (3) 51 Patrick Robinson ldquoThe Right to a Fair Trial in International Law with Specific Reference to

the Work of the ICTYrdquo (2009) 3 Berk J Intl L Publicist 1 at 5 See also Yvonne McDermott

ldquoThe Right to a Fair Trial in International Criminal Lawrdquo (PhD thesis National University of

Ireland Galway July 2013) at 17 and in a related context see ldquoCustomary International

Humanitarian Law Databaserdquo International Committee of the Red Cross lthttpsihl-

databasesicrcorgcustomary-ihlengdocsv1_rul_rule100gt at Rule 100

14

52

- Case Study

( H R g ( HRrdquo))

rdquo

rdquo

53

HR ၆

rdquo

rdquo 54

rdquo

rdquo

၆ 55

၁၉ HR

52 International Commission of Jurists ldquoTrial Observation Manual for Criminal Proceedingsrdquo

(22 July 2009) lthttpswwwicjorgcriminal-trials-and-human-rights-a-manual-on-trial-

observationgt at 84 53 UK Human Rights Act 1998 Schedule I Article 6(1) (emphasis added) 54 Philis v Greece Application No 1275087 1378088 1400388 (27 August 1991) at sect59 55 Ashingdane v the United Kingdom No 822578) (28 May 1985) at sect57

15

HR

( )

-၁

( )

-

၁ -

( )

56

57

56 57

16

( )

(

) (

)

58

( )

58

17

59

Justice Base

Justice

Base

၆ ( ၁

) ၆

၁၁၉ 60

-

59

( )

60

18

61

62

rdquo

61 62

19

( )

rdquo

rdquo

rdquo rdquo

rdquo

rdquo rdquo

rdquo

rdquo

-

rdquo rdquo

( )

20

- -

63 (

)

-

-

63 ၁

Antoni Slodkowski and Soe Zeya Tun ldquoMyanmar

opposition candidate attacked with machetesrdquo (29 October 2015) Reuters

httpwwwreuterscomarticleus-myanmar-election-violence-idUSKCN0SN2GU2015102

21

( )

Diagram 2 A typical courtroom

(

)

Judge

Table

Clerk

Witness

Clerk

Lawyer

Lawyer Complainant

Defendant

Lawyer

22

-

-

64

( )

64 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at [28]

23

( )

65

-

rdquo

rdquo

rdquo 65

24

rdquo

rdquo

( )

(

( ) )

(

)

( )

25

66

(

) 67

68

66 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at para 29 (ldquo rdquo)

67 68 Christina Fink Living Silence in Burma (2nd ed Zed Books London 2009) at 134 as cited in

Fortify Rights ldquoMidnight Intrusion Ending Guest Registration and Household Inspections in

Myanmarrdquo (March 2015) Fortify Rights ltwwwfortifyrightsorggt at 12

26

၁၁

N k 69

-

-

( )

rdquo70

71

(

)

69 Cheesman above n 2 at 101 70 Cheesman n 2 at 117 71 See Part II subpart B above

27

Justice Base

customer

service trainings

Justice Base

( -၁)

၁၉( ) ၁

( )

28

( (၁) )

( - ) (၁)

( )

( - )

( - )

(

)

29

( - )

( )

( -၁)

( - )

( - )

30

31

( )

-

-

-

32

-

-

---------------------------- _________________________

33

( )

- 72 ၁

( )

( )

___________________________________________________________

( )

__________________________________________________ ( )

Yes No ( ______________________________________)

Yes No ___________________________________________________________

Yes No ( ________________________________________)

72

34

၁၁

____________________________________________________ Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No _________________ - Yes No - Yes No - ________________ Yes No ________________ - Yes No

( ______________________________________) ______ _______________________________ Yes No ___________________________________________________ Yes No __________________________________________________

( )

35

Yes No Yes No Yes No

Yes No - - Yes No - Yes No ___________________________ - Yes No -- Yes No - Yes No ( _____________)

၁၆ ( )

Yes No

Yes No

36

၁၉

( )

( )

Yes No Yes No

Yes No ____________

( )

Yes No Yes No

( )

37

- 73 ၁ gt gt၁ gt gt၁ gt +

[____ ____ ] ၆

[ ________________________________)

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

73

38

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

၉ cause list

Yes No

39

Yes No Yes No [ ____________________________________________)

၁၁

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

40

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No ___________________________________________

41

__________________________________________

Yes No [ ____________________________________________]

Yes No Yes No _____________________________________________________]

၁၆

Yes No [ ________________________________________________] Yes No [ ___________________________________________] Yes No

42

[ _________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________]

Yes No [ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________]

Yes No ____________________________________ ________________________________________________________

၁၉

Yes No ( ) _______________________________________________ [ ] Yes No [ ___________________________________________]

Yes No -

43

] - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------___________________________]

Yes No ______________________________________________ _________________________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________ ____________________________________________________----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Yes No _________________________________

44

( ) ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ Yes No

________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________

( )

Yes No __________________________________________________ Yes No -

Yes No _________________________________________________ ___________________

45

_________________________________________

Yes No ___________________________ ______________________

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No

46

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

47

Framing of the charges

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Final Argument

Yes No Yes No

ဍ Yes No

48

Yes No

Yes No Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Comments

49

- 1 2

3

4 5 a b c 6

7

8

[_______________________________]

9

10

Yes No

11

[ ________________________________)

12

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___]

50

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

13

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

14

[ _______________________________________]

1 cause list Yes

51

5

No

16

Yes No Yes No __________________________________________]

17

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

19

Yes No

20

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3

၁၉၆

rdquo12

၁၉

၁၉

rdquo 13

၁၉

rdquo 14

rdquo

rdquo 15

rdquo 16

lthttpswwwicjorgwp-contentuploads201406CIJL-Country-Profile-Myanmar-June-

2014pdfgt 12 Myint Zan ldquoJudicial Independence in Burma No March Backwards Towards the Pastrdquo 1

Asian-Pacific Law amp Policy Journal 5 (2000) at pg 13 13 Id at 25

Asian-Pacific Law amp Policy Journal 5 (2000) at pg 25 14 Nick Cheesman ldquoThin Rule of Law or Un-Rule of Law in Myanmarrdquo (2010) 82(4) Pacific Affairs 597 at 612 15 Cheesman above n 2 at 161ndash162 16 International Commission of Jurists ldquoMyanmar Country Profile prepared by the ICJ Centre

4

17

18

19

20

21

for the Independence of Judges and Lawyersrdquo above n 14 at 11 See also Khaing Sape Saw

ldquoTackling Myanmar‟s Corruption Challengerdquo (April 2015) 13 Focus Asia Perspectives and

Analysis 1 17 Lee above n 13 at 15 International Bar Association‟s Human Rights Initiative ldquoThe Rule of

Law in Myanmar Challenges and Prospectsrdquo (International Bar Association London

December 2012) 18 See International Commission of Jurists ldquoRight to Counsel The Independence of Lawyers in

Myanmarrdquo (2013)ltwwwicjorggt at 31 DLA Piper New Perimeter ldquoMyanmar Rule of Law

Assessmentrdquo (March 2013) ltwwwnewperimetercomgt at 36 19 See International Commission of Jurists ldquoRight to Counsel The Independence of Lawyers in

Myanmarrdquo above n 20 Melissa Crouch ldquoRediscovering bdquoLaw‟ in Myanmarrdquo (2014) 23 Pac

Rim L amp Pol‟y J 543 at 545-46 20 Lee above n 13 at 15 21

၁( ) ၁ ( )( ) ( )( )

5

22

23

24

( )

-၁

22 The distinction between substantive law reform and advocacy for formal legality in the

context of ldquocause lawyeringrdquo in Myanmar is drawn in Nick Cheesman and Kyaw Min San

ldquoNot Just Defending Advocating for Law in Myanmarrdquo (2014) 31 Wis Int‟l L J 702 at 704ndash

705 23 See for instance the All Burma Federation of Student Unions‟ boycott of the ldquofailedrdquo court

system ldquoStudents to boycott failed judicial systemrdquo (March 15 2016) Asian Human Rights

Commission Press Release AHRC-STM-033-2016

lthttpwwwahrchkorgruleoflawasianetnewsphpid=AHRC-STM-033-2016gt See also

International Commission of Jurists above n 20 at 14-15 Justice Base ldquoVoices from the

Intersection Women‟s Access to Justice in the Plural Legal System of Myanmarrdquo (2016)

ltwwwjusticebaseorggt at 9 54 and 81 This problem is recognised by Myanmar‟s

government see ldquoMoving Forward to the Rule of Law Strategic Plan 2015ndash2019rdquo (Union

Attorney General‟s Office Nay Pyi Taw 2015) at 11 24 Jeremy Lever ldquoWhy Procedure is More Important than Substantive Lawrdquo 48 Int‟l amp Comp

LQ 285 (1999) at 300 discussing Tom Tyler Who Do People Obey the Law (Yale University

Press New Haven 1990)

6

rdquo 25 (

)

26

27

28

25

Ola Johan Settem ldquoApplications of the bdquoFair Hearing‟ Norm in ECHR Article 6(1) to Civil

Proceedingsrdquo (Springer New York 2016) at 120 See also Human Rights Committee General

Comment No 32 CCPRCGC32 (23 August 2007) at para 28 26 M Cherif Bassiouni ldquoHuman Rights in the Context of Criminal Justice Identifying

International Procedural Protections and Equivalent Protections in National Constitutionsrdquo

(1992ndash1993) 3 Duke J Comp Int‟l L 235 at 274 Anthony C Epstein ldquoOpen Courts Closed

Trialsrdquo (1986) 13 Litigation 23 at 24 27

( )

28 Bassiouni above n 28 at 274

7

rdquo29 30 31

-

၁၉( ) rdquo

၁ ( )

29 Sarosh Zaiwalla ldquoSecret courts justice conducted behind closed doors is no justice at allrdquo (19

August 2013) The Guardian ltwwwtheguardiancomgt 30 Tom Bingham ldquoThe Rule of Lawrdquo (Penguin London 2011) at 96-97 31

ldquodemocracies die behind closed doorsrdquo

see Detroit Free Press v Ashcroft 03 F3d 681 (6th Cir 2002) per Keith J

8

၁ ၉ -

(၁)

rdquo

( )

rdquo

၁၉( )

9

(

)

32

33

34

၁၉၉ ( )

၁၆ ၁၆

Burma Official

Secrets Act 1923 ၁

35

32 See Human Rights Committee n 27 at para 29 UN Commission on Human Rights rdquoThe

Siracusa Principles on the Limitation and Derogation Provisions in the International Covenant

on Civil and Political Rightsrdquo ECN419854 (28 September 1984) para 38(a) 33 Stefan Trechsel ldquoThe Significance of International Human Rights for Criminal Procedurerdquo

(2011) 6 Nat‟l Taiwan Univ Law Rev 1 at 191 (witness reprisal) Mole Nuala and Harby

ldquoThe Right to a Fair Trial A guide to the implementation of Article 6 of the European

Convention on Human Rightsrdquo (2006) at 22 34 UN Commission on Human Rights rdquoThe Siracusa Principles on the Limitation and

Derogation Provisions in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rightsrdquo above n

35 para 38(a) 35 ၁

10

36

37

Justice Base

Justice Base

38

36 ( ) 37

( ၁ ) wwwunionsupremecourtgovmm rdquo ( ) - ၁

38 Human Rights

Committee n 27 at para 29 (ldquo rdquo)

11

၁ - ၁

rdquo

rdquo 39

-

( UDHRrdquo)

40

(International Covenant on Civil and

P R g ( PR))

41

39 Eleven ldquoJudicial process must be independent and transparent says Chief justicerdquo ( ၉ ၁ ) httpwwwelevenmyanmarcomlocaljudicial-process-must-be-independent-and-

transparent-says-chief-justice 40 Universal Declaration of Human Rights GA Res 217A (III) (10 December 1948) art 10 41 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 999 UNTS 171 (opened for signature 16

December 1966 entered into force 23 March 1976) art 14

12

42

(H R g ) PR

rdquo

( )

43

44

PR

42 UN Commission on Human Rights rdquoThe Siracusa Principles on the Limitation and

Derogation Provisions in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rightsrdquo above n

35 para 38(a) 43 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at paras 3 16 and 28 44 At para 29

13

45

UDHR PR UDHR

46 UDHR 47

PR 48

49 UDHR

(UDHR

) UDHR

50

UDHR

ICCPR

51

45 At para 28 46 See ldquoYearbook of the United Nations 1948ndash1949rdquo The Yearbook of the United Nations

ltunyearbookunorggt at 535 47 Malcolm N Shaw International Law (7th ed Cambridge University Press Cambridge 2014)

at 279 48 Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review Myanmar AHRC3113 (23

December 015) at [1434] reaffirming the commitment expressed during the previous

Universal Periodic Review Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review

Myanmar AHRC179 (24 March 2011) at [1046] ( ) see AHRC3113 (23 December 2015) at [14348]

49 See United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner ldquoStatus of Ratificationrdquo

lthttpindicatorsohchrorggt 50 ldquo rdquo Restat 3d of the Foreign Relations Law of the US (1987) at sect

102(2) and (3) 51 Patrick Robinson ldquoThe Right to a Fair Trial in International Law with Specific Reference to

the Work of the ICTYrdquo (2009) 3 Berk J Intl L Publicist 1 at 5 See also Yvonne McDermott

ldquoThe Right to a Fair Trial in International Criminal Lawrdquo (PhD thesis National University of

Ireland Galway July 2013) at 17 and in a related context see ldquoCustomary International

Humanitarian Law Databaserdquo International Committee of the Red Cross lthttpsihl-

databasesicrcorgcustomary-ihlengdocsv1_rul_rule100gt at Rule 100

14

52

- Case Study

( H R g ( HRrdquo))

rdquo

rdquo

53

HR ၆

rdquo

rdquo 54

rdquo

rdquo

၆ 55

၁၉ HR

52 International Commission of Jurists ldquoTrial Observation Manual for Criminal Proceedingsrdquo

(22 July 2009) lthttpswwwicjorgcriminal-trials-and-human-rights-a-manual-on-trial-

observationgt at 84 53 UK Human Rights Act 1998 Schedule I Article 6(1) (emphasis added) 54 Philis v Greece Application No 1275087 1378088 1400388 (27 August 1991) at sect59 55 Ashingdane v the United Kingdom No 822578) (28 May 1985) at sect57

15

HR

( )

-၁

( )

-

၁ -

( )

56

57

56 57

16

( )

(

) (

)

58

( )

58

17

59

Justice Base

Justice

Base

၆ ( ၁

) ၆

၁၁၉ 60

-

59

( )

60

18

61

62

rdquo

61 62

19

( )

rdquo

rdquo

rdquo rdquo

rdquo

rdquo rdquo

rdquo

rdquo

-

rdquo rdquo

( )

20

- -

63 (

)

-

-

63 ၁

Antoni Slodkowski and Soe Zeya Tun ldquoMyanmar

opposition candidate attacked with machetesrdquo (29 October 2015) Reuters

httpwwwreuterscomarticleus-myanmar-election-violence-idUSKCN0SN2GU2015102

21

( )

Diagram 2 A typical courtroom

(

)

Judge

Table

Clerk

Witness

Clerk

Lawyer

Lawyer Complainant

Defendant

Lawyer

22

-

-

64

( )

64 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at [28]

23

( )

65

-

rdquo

rdquo

rdquo 65

24

rdquo

rdquo

( )

(

( ) )

(

)

( )

25

66

(

) 67

68

66 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at para 29 (ldquo rdquo)

67 68 Christina Fink Living Silence in Burma (2nd ed Zed Books London 2009) at 134 as cited in

Fortify Rights ldquoMidnight Intrusion Ending Guest Registration and Household Inspections in

Myanmarrdquo (March 2015) Fortify Rights ltwwwfortifyrightsorggt at 12

26

၁၁

N k 69

-

-

( )

rdquo70

71

(

)

69 Cheesman above n 2 at 101 70 Cheesman n 2 at 117 71 See Part II subpart B above

27

Justice Base

customer

service trainings

Justice Base

( -၁)

၁၉( ) ၁

( )

28

( (၁) )

( - ) (၁)

( )

( - )

( - )

(

)

29

( - )

( )

( -၁)

( - )

( - )

30

31

( )

-

-

-

32

-

-

---------------------------- _________________________

33

( )

- 72 ၁

( )

( )

___________________________________________________________

( )

__________________________________________________ ( )

Yes No ( ______________________________________)

Yes No ___________________________________________________________

Yes No ( ________________________________________)

72

34

၁၁

____________________________________________________ Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No _________________ - Yes No - Yes No - ________________ Yes No ________________ - Yes No

( ______________________________________) ______ _______________________________ Yes No ___________________________________________________ Yes No __________________________________________________

( )

35

Yes No Yes No Yes No

Yes No - - Yes No - Yes No ___________________________ - Yes No -- Yes No - Yes No ( _____________)

၁၆ ( )

Yes No

Yes No

36

၁၉

( )

( )

Yes No Yes No

Yes No ____________

( )

Yes No Yes No

( )

37

- 73 ၁ gt gt၁ gt gt၁ gt +

[____ ____ ] ၆

[ ________________________________)

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

73

38

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

၉ cause list

Yes No

39

Yes No Yes No [ ____________________________________________)

၁၁

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

40

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No ___________________________________________

41

__________________________________________

Yes No [ ____________________________________________]

Yes No Yes No _____________________________________________________]

၁၆

Yes No [ ________________________________________________] Yes No [ ___________________________________________] Yes No

42

[ _________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________]

Yes No [ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________]

Yes No ____________________________________ ________________________________________________________

၁၉

Yes No ( ) _______________________________________________ [ ] Yes No [ ___________________________________________]

Yes No -

43

] - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------___________________________]

Yes No ______________________________________________ _________________________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________ ____________________________________________________----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Yes No _________________________________

44

( ) ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ Yes No

________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________

( )

Yes No __________________________________________________ Yes No -

Yes No _________________________________________________ ___________________

45

_________________________________________

Yes No ___________________________ ______________________

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No

46

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

47

Framing of the charges

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Final Argument

Yes No Yes No

ဍ Yes No

48

Yes No

Yes No Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Comments

49

- 1 2

3

4 5 a b c 6

7

8

[_______________________________]

9

10

Yes No

11

[ ________________________________)

12

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___]

50

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

13

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

14

[ _______________________________________]

1 cause list Yes

51

5

No

16

Yes No Yes No __________________________________________]

17

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

19

Yes No

20

Page 14: JUSTICE BASE - Progressive Voice...Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal 5 (2000), at pg. 25. 14 Nick Cheesman “Thin Rule of Law or Un-Rule of Law in Myanmar?”(2010) 82(4) Pacific

4

17

18

19

20

21

for the Independence of Judges and Lawyersrdquo above n 14 at 11 See also Khaing Sape Saw

ldquoTackling Myanmar‟s Corruption Challengerdquo (April 2015) 13 Focus Asia Perspectives and

Analysis 1 17 Lee above n 13 at 15 International Bar Association‟s Human Rights Initiative ldquoThe Rule of

Law in Myanmar Challenges and Prospectsrdquo (International Bar Association London

December 2012) 18 See International Commission of Jurists ldquoRight to Counsel The Independence of Lawyers in

Myanmarrdquo (2013)ltwwwicjorggt at 31 DLA Piper New Perimeter ldquoMyanmar Rule of Law

Assessmentrdquo (March 2013) ltwwwnewperimetercomgt at 36 19 See International Commission of Jurists ldquoRight to Counsel The Independence of Lawyers in

Myanmarrdquo above n 20 Melissa Crouch ldquoRediscovering bdquoLaw‟ in Myanmarrdquo (2014) 23 Pac

Rim L amp Pol‟y J 543 at 545-46 20 Lee above n 13 at 15 21

၁( ) ၁ ( )( ) ( )( )

5

22

23

24

( )

-၁

22 The distinction between substantive law reform and advocacy for formal legality in the

context of ldquocause lawyeringrdquo in Myanmar is drawn in Nick Cheesman and Kyaw Min San

ldquoNot Just Defending Advocating for Law in Myanmarrdquo (2014) 31 Wis Int‟l L J 702 at 704ndash

705 23 See for instance the All Burma Federation of Student Unions‟ boycott of the ldquofailedrdquo court

system ldquoStudents to boycott failed judicial systemrdquo (March 15 2016) Asian Human Rights

Commission Press Release AHRC-STM-033-2016

lthttpwwwahrchkorgruleoflawasianetnewsphpid=AHRC-STM-033-2016gt See also

International Commission of Jurists above n 20 at 14-15 Justice Base ldquoVoices from the

Intersection Women‟s Access to Justice in the Plural Legal System of Myanmarrdquo (2016)

ltwwwjusticebaseorggt at 9 54 and 81 This problem is recognised by Myanmar‟s

government see ldquoMoving Forward to the Rule of Law Strategic Plan 2015ndash2019rdquo (Union

Attorney General‟s Office Nay Pyi Taw 2015) at 11 24 Jeremy Lever ldquoWhy Procedure is More Important than Substantive Lawrdquo 48 Int‟l amp Comp

LQ 285 (1999) at 300 discussing Tom Tyler Who Do People Obey the Law (Yale University

Press New Haven 1990)

6

rdquo 25 (

)

26

27

28

25

Ola Johan Settem ldquoApplications of the bdquoFair Hearing‟ Norm in ECHR Article 6(1) to Civil

Proceedingsrdquo (Springer New York 2016) at 120 See also Human Rights Committee General

Comment No 32 CCPRCGC32 (23 August 2007) at para 28 26 M Cherif Bassiouni ldquoHuman Rights in the Context of Criminal Justice Identifying

International Procedural Protections and Equivalent Protections in National Constitutionsrdquo

(1992ndash1993) 3 Duke J Comp Int‟l L 235 at 274 Anthony C Epstein ldquoOpen Courts Closed

Trialsrdquo (1986) 13 Litigation 23 at 24 27

( )

28 Bassiouni above n 28 at 274

7

rdquo29 30 31

-

၁၉( ) rdquo

၁ ( )

29 Sarosh Zaiwalla ldquoSecret courts justice conducted behind closed doors is no justice at allrdquo (19

August 2013) The Guardian ltwwwtheguardiancomgt 30 Tom Bingham ldquoThe Rule of Lawrdquo (Penguin London 2011) at 96-97 31

ldquodemocracies die behind closed doorsrdquo

see Detroit Free Press v Ashcroft 03 F3d 681 (6th Cir 2002) per Keith J

8

၁ ၉ -

(၁)

rdquo

( )

rdquo

၁၉( )

9

(

)

32

33

34

၁၉၉ ( )

၁၆ ၁၆

Burma Official

Secrets Act 1923 ၁

35

32 See Human Rights Committee n 27 at para 29 UN Commission on Human Rights rdquoThe

Siracusa Principles on the Limitation and Derogation Provisions in the International Covenant

on Civil and Political Rightsrdquo ECN419854 (28 September 1984) para 38(a) 33 Stefan Trechsel ldquoThe Significance of International Human Rights for Criminal Procedurerdquo

(2011) 6 Nat‟l Taiwan Univ Law Rev 1 at 191 (witness reprisal) Mole Nuala and Harby

ldquoThe Right to a Fair Trial A guide to the implementation of Article 6 of the European

Convention on Human Rightsrdquo (2006) at 22 34 UN Commission on Human Rights rdquoThe Siracusa Principles on the Limitation and

Derogation Provisions in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rightsrdquo above n

35 para 38(a) 35 ၁

10

36

37

Justice Base

Justice Base

38

36 ( ) 37

( ၁ ) wwwunionsupremecourtgovmm rdquo ( ) - ၁

38 Human Rights

Committee n 27 at para 29 (ldquo rdquo)

11

၁ - ၁

rdquo

rdquo 39

-

( UDHRrdquo)

40

(International Covenant on Civil and

P R g ( PR))

41

39 Eleven ldquoJudicial process must be independent and transparent says Chief justicerdquo ( ၉ ၁ ) httpwwwelevenmyanmarcomlocaljudicial-process-must-be-independent-and-

transparent-says-chief-justice 40 Universal Declaration of Human Rights GA Res 217A (III) (10 December 1948) art 10 41 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 999 UNTS 171 (opened for signature 16

December 1966 entered into force 23 March 1976) art 14

12

42

(H R g ) PR

rdquo

( )

43

44

PR

42 UN Commission on Human Rights rdquoThe Siracusa Principles on the Limitation and

Derogation Provisions in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rightsrdquo above n

35 para 38(a) 43 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at paras 3 16 and 28 44 At para 29

13

45

UDHR PR UDHR

46 UDHR 47

PR 48

49 UDHR

(UDHR

) UDHR

50

UDHR

ICCPR

51

45 At para 28 46 See ldquoYearbook of the United Nations 1948ndash1949rdquo The Yearbook of the United Nations

ltunyearbookunorggt at 535 47 Malcolm N Shaw International Law (7th ed Cambridge University Press Cambridge 2014)

at 279 48 Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review Myanmar AHRC3113 (23

December 015) at [1434] reaffirming the commitment expressed during the previous

Universal Periodic Review Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review

Myanmar AHRC179 (24 March 2011) at [1046] ( ) see AHRC3113 (23 December 2015) at [14348]

49 See United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner ldquoStatus of Ratificationrdquo

lthttpindicatorsohchrorggt 50 ldquo rdquo Restat 3d of the Foreign Relations Law of the US (1987) at sect

102(2) and (3) 51 Patrick Robinson ldquoThe Right to a Fair Trial in International Law with Specific Reference to

the Work of the ICTYrdquo (2009) 3 Berk J Intl L Publicist 1 at 5 See also Yvonne McDermott

ldquoThe Right to a Fair Trial in International Criminal Lawrdquo (PhD thesis National University of

Ireland Galway July 2013) at 17 and in a related context see ldquoCustomary International

Humanitarian Law Databaserdquo International Committee of the Red Cross lthttpsihl-

databasesicrcorgcustomary-ihlengdocsv1_rul_rule100gt at Rule 100

14

52

- Case Study

( H R g ( HRrdquo))

rdquo

rdquo

53

HR ၆

rdquo

rdquo 54

rdquo

rdquo

၆ 55

၁၉ HR

52 International Commission of Jurists ldquoTrial Observation Manual for Criminal Proceedingsrdquo

(22 July 2009) lthttpswwwicjorgcriminal-trials-and-human-rights-a-manual-on-trial-

observationgt at 84 53 UK Human Rights Act 1998 Schedule I Article 6(1) (emphasis added) 54 Philis v Greece Application No 1275087 1378088 1400388 (27 August 1991) at sect59 55 Ashingdane v the United Kingdom No 822578) (28 May 1985) at sect57

15

HR

( )

-၁

( )

-

၁ -

( )

56

57

56 57

16

( )

(

) (

)

58

( )

58

17

59

Justice Base

Justice

Base

၆ ( ၁

) ၆

၁၁၉ 60

-

59

( )

60

18

61

62

rdquo

61 62

19

( )

rdquo

rdquo

rdquo rdquo

rdquo

rdquo rdquo

rdquo

rdquo

-

rdquo rdquo

( )

20

- -

63 (

)

-

-

63 ၁

Antoni Slodkowski and Soe Zeya Tun ldquoMyanmar

opposition candidate attacked with machetesrdquo (29 October 2015) Reuters

httpwwwreuterscomarticleus-myanmar-election-violence-idUSKCN0SN2GU2015102

21

( )

Diagram 2 A typical courtroom

(

)

Judge

Table

Clerk

Witness

Clerk

Lawyer

Lawyer Complainant

Defendant

Lawyer

22

-

-

64

( )

64 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at [28]

23

( )

65

-

rdquo

rdquo

rdquo 65

24

rdquo

rdquo

( )

(

( ) )

(

)

( )

25

66

(

) 67

68

66 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at para 29 (ldquo rdquo)

67 68 Christina Fink Living Silence in Burma (2nd ed Zed Books London 2009) at 134 as cited in

Fortify Rights ldquoMidnight Intrusion Ending Guest Registration and Household Inspections in

Myanmarrdquo (March 2015) Fortify Rights ltwwwfortifyrightsorggt at 12

26

၁၁

N k 69

-

-

( )

rdquo70

71

(

)

69 Cheesman above n 2 at 101 70 Cheesman n 2 at 117 71 See Part II subpart B above

27

Justice Base

customer

service trainings

Justice Base

( -၁)

၁၉( ) ၁

( )

28

( (၁) )

( - ) (၁)

( )

( - )

( - )

(

)

29

( - )

( )

( -၁)

( - )

( - )

30

31

( )

-

-

-

32

-

-

---------------------------- _________________________

33

( )

- 72 ၁

( )

( )

___________________________________________________________

( )

__________________________________________________ ( )

Yes No ( ______________________________________)

Yes No ___________________________________________________________

Yes No ( ________________________________________)

72

34

၁၁

____________________________________________________ Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No _________________ - Yes No - Yes No - ________________ Yes No ________________ - Yes No

( ______________________________________) ______ _______________________________ Yes No ___________________________________________________ Yes No __________________________________________________

( )

35

Yes No Yes No Yes No

Yes No - - Yes No - Yes No ___________________________ - Yes No -- Yes No - Yes No ( _____________)

၁၆ ( )

Yes No

Yes No

36

၁၉

( )

( )

Yes No Yes No

Yes No ____________

( )

Yes No Yes No

( )

37

- 73 ၁ gt gt၁ gt gt၁ gt +

[____ ____ ] ၆

[ ________________________________)

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

73

38

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

၉ cause list

Yes No

39

Yes No Yes No [ ____________________________________________)

၁၁

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

40

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No ___________________________________________

41

__________________________________________

Yes No [ ____________________________________________]

Yes No Yes No _____________________________________________________]

၁၆

Yes No [ ________________________________________________] Yes No [ ___________________________________________] Yes No

42

[ _________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________]

Yes No [ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________]

Yes No ____________________________________ ________________________________________________________

၁၉

Yes No ( ) _______________________________________________ [ ] Yes No [ ___________________________________________]

Yes No -

43

] - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------___________________________]

Yes No ______________________________________________ _________________________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________ ____________________________________________________----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Yes No _________________________________

44

( ) ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ Yes No

________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________

( )

Yes No __________________________________________________ Yes No -

Yes No _________________________________________________ ___________________

45

_________________________________________

Yes No ___________________________ ______________________

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No

46

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

47

Framing of the charges

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Final Argument

Yes No Yes No

ဍ Yes No

48

Yes No

Yes No Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Comments

49

- 1 2

3

4 5 a b c 6

7

8

[_______________________________]

9

10

Yes No

11

[ ________________________________)

12

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___]

50

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

13

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

14

[ _______________________________________]

1 cause list Yes

51

5

No

16

Yes No Yes No __________________________________________]

17

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

19

Yes No

20

Page 15: JUSTICE BASE - Progressive Voice...Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal 5 (2000), at pg. 25. 14 Nick Cheesman “Thin Rule of Law or Un-Rule of Law in Myanmar?”(2010) 82(4) Pacific

5

22

23

24

( )

-၁

22 The distinction between substantive law reform and advocacy for formal legality in the

context of ldquocause lawyeringrdquo in Myanmar is drawn in Nick Cheesman and Kyaw Min San

ldquoNot Just Defending Advocating for Law in Myanmarrdquo (2014) 31 Wis Int‟l L J 702 at 704ndash

705 23 See for instance the All Burma Federation of Student Unions‟ boycott of the ldquofailedrdquo court

system ldquoStudents to boycott failed judicial systemrdquo (March 15 2016) Asian Human Rights

Commission Press Release AHRC-STM-033-2016

lthttpwwwahrchkorgruleoflawasianetnewsphpid=AHRC-STM-033-2016gt See also

International Commission of Jurists above n 20 at 14-15 Justice Base ldquoVoices from the

Intersection Women‟s Access to Justice in the Plural Legal System of Myanmarrdquo (2016)

ltwwwjusticebaseorggt at 9 54 and 81 This problem is recognised by Myanmar‟s

government see ldquoMoving Forward to the Rule of Law Strategic Plan 2015ndash2019rdquo (Union

Attorney General‟s Office Nay Pyi Taw 2015) at 11 24 Jeremy Lever ldquoWhy Procedure is More Important than Substantive Lawrdquo 48 Int‟l amp Comp

LQ 285 (1999) at 300 discussing Tom Tyler Who Do People Obey the Law (Yale University

Press New Haven 1990)

6

rdquo 25 (

)

26

27

28

25

Ola Johan Settem ldquoApplications of the bdquoFair Hearing‟ Norm in ECHR Article 6(1) to Civil

Proceedingsrdquo (Springer New York 2016) at 120 See also Human Rights Committee General

Comment No 32 CCPRCGC32 (23 August 2007) at para 28 26 M Cherif Bassiouni ldquoHuman Rights in the Context of Criminal Justice Identifying

International Procedural Protections and Equivalent Protections in National Constitutionsrdquo

(1992ndash1993) 3 Duke J Comp Int‟l L 235 at 274 Anthony C Epstein ldquoOpen Courts Closed

Trialsrdquo (1986) 13 Litigation 23 at 24 27

( )

28 Bassiouni above n 28 at 274

7

rdquo29 30 31

-

၁၉( ) rdquo

၁ ( )

29 Sarosh Zaiwalla ldquoSecret courts justice conducted behind closed doors is no justice at allrdquo (19

August 2013) The Guardian ltwwwtheguardiancomgt 30 Tom Bingham ldquoThe Rule of Lawrdquo (Penguin London 2011) at 96-97 31

ldquodemocracies die behind closed doorsrdquo

see Detroit Free Press v Ashcroft 03 F3d 681 (6th Cir 2002) per Keith J

8

၁ ၉ -

(၁)

rdquo

( )

rdquo

၁၉( )

9

(

)

32

33

34

၁၉၉ ( )

၁၆ ၁၆

Burma Official

Secrets Act 1923 ၁

35

32 See Human Rights Committee n 27 at para 29 UN Commission on Human Rights rdquoThe

Siracusa Principles on the Limitation and Derogation Provisions in the International Covenant

on Civil and Political Rightsrdquo ECN419854 (28 September 1984) para 38(a) 33 Stefan Trechsel ldquoThe Significance of International Human Rights for Criminal Procedurerdquo

(2011) 6 Nat‟l Taiwan Univ Law Rev 1 at 191 (witness reprisal) Mole Nuala and Harby

ldquoThe Right to a Fair Trial A guide to the implementation of Article 6 of the European

Convention on Human Rightsrdquo (2006) at 22 34 UN Commission on Human Rights rdquoThe Siracusa Principles on the Limitation and

Derogation Provisions in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rightsrdquo above n

35 para 38(a) 35 ၁

10

36

37

Justice Base

Justice Base

38

36 ( ) 37

( ၁ ) wwwunionsupremecourtgovmm rdquo ( ) - ၁

38 Human Rights

Committee n 27 at para 29 (ldquo rdquo)

11

၁ - ၁

rdquo

rdquo 39

-

( UDHRrdquo)

40

(International Covenant on Civil and

P R g ( PR))

41

39 Eleven ldquoJudicial process must be independent and transparent says Chief justicerdquo ( ၉ ၁ ) httpwwwelevenmyanmarcomlocaljudicial-process-must-be-independent-and-

transparent-says-chief-justice 40 Universal Declaration of Human Rights GA Res 217A (III) (10 December 1948) art 10 41 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 999 UNTS 171 (opened for signature 16

December 1966 entered into force 23 March 1976) art 14

12

42

(H R g ) PR

rdquo

( )

43

44

PR

42 UN Commission on Human Rights rdquoThe Siracusa Principles on the Limitation and

Derogation Provisions in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rightsrdquo above n

35 para 38(a) 43 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at paras 3 16 and 28 44 At para 29

13

45

UDHR PR UDHR

46 UDHR 47

PR 48

49 UDHR

(UDHR

) UDHR

50

UDHR

ICCPR

51

45 At para 28 46 See ldquoYearbook of the United Nations 1948ndash1949rdquo The Yearbook of the United Nations

ltunyearbookunorggt at 535 47 Malcolm N Shaw International Law (7th ed Cambridge University Press Cambridge 2014)

at 279 48 Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review Myanmar AHRC3113 (23

December 015) at [1434] reaffirming the commitment expressed during the previous

Universal Periodic Review Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review

Myanmar AHRC179 (24 March 2011) at [1046] ( ) see AHRC3113 (23 December 2015) at [14348]

49 See United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner ldquoStatus of Ratificationrdquo

lthttpindicatorsohchrorggt 50 ldquo rdquo Restat 3d of the Foreign Relations Law of the US (1987) at sect

102(2) and (3) 51 Patrick Robinson ldquoThe Right to a Fair Trial in International Law with Specific Reference to

the Work of the ICTYrdquo (2009) 3 Berk J Intl L Publicist 1 at 5 See also Yvonne McDermott

ldquoThe Right to a Fair Trial in International Criminal Lawrdquo (PhD thesis National University of

Ireland Galway July 2013) at 17 and in a related context see ldquoCustomary International

Humanitarian Law Databaserdquo International Committee of the Red Cross lthttpsihl-

databasesicrcorgcustomary-ihlengdocsv1_rul_rule100gt at Rule 100

14

52

- Case Study

( H R g ( HRrdquo))

rdquo

rdquo

53

HR ၆

rdquo

rdquo 54

rdquo

rdquo

၆ 55

၁၉ HR

52 International Commission of Jurists ldquoTrial Observation Manual for Criminal Proceedingsrdquo

(22 July 2009) lthttpswwwicjorgcriminal-trials-and-human-rights-a-manual-on-trial-

observationgt at 84 53 UK Human Rights Act 1998 Schedule I Article 6(1) (emphasis added) 54 Philis v Greece Application No 1275087 1378088 1400388 (27 August 1991) at sect59 55 Ashingdane v the United Kingdom No 822578) (28 May 1985) at sect57

15

HR

( )

-၁

( )

-

၁ -

( )

56

57

56 57

16

( )

(

) (

)

58

( )

58

17

59

Justice Base

Justice

Base

၆ ( ၁

) ၆

၁၁၉ 60

-

59

( )

60

18

61

62

rdquo

61 62

19

( )

rdquo

rdquo

rdquo rdquo

rdquo

rdquo rdquo

rdquo

rdquo

-

rdquo rdquo

( )

20

- -

63 (

)

-

-

63 ၁

Antoni Slodkowski and Soe Zeya Tun ldquoMyanmar

opposition candidate attacked with machetesrdquo (29 October 2015) Reuters

httpwwwreuterscomarticleus-myanmar-election-violence-idUSKCN0SN2GU2015102

21

( )

Diagram 2 A typical courtroom

(

)

Judge

Table

Clerk

Witness

Clerk

Lawyer

Lawyer Complainant

Defendant

Lawyer

22

-

-

64

( )

64 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at [28]

23

( )

65

-

rdquo

rdquo

rdquo 65

24

rdquo

rdquo

( )

(

( ) )

(

)

( )

25

66

(

) 67

68

66 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at para 29 (ldquo rdquo)

67 68 Christina Fink Living Silence in Burma (2nd ed Zed Books London 2009) at 134 as cited in

Fortify Rights ldquoMidnight Intrusion Ending Guest Registration and Household Inspections in

Myanmarrdquo (March 2015) Fortify Rights ltwwwfortifyrightsorggt at 12

26

၁၁

N k 69

-

-

( )

rdquo70

71

(

)

69 Cheesman above n 2 at 101 70 Cheesman n 2 at 117 71 See Part II subpart B above

27

Justice Base

customer

service trainings

Justice Base

( -၁)

၁၉( ) ၁

( )

28

( (၁) )

( - ) (၁)

( )

( - )

( - )

(

)

29

( - )

( )

( -၁)

( - )

( - )

30

31

( )

-

-

-

32

-

-

---------------------------- _________________________

33

( )

- 72 ၁

( )

( )

___________________________________________________________

( )

__________________________________________________ ( )

Yes No ( ______________________________________)

Yes No ___________________________________________________________

Yes No ( ________________________________________)

72

34

၁၁

____________________________________________________ Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No _________________ - Yes No - Yes No - ________________ Yes No ________________ - Yes No

( ______________________________________) ______ _______________________________ Yes No ___________________________________________________ Yes No __________________________________________________

( )

35

Yes No Yes No Yes No

Yes No - - Yes No - Yes No ___________________________ - Yes No -- Yes No - Yes No ( _____________)

၁၆ ( )

Yes No

Yes No

36

၁၉

( )

( )

Yes No Yes No

Yes No ____________

( )

Yes No Yes No

( )

37

- 73 ၁ gt gt၁ gt gt၁ gt +

[____ ____ ] ၆

[ ________________________________)

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

73

38

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

၉ cause list

Yes No

39

Yes No Yes No [ ____________________________________________)

၁၁

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

40

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No ___________________________________________

41

__________________________________________

Yes No [ ____________________________________________]

Yes No Yes No _____________________________________________________]

၁၆

Yes No [ ________________________________________________] Yes No [ ___________________________________________] Yes No

42

[ _________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________]

Yes No [ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________]

Yes No ____________________________________ ________________________________________________________

၁၉

Yes No ( ) _______________________________________________ [ ] Yes No [ ___________________________________________]

Yes No -

43

] - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------___________________________]

Yes No ______________________________________________ _________________________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________ ____________________________________________________----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Yes No _________________________________

44

( ) ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ Yes No

________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________

( )

Yes No __________________________________________________ Yes No -

Yes No _________________________________________________ ___________________

45

_________________________________________

Yes No ___________________________ ______________________

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No

46

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

47

Framing of the charges

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Final Argument

Yes No Yes No

ဍ Yes No

48

Yes No

Yes No Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Comments

49

- 1 2

3

4 5 a b c 6

7

8

[_______________________________]

9

10

Yes No

11

[ ________________________________)

12

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___]

50

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

13

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

14

[ _______________________________________]

1 cause list Yes

51

5

No

16

Yes No Yes No __________________________________________]

17

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

19

Yes No

20

Page 16: JUSTICE BASE - Progressive Voice...Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal 5 (2000), at pg. 25. 14 Nick Cheesman “Thin Rule of Law or Un-Rule of Law in Myanmar?”(2010) 82(4) Pacific

6

rdquo 25 (

)

26

27

28

25

Ola Johan Settem ldquoApplications of the bdquoFair Hearing‟ Norm in ECHR Article 6(1) to Civil

Proceedingsrdquo (Springer New York 2016) at 120 See also Human Rights Committee General

Comment No 32 CCPRCGC32 (23 August 2007) at para 28 26 M Cherif Bassiouni ldquoHuman Rights in the Context of Criminal Justice Identifying

International Procedural Protections and Equivalent Protections in National Constitutionsrdquo

(1992ndash1993) 3 Duke J Comp Int‟l L 235 at 274 Anthony C Epstein ldquoOpen Courts Closed

Trialsrdquo (1986) 13 Litigation 23 at 24 27

( )

28 Bassiouni above n 28 at 274

7

rdquo29 30 31

-

၁၉( ) rdquo

၁ ( )

29 Sarosh Zaiwalla ldquoSecret courts justice conducted behind closed doors is no justice at allrdquo (19

August 2013) The Guardian ltwwwtheguardiancomgt 30 Tom Bingham ldquoThe Rule of Lawrdquo (Penguin London 2011) at 96-97 31

ldquodemocracies die behind closed doorsrdquo

see Detroit Free Press v Ashcroft 03 F3d 681 (6th Cir 2002) per Keith J

8

၁ ၉ -

(၁)

rdquo

( )

rdquo

၁၉( )

9

(

)

32

33

34

၁၉၉ ( )

၁၆ ၁၆

Burma Official

Secrets Act 1923 ၁

35

32 See Human Rights Committee n 27 at para 29 UN Commission on Human Rights rdquoThe

Siracusa Principles on the Limitation and Derogation Provisions in the International Covenant

on Civil and Political Rightsrdquo ECN419854 (28 September 1984) para 38(a) 33 Stefan Trechsel ldquoThe Significance of International Human Rights for Criminal Procedurerdquo

(2011) 6 Nat‟l Taiwan Univ Law Rev 1 at 191 (witness reprisal) Mole Nuala and Harby

ldquoThe Right to a Fair Trial A guide to the implementation of Article 6 of the European

Convention on Human Rightsrdquo (2006) at 22 34 UN Commission on Human Rights rdquoThe Siracusa Principles on the Limitation and

Derogation Provisions in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rightsrdquo above n

35 para 38(a) 35 ၁

10

36

37

Justice Base

Justice Base

38

36 ( ) 37

( ၁ ) wwwunionsupremecourtgovmm rdquo ( ) - ၁

38 Human Rights

Committee n 27 at para 29 (ldquo rdquo)

11

၁ - ၁

rdquo

rdquo 39

-

( UDHRrdquo)

40

(International Covenant on Civil and

P R g ( PR))

41

39 Eleven ldquoJudicial process must be independent and transparent says Chief justicerdquo ( ၉ ၁ ) httpwwwelevenmyanmarcomlocaljudicial-process-must-be-independent-and-

transparent-says-chief-justice 40 Universal Declaration of Human Rights GA Res 217A (III) (10 December 1948) art 10 41 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 999 UNTS 171 (opened for signature 16

December 1966 entered into force 23 March 1976) art 14

12

42

(H R g ) PR

rdquo

( )

43

44

PR

42 UN Commission on Human Rights rdquoThe Siracusa Principles on the Limitation and

Derogation Provisions in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rightsrdquo above n

35 para 38(a) 43 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at paras 3 16 and 28 44 At para 29

13

45

UDHR PR UDHR

46 UDHR 47

PR 48

49 UDHR

(UDHR

) UDHR

50

UDHR

ICCPR

51

45 At para 28 46 See ldquoYearbook of the United Nations 1948ndash1949rdquo The Yearbook of the United Nations

ltunyearbookunorggt at 535 47 Malcolm N Shaw International Law (7th ed Cambridge University Press Cambridge 2014)

at 279 48 Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review Myanmar AHRC3113 (23

December 015) at [1434] reaffirming the commitment expressed during the previous

Universal Periodic Review Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review

Myanmar AHRC179 (24 March 2011) at [1046] ( ) see AHRC3113 (23 December 2015) at [14348]

49 See United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner ldquoStatus of Ratificationrdquo

lthttpindicatorsohchrorggt 50 ldquo rdquo Restat 3d of the Foreign Relations Law of the US (1987) at sect

102(2) and (3) 51 Patrick Robinson ldquoThe Right to a Fair Trial in International Law with Specific Reference to

the Work of the ICTYrdquo (2009) 3 Berk J Intl L Publicist 1 at 5 See also Yvonne McDermott

ldquoThe Right to a Fair Trial in International Criminal Lawrdquo (PhD thesis National University of

Ireland Galway July 2013) at 17 and in a related context see ldquoCustomary International

Humanitarian Law Databaserdquo International Committee of the Red Cross lthttpsihl-

databasesicrcorgcustomary-ihlengdocsv1_rul_rule100gt at Rule 100

14

52

- Case Study

( H R g ( HRrdquo))

rdquo

rdquo

53

HR ၆

rdquo

rdquo 54

rdquo

rdquo

၆ 55

၁၉ HR

52 International Commission of Jurists ldquoTrial Observation Manual for Criminal Proceedingsrdquo

(22 July 2009) lthttpswwwicjorgcriminal-trials-and-human-rights-a-manual-on-trial-

observationgt at 84 53 UK Human Rights Act 1998 Schedule I Article 6(1) (emphasis added) 54 Philis v Greece Application No 1275087 1378088 1400388 (27 August 1991) at sect59 55 Ashingdane v the United Kingdom No 822578) (28 May 1985) at sect57

15

HR

( )

-၁

( )

-

၁ -

( )

56

57

56 57

16

( )

(

) (

)

58

( )

58

17

59

Justice Base

Justice

Base

၆ ( ၁

) ၆

၁၁၉ 60

-

59

( )

60

18

61

62

rdquo

61 62

19

( )

rdquo

rdquo

rdquo rdquo

rdquo

rdquo rdquo

rdquo

rdquo

-

rdquo rdquo

( )

20

- -

63 (

)

-

-

63 ၁

Antoni Slodkowski and Soe Zeya Tun ldquoMyanmar

opposition candidate attacked with machetesrdquo (29 October 2015) Reuters

httpwwwreuterscomarticleus-myanmar-election-violence-idUSKCN0SN2GU2015102

21

( )

Diagram 2 A typical courtroom

(

)

Judge

Table

Clerk

Witness

Clerk

Lawyer

Lawyer Complainant

Defendant

Lawyer

22

-

-

64

( )

64 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at [28]

23

( )

65

-

rdquo

rdquo

rdquo 65

24

rdquo

rdquo

( )

(

( ) )

(

)

( )

25

66

(

) 67

68

66 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at para 29 (ldquo rdquo)

67 68 Christina Fink Living Silence in Burma (2nd ed Zed Books London 2009) at 134 as cited in

Fortify Rights ldquoMidnight Intrusion Ending Guest Registration and Household Inspections in

Myanmarrdquo (March 2015) Fortify Rights ltwwwfortifyrightsorggt at 12

26

၁၁

N k 69

-

-

( )

rdquo70

71

(

)

69 Cheesman above n 2 at 101 70 Cheesman n 2 at 117 71 See Part II subpart B above

27

Justice Base

customer

service trainings

Justice Base

( -၁)

၁၉( ) ၁

( )

28

( (၁) )

( - ) (၁)

( )

( - )

( - )

(

)

29

( - )

( )

( -၁)

( - )

( - )

30

31

( )

-

-

-

32

-

-

---------------------------- _________________________

33

( )

- 72 ၁

( )

( )

___________________________________________________________

( )

__________________________________________________ ( )

Yes No ( ______________________________________)

Yes No ___________________________________________________________

Yes No ( ________________________________________)

72

34

၁၁

____________________________________________________ Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No _________________ - Yes No - Yes No - ________________ Yes No ________________ - Yes No

( ______________________________________) ______ _______________________________ Yes No ___________________________________________________ Yes No __________________________________________________

( )

35

Yes No Yes No Yes No

Yes No - - Yes No - Yes No ___________________________ - Yes No -- Yes No - Yes No ( _____________)

၁၆ ( )

Yes No

Yes No

36

၁၉

( )

( )

Yes No Yes No

Yes No ____________

( )

Yes No Yes No

( )

37

- 73 ၁ gt gt၁ gt gt၁ gt +

[____ ____ ] ၆

[ ________________________________)

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

73

38

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

၉ cause list

Yes No

39

Yes No Yes No [ ____________________________________________)

၁၁

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

40

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No ___________________________________________

41

__________________________________________

Yes No [ ____________________________________________]

Yes No Yes No _____________________________________________________]

၁၆

Yes No [ ________________________________________________] Yes No [ ___________________________________________] Yes No

42

[ _________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________]

Yes No [ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________]

Yes No ____________________________________ ________________________________________________________

၁၉

Yes No ( ) _______________________________________________ [ ] Yes No [ ___________________________________________]

Yes No -

43

] - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------___________________________]

Yes No ______________________________________________ _________________________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________ ____________________________________________________----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Yes No _________________________________

44

( ) ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ Yes No

________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________

( )

Yes No __________________________________________________ Yes No -

Yes No _________________________________________________ ___________________

45

_________________________________________

Yes No ___________________________ ______________________

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No

46

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

47

Framing of the charges

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Final Argument

Yes No Yes No

ဍ Yes No

48

Yes No

Yes No Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Comments

49

- 1 2

3

4 5 a b c 6

7

8

[_______________________________]

9

10

Yes No

11

[ ________________________________)

12

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___]

50

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

13

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

14

[ _______________________________________]

1 cause list Yes

51

5

No

16

Yes No Yes No __________________________________________]

17

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

19

Yes No

20

Page 17: JUSTICE BASE - Progressive Voice...Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal 5 (2000), at pg. 25. 14 Nick Cheesman “Thin Rule of Law or Un-Rule of Law in Myanmar?”(2010) 82(4) Pacific

7

rdquo29 30 31

-

၁၉( ) rdquo

၁ ( )

29 Sarosh Zaiwalla ldquoSecret courts justice conducted behind closed doors is no justice at allrdquo (19

August 2013) The Guardian ltwwwtheguardiancomgt 30 Tom Bingham ldquoThe Rule of Lawrdquo (Penguin London 2011) at 96-97 31

ldquodemocracies die behind closed doorsrdquo

see Detroit Free Press v Ashcroft 03 F3d 681 (6th Cir 2002) per Keith J

8

၁ ၉ -

(၁)

rdquo

( )

rdquo

၁၉( )

9

(

)

32

33

34

၁၉၉ ( )

၁၆ ၁၆

Burma Official

Secrets Act 1923 ၁

35

32 See Human Rights Committee n 27 at para 29 UN Commission on Human Rights rdquoThe

Siracusa Principles on the Limitation and Derogation Provisions in the International Covenant

on Civil and Political Rightsrdquo ECN419854 (28 September 1984) para 38(a) 33 Stefan Trechsel ldquoThe Significance of International Human Rights for Criminal Procedurerdquo

(2011) 6 Nat‟l Taiwan Univ Law Rev 1 at 191 (witness reprisal) Mole Nuala and Harby

ldquoThe Right to a Fair Trial A guide to the implementation of Article 6 of the European

Convention on Human Rightsrdquo (2006) at 22 34 UN Commission on Human Rights rdquoThe Siracusa Principles on the Limitation and

Derogation Provisions in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rightsrdquo above n

35 para 38(a) 35 ၁

10

36

37

Justice Base

Justice Base

38

36 ( ) 37

( ၁ ) wwwunionsupremecourtgovmm rdquo ( ) - ၁

38 Human Rights

Committee n 27 at para 29 (ldquo rdquo)

11

၁ - ၁

rdquo

rdquo 39

-

( UDHRrdquo)

40

(International Covenant on Civil and

P R g ( PR))

41

39 Eleven ldquoJudicial process must be independent and transparent says Chief justicerdquo ( ၉ ၁ ) httpwwwelevenmyanmarcomlocaljudicial-process-must-be-independent-and-

transparent-says-chief-justice 40 Universal Declaration of Human Rights GA Res 217A (III) (10 December 1948) art 10 41 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 999 UNTS 171 (opened for signature 16

December 1966 entered into force 23 March 1976) art 14

12

42

(H R g ) PR

rdquo

( )

43

44

PR

42 UN Commission on Human Rights rdquoThe Siracusa Principles on the Limitation and

Derogation Provisions in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rightsrdquo above n

35 para 38(a) 43 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at paras 3 16 and 28 44 At para 29

13

45

UDHR PR UDHR

46 UDHR 47

PR 48

49 UDHR

(UDHR

) UDHR

50

UDHR

ICCPR

51

45 At para 28 46 See ldquoYearbook of the United Nations 1948ndash1949rdquo The Yearbook of the United Nations

ltunyearbookunorggt at 535 47 Malcolm N Shaw International Law (7th ed Cambridge University Press Cambridge 2014)

at 279 48 Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review Myanmar AHRC3113 (23

December 015) at [1434] reaffirming the commitment expressed during the previous

Universal Periodic Review Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review

Myanmar AHRC179 (24 March 2011) at [1046] ( ) see AHRC3113 (23 December 2015) at [14348]

49 See United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner ldquoStatus of Ratificationrdquo

lthttpindicatorsohchrorggt 50 ldquo rdquo Restat 3d of the Foreign Relations Law of the US (1987) at sect

102(2) and (3) 51 Patrick Robinson ldquoThe Right to a Fair Trial in International Law with Specific Reference to

the Work of the ICTYrdquo (2009) 3 Berk J Intl L Publicist 1 at 5 See also Yvonne McDermott

ldquoThe Right to a Fair Trial in International Criminal Lawrdquo (PhD thesis National University of

Ireland Galway July 2013) at 17 and in a related context see ldquoCustomary International

Humanitarian Law Databaserdquo International Committee of the Red Cross lthttpsihl-

databasesicrcorgcustomary-ihlengdocsv1_rul_rule100gt at Rule 100

14

52

- Case Study

( H R g ( HRrdquo))

rdquo

rdquo

53

HR ၆

rdquo

rdquo 54

rdquo

rdquo

၆ 55

၁၉ HR

52 International Commission of Jurists ldquoTrial Observation Manual for Criminal Proceedingsrdquo

(22 July 2009) lthttpswwwicjorgcriminal-trials-and-human-rights-a-manual-on-trial-

observationgt at 84 53 UK Human Rights Act 1998 Schedule I Article 6(1) (emphasis added) 54 Philis v Greece Application No 1275087 1378088 1400388 (27 August 1991) at sect59 55 Ashingdane v the United Kingdom No 822578) (28 May 1985) at sect57

15

HR

( )

-၁

( )

-

၁ -

( )

56

57

56 57

16

( )

(

) (

)

58

( )

58

17

59

Justice Base

Justice

Base

၆ ( ၁

) ၆

၁၁၉ 60

-

59

( )

60

18

61

62

rdquo

61 62

19

( )

rdquo

rdquo

rdquo rdquo

rdquo

rdquo rdquo

rdquo

rdquo

-

rdquo rdquo

( )

20

- -

63 (

)

-

-

63 ၁

Antoni Slodkowski and Soe Zeya Tun ldquoMyanmar

opposition candidate attacked with machetesrdquo (29 October 2015) Reuters

httpwwwreuterscomarticleus-myanmar-election-violence-idUSKCN0SN2GU2015102

21

( )

Diagram 2 A typical courtroom

(

)

Judge

Table

Clerk

Witness

Clerk

Lawyer

Lawyer Complainant

Defendant

Lawyer

22

-

-

64

( )

64 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at [28]

23

( )

65

-

rdquo

rdquo

rdquo 65

24

rdquo

rdquo

( )

(

( ) )

(

)

( )

25

66

(

) 67

68

66 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at para 29 (ldquo rdquo)

67 68 Christina Fink Living Silence in Burma (2nd ed Zed Books London 2009) at 134 as cited in

Fortify Rights ldquoMidnight Intrusion Ending Guest Registration and Household Inspections in

Myanmarrdquo (March 2015) Fortify Rights ltwwwfortifyrightsorggt at 12

26

၁၁

N k 69

-

-

( )

rdquo70

71

(

)

69 Cheesman above n 2 at 101 70 Cheesman n 2 at 117 71 See Part II subpart B above

27

Justice Base

customer

service trainings

Justice Base

( -၁)

၁၉( ) ၁

( )

28

( (၁) )

( - ) (၁)

( )

( - )

( - )

(

)

29

( - )

( )

( -၁)

( - )

( - )

30

31

( )

-

-

-

32

-

-

---------------------------- _________________________

33

( )

- 72 ၁

( )

( )

___________________________________________________________

( )

__________________________________________________ ( )

Yes No ( ______________________________________)

Yes No ___________________________________________________________

Yes No ( ________________________________________)

72

34

၁၁

____________________________________________________ Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No _________________ - Yes No - Yes No - ________________ Yes No ________________ - Yes No

( ______________________________________) ______ _______________________________ Yes No ___________________________________________________ Yes No __________________________________________________

( )

35

Yes No Yes No Yes No

Yes No - - Yes No - Yes No ___________________________ - Yes No -- Yes No - Yes No ( _____________)

၁၆ ( )

Yes No

Yes No

36

၁၉

( )

( )

Yes No Yes No

Yes No ____________

( )

Yes No Yes No

( )

37

- 73 ၁ gt gt၁ gt gt၁ gt +

[____ ____ ] ၆

[ ________________________________)

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

73

38

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

၉ cause list

Yes No

39

Yes No Yes No [ ____________________________________________)

၁၁

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

40

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No ___________________________________________

41

__________________________________________

Yes No [ ____________________________________________]

Yes No Yes No _____________________________________________________]

၁၆

Yes No [ ________________________________________________] Yes No [ ___________________________________________] Yes No

42

[ _________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________]

Yes No [ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________]

Yes No ____________________________________ ________________________________________________________

၁၉

Yes No ( ) _______________________________________________ [ ] Yes No [ ___________________________________________]

Yes No -

43

] - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------___________________________]

Yes No ______________________________________________ _________________________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________ ____________________________________________________----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Yes No _________________________________

44

( ) ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ Yes No

________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________

( )

Yes No __________________________________________________ Yes No -

Yes No _________________________________________________ ___________________

45

_________________________________________

Yes No ___________________________ ______________________

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No

46

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

47

Framing of the charges

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Final Argument

Yes No Yes No

ဍ Yes No

48

Yes No

Yes No Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Comments

49

- 1 2

3

4 5 a b c 6

7

8

[_______________________________]

9

10

Yes No

11

[ ________________________________)

12

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___]

50

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

13

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

14

[ _______________________________________]

1 cause list Yes

51

5

No

16

Yes No Yes No __________________________________________]

17

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

19

Yes No

20

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8

၁ ၉ -

(၁)

rdquo

( )

rdquo

၁၉( )

9

(

)

32

33

34

၁၉၉ ( )

၁၆ ၁၆

Burma Official

Secrets Act 1923 ၁

35

32 See Human Rights Committee n 27 at para 29 UN Commission on Human Rights rdquoThe

Siracusa Principles on the Limitation and Derogation Provisions in the International Covenant

on Civil and Political Rightsrdquo ECN419854 (28 September 1984) para 38(a) 33 Stefan Trechsel ldquoThe Significance of International Human Rights for Criminal Procedurerdquo

(2011) 6 Nat‟l Taiwan Univ Law Rev 1 at 191 (witness reprisal) Mole Nuala and Harby

ldquoThe Right to a Fair Trial A guide to the implementation of Article 6 of the European

Convention on Human Rightsrdquo (2006) at 22 34 UN Commission on Human Rights rdquoThe Siracusa Principles on the Limitation and

Derogation Provisions in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rightsrdquo above n

35 para 38(a) 35 ၁

10

36

37

Justice Base

Justice Base

38

36 ( ) 37

( ၁ ) wwwunionsupremecourtgovmm rdquo ( ) - ၁

38 Human Rights

Committee n 27 at para 29 (ldquo rdquo)

11

၁ - ၁

rdquo

rdquo 39

-

( UDHRrdquo)

40

(International Covenant on Civil and

P R g ( PR))

41

39 Eleven ldquoJudicial process must be independent and transparent says Chief justicerdquo ( ၉ ၁ ) httpwwwelevenmyanmarcomlocaljudicial-process-must-be-independent-and-

transparent-says-chief-justice 40 Universal Declaration of Human Rights GA Res 217A (III) (10 December 1948) art 10 41 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 999 UNTS 171 (opened for signature 16

December 1966 entered into force 23 March 1976) art 14

12

42

(H R g ) PR

rdquo

( )

43

44

PR

42 UN Commission on Human Rights rdquoThe Siracusa Principles on the Limitation and

Derogation Provisions in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rightsrdquo above n

35 para 38(a) 43 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at paras 3 16 and 28 44 At para 29

13

45

UDHR PR UDHR

46 UDHR 47

PR 48

49 UDHR

(UDHR

) UDHR

50

UDHR

ICCPR

51

45 At para 28 46 See ldquoYearbook of the United Nations 1948ndash1949rdquo The Yearbook of the United Nations

ltunyearbookunorggt at 535 47 Malcolm N Shaw International Law (7th ed Cambridge University Press Cambridge 2014)

at 279 48 Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review Myanmar AHRC3113 (23

December 015) at [1434] reaffirming the commitment expressed during the previous

Universal Periodic Review Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review

Myanmar AHRC179 (24 March 2011) at [1046] ( ) see AHRC3113 (23 December 2015) at [14348]

49 See United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner ldquoStatus of Ratificationrdquo

lthttpindicatorsohchrorggt 50 ldquo rdquo Restat 3d of the Foreign Relations Law of the US (1987) at sect

102(2) and (3) 51 Patrick Robinson ldquoThe Right to a Fair Trial in International Law with Specific Reference to

the Work of the ICTYrdquo (2009) 3 Berk J Intl L Publicist 1 at 5 See also Yvonne McDermott

ldquoThe Right to a Fair Trial in International Criminal Lawrdquo (PhD thesis National University of

Ireland Galway July 2013) at 17 and in a related context see ldquoCustomary International

Humanitarian Law Databaserdquo International Committee of the Red Cross lthttpsihl-

databasesicrcorgcustomary-ihlengdocsv1_rul_rule100gt at Rule 100

14

52

- Case Study

( H R g ( HRrdquo))

rdquo

rdquo

53

HR ၆

rdquo

rdquo 54

rdquo

rdquo

၆ 55

၁၉ HR

52 International Commission of Jurists ldquoTrial Observation Manual for Criminal Proceedingsrdquo

(22 July 2009) lthttpswwwicjorgcriminal-trials-and-human-rights-a-manual-on-trial-

observationgt at 84 53 UK Human Rights Act 1998 Schedule I Article 6(1) (emphasis added) 54 Philis v Greece Application No 1275087 1378088 1400388 (27 August 1991) at sect59 55 Ashingdane v the United Kingdom No 822578) (28 May 1985) at sect57

15

HR

( )

-၁

( )

-

၁ -

( )

56

57

56 57

16

( )

(

) (

)

58

( )

58

17

59

Justice Base

Justice

Base

၆ ( ၁

) ၆

၁၁၉ 60

-

59

( )

60

18

61

62

rdquo

61 62

19

( )

rdquo

rdquo

rdquo rdquo

rdquo

rdquo rdquo

rdquo

rdquo

-

rdquo rdquo

( )

20

- -

63 (

)

-

-

63 ၁

Antoni Slodkowski and Soe Zeya Tun ldquoMyanmar

opposition candidate attacked with machetesrdquo (29 October 2015) Reuters

httpwwwreuterscomarticleus-myanmar-election-violence-idUSKCN0SN2GU2015102

21

( )

Diagram 2 A typical courtroom

(

)

Judge

Table

Clerk

Witness

Clerk

Lawyer

Lawyer Complainant

Defendant

Lawyer

22

-

-

64

( )

64 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at [28]

23

( )

65

-

rdquo

rdquo

rdquo 65

24

rdquo

rdquo

( )

(

( ) )

(

)

( )

25

66

(

) 67

68

66 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at para 29 (ldquo rdquo)

67 68 Christina Fink Living Silence in Burma (2nd ed Zed Books London 2009) at 134 as cited in

Fortify Rights ldquoMidnight Intrusion Ending Guest Registration and Household Inspections in

Myanmarrdquo (March 2015) Fortify Rights ltwwwfortifyrightsorggt at 12

26

၁၁

N k 69

-

-

( )

rdquo70

71

(

)

69 Cheesman above n 2 at 101 70 Cheesman n 2 at 117 71 See Part II subpart B above

27

Justice Base

customer

service trainings

Justice Base

( -၁)

၁၉( ) ၁

( )

28

( (၁) )

( - ) (၁)

( )

( - )

( - )

(

)

29

( - )

( )

( -၁)

( - )

( - )

30

31

( )

-

-

-

32

-

-

---------------------------- _________________________

33

( )

- 72 ၁

( )

( )

___________________________________________________________

( )

__________________________________________________ ( )

Yes No ( ______________________________________)

Yes No ___________________________________________________________

Yes No ( ________________________________________)

72

34

၁၁

____________________________________________________ Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No _________________ - Yes No - Yes No - ________________ Yes No ________________ - Yes No

( ______________________________________) ______ _______________________________ Yes No ___________________________________________________ Yes No __________________________________________________

( )

35

Yes No Yes No Yes No

Yes No - - Yes No - Yes No ___________________________ - Yes No -- Yes No - Yes No ( _____________)

၁၆ ( )

Yes No

Yes No

36

၁၉

( )

( )

Yes No Yes No

Yes No ____________

( )

Yes No Yes No

( )

37

- 73 ၁ gt gt၁ gt gt၁ gt +

[____ ____ ] ၆

[ ________________________________)

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

73

38

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

၉ cause list

Yes No

39

Yes No Yes No [ ____________________________________________)

၁၁

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

40

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No ___________________________________________

41

__________________________________________

Yes No [ ____________________________________________]

Yes No Yes No _____________________________________________________]

၁၆

Yes No [ ________________________________________________] Yes No [ ___________________________________________] Yes No

42

[ _________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________]

Yes No [ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________]

Yes No ____________________________________ ________________________________________________________

၁၉

Yes No ( ) _______________________________________________ [ ] Yes No [ ___________________________________________]

Yes No -

43

] - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------___________________________]

Yes No ______________________________________________ _________________________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________ ____________________________________________________----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Yes No _________________________________

44

( ) ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ Yes No

________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________

( )

Yes No __________________________________________________ Yes No -

Yes No _________________________________________________ ___________________

45

_________________________________________

Yes No ___________________________ ______________________

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No

46

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

47

Framing of the charges

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Final Argument

Yes No Yes No

ဍ Yes No

48

Yes No

Yes No Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Comments

49

- 1 2

3

4 5 a b c 6

7

8

[_______________________________]

9

10

Yes No

11

[ ________________________________)

12

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___]

50

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

13

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

14

[ _______________________________________]

1 cause list Yes

51

5

No

16

Yes No Yes No __________________________________________]

17

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

19

Yes No

20

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9

(

)

32

33

34

၁၉၉ ( )

၁၆ ၁၆

Burma Official

Secrets Act 1923 ၁

35

32 See Human Rights Committee n 27 at para 29 UN Commission on Human Rights rdquoThe

Siracusa Principles on the Limitation and Derogation Provisions in the International Covenant

on Civil and Political Rightsrdquo ECN419854 (28 September 1984) para 38(a) 33 Stefan Trechsel ldquoThe Significance of International Human Rights for Criminal Procedurerdquo

(2011) 6 Nat‟l Taiwan Univ Law Rev 1 at 191 (witness reprisal) Mole Nuala and Harby

ldquoThe Right to a Fair Trial A guide to the implementation of Article 6 of the European

Convention on Human Rightsrdquo (2006) at 22 34 UN Commission on Human Rights rdquoThe Siracusa Principles on the Limitation and

Derogation Provisions in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rightsrdquo above n

35 para 38(a) 35 ၁

10

36

37

Justice Base

Justice Base

38

36 ( ) 37

( ၁ ) wwwunionsupremecourtgovmm rdquo ( ) - ၁

38 Human Rights

Committee n 27 at para 29 (ldquo rdquo)

11

၁ - ၁

rdquo

rdquo 39

-

( UDHRrdquo)

40

(International Covenant on Civil and

P R g ( PR))

41

39 Eleven ldquoJudicial process must be independent and transparent says Chief justicerdquo ( ၉ ၁ ) httpwwwelevenmyanmarcomlocaljudicial-process-must-be-independent-and-

transparent-says-chief-justice 40 Universal Declaration of Human Rights GA Res 217A (III) (10 December 1948) art 10 41 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 999 UNTS 171 (opened for signature 16

December 1966 entered into force 23 March 1976) art 14

12

42

(H R g ) PR

rdquo

( )

43

44

PR

42 UN Commission on Human Rights rdquoThe Siracusa Principles on the Limitation and

Derogation Provisions in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rightsrdquo above n

35 para 38(a) 43 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at paras 3 16 and 28 44 At para 29

13

45

UDHR PR UDHR

46 UDHR 47

PR 48

49 UDHR

(UDHR

) UDHR

50

UDHR

ICCPR

51

45 At para 28 46 See ldquoYearbook of the United Nations 1948ndash1949rdquo The Yearbook of the United Nations

ltunyearbookunorggt at 535 47 Malcolm N Shaw International Law (7th ed Cambridge University Press Cambridge 2014)

at 279 48 Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review Myanmar AHRC3113 (23

December 015) at [1434] reaffirming the commitment expressed during the previous

Universal Periodic Review Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review

Myanmar AHRC179 (24 March 2011) at [1046] ( ) see AHRC3113 (23 December 2015) at [14348]

49 See United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner ldquoStatus of Ratificationrdquo

lthttpindicatorsohchrorggt 50 ldquo rdquo Restat 3d of the Foreign Relations Law of the US (1987) at sect

102(2) and (3) 51 Patrick Robinson ldquoThe Right to a Fair Trial in International Law with Specific Reference to

the Work of the ICTYrdquo (2009) 3 Berk J Intl L Publicist 1 at 5 See also Yvonne McDermott

ldquoThe Right to a Fair Trial in International Criminal Lawrdquo (PhD thesis National University of

Ireland Galway July 2013) at 17 and in a related context see ldquoCustomary International

Humanitarian Law Databaserdquo International Committee of the Red Cross lthttpsihl-

databasesicrcorgcustomary-ihlengdocsv1_rul_rule100gt at Rule 100

14

52

- Case Study

( H R g ( HRrdquo))

rdquo

rdquo

53

HR ၆

rdquo

rdquo 54

rdquo

rdquo

၆ 55

၁၉ HR

52 International Commission of Jurists ldquoTrial Observation Manual for Criminal Proceedingsrdquo

(22 July 2009) lthttpswwwicjorgcriminal-trials-and-human-rights-a-manual-on-trial-

observationgt at 84 53 UK Human Rights Act 1998 Schedule I Article 6(1) (emphasis added) 54 Philis v Greece Application No 1275087 1378088 1400388 (27 August 1991) at sect59 55 Ashingdane v the United Kingdom No 822578) (28 May 1985) at sect57

15

HR

( )

-၁

( )

-

၁ -

( )

56

57

56 57

16

( )

(

) (

)

58

( )

58

17

59

Justice Base

Justice

Base

၆ ( ၁

) ၆

၁၁၉ 60

-

59

( )

60

18

61

62

rdquo

61 62

19

( )

rdquo

rdquo

rdquo rdquo

rdquo

rdquo rdquo

rdquo

rdquo

-

rdquo rdquo

( )

20

- -

63 (

)

-

-

63 ၁

Antoni Slodkowski and Soe Zeya Tun ldquoMyanmar

opposition candidate attacked with machetesrdquo (29 October 2015) Reuters

httpwwwreuterscomarticleus-myanmar-election-violence-idUSKCN0SN2GU2015102

21

( )

Diagram 2 A typical courtroom

(

)

Judge

Table

Clerk

Witness

Clerk

Lawyer

Lawyer Complainant

Defendant

Lawyer

22

-

-

64

( )

64 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at [28]

23

( )

65

-

rdquo

rdquo

rdquo 65

24

rdquo

rdquo

( )

(

( ) )

(

)

( )

25

66

(

) 67

68

66 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at para 29 (ldquo rdquo)

67 68 Christina Fink Living Silence in Burma (2nd ed Zed Books London 2009) at 134 as cited in

Fortify Rights ldquoMidnight Intrusion Ending Guest Registration and Household Inspections in

Myanmarrdquo (March 2015) Fortify Rights ltwwwfortifyrightsorggt at 12

26

၁၁

N k 69

-

-

( )

rdquo70

71

(

)

69 Cheesman above n 2 at 101 70 Cheesman n 2 at 117 71 See Part II subpart B above

27

Justice Base

customer

service trainings

Justice Base

( -၁)

၁၉( ) ၁

( )

28

( (၁) )

( - ) (၁)

( )

( - )

( - )

(

)

29

( - )

( )

( -၁)

( - )

( - )

30

31

( )

-

-

-

32

-

-

---------------------------- _________________________

33

( )

- 72 ၁

( )

( )

___________________________________________________________

( )

__________________________________________________ ( )

Yes No ( ______________________________________)

Yes No ___________________________________________________________

Yes No ( ________________________________________)

72

34

၁၁

____________________________________________________ Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No _________________ - Yes No - Yes No - ________________ Yes No ________________ - Yes No

( ______________________________________) ______ _______________________________ Yes No ___________________________________________________ Yes No __________________________________________________

( )

35

Yes No Yes No Yes No

Yes No - - Yes No - Yes No ___________________________ - Yes No -- Yes No - Yes No ( _____________)

၁၆ ( )

Yes No

Yes No

36

၁၉

( )

( )

Yes No Yes No

Yes No ____________

( )

Yes No Yes No

( )

37

- 73 ၁ gt gt၁ gt gt၁ gt +

[____ ____ ] ၆

[ ________________________________)

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

73

38

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

၉ cause list

Yes No

39

Yes No Yes No [ ____________________________________________)

၁၁

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

40

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No ___________________________________________

41

__________________________________________

Yes No [ ____________________________________________]

Yes No Yes No _____________________________________________________]

၁၆

Yes No [ ________________________________________________] Yes No [ ___________________________________________] Yes No

42

[ _________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________]

Yes No [ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________]

Yes No ____________________________________ ________________________________________________________

၁၉

Yes No ( ) _______________________________________________ [ ] Yes No [ ___________________________________________]

Yes No -

43

] - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------___________________________]

Yes No ______________________________________________ _________________________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________ ____________________________________________________----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Yes No _________________________________

44

( ) ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ Yes No

________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________

( )

Yes No __________________________________________________ Yes No -

Yes No _________________________________________________ ___________________

45

_________________________________________

Yes No ___________________________ ______________________

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No

46

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

47

Framing of the charges

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Final Argument

Yes No Yes No

ဍ Yes No

48

Yes No

Yes No Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Comments

49

- 1 2

3

4 5 a b c 6

7

8

[_______________________________]

9

10

Yes No

11

[ ________________________________)

12

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___]

50

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

13

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

14

[ _______________________________________]

1 cause list Yes

51

5

No

16

Yes No Yes No __________________________________________]

17

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

19

Yes No

20

Page 20: JUSTICE BASE - Progressive Voice...Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal 5 (2000), at pg. 25. 14 Nick Cheesman “Thin Rule of Law or Un-Rule of Law in Myanmar?”(2010) 82(4) Pacific

10

36

37

Justice Base

Justice Base

38

36 ( ) 37

( ၁ ) wwwunionsupremecourtgovmm rdquo ( ) - ၁

38 Human Rights

Committee n 27 at para 29 (ldquo rdquo)

11

၁ - ၁

rdquo

rdquo 39

-

( UDHRrdquo)

40

(International Covenant on Civil and

P R g ( PR))

41

39 Eleven ldquoJudicial process must be independent and transparent says Chief justicerdquo ( ၉ ၁ ) httpwwwelevenmyanmarcomlocaljudicial-process-must-be-independent-and-

transparent-says-chief-justice 40 Universal Declaration of Human Rights GA Res 217A (III) (10 December 1948) art 10 41 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 999 UNTS 171 (opened for signature 16

December 1966 entered into force 23 March 1976) art 14

12

42

(H R g ) PR

rdquo

( )

43

44

PR

42 UN Commission on Human Rights rdquoThe Siracusa Principles on the Limitation and

Derogation Provisions in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rightsrdquo above n

35 para 38(a) 43 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at paras 3 16 and 28 44 At para 29

13

45

UDHR PR UDHR

46 UDHR 47

PR 48

49 UDHR

(UDHR

) UDHR

50

UDHR

ICCPR

51

45 At para 28 46 See ldquoYearbook of the United Nations 1948ndash1949rdquo The Yearbook of the United Nations

ltunyearbookunorggt at 535 47 Malcolm N Shaw International Law (7th ed Cambridge University Press Cambridge 2014)

at 279 48 Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review Myanmar AHRC3113 (23

December 015) at [1434] reaffirming the commitment expressed during the previous

Universal Periodic Review Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review

Myanmar AHRC179 (24 March 2011) at [1046] ( ) see AHRC3113 (23 December 2015) at [14348]

49 See United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner ldquoStatus of Ratificationrdquo

lthttpindicatorsohchrorggt 50 ldquo rdquo Restat 3d of the Foreign Relations Law of the US (1987) at sect

102(2) and (3) 51 Patrick Robinson ldquoThe Right to a Fair Trial in International Law with Specific Reference to

the Work of the ICTYrdquo (2009) 3 Berk J Intl L Publicist 1 at 5 See also Yvonne McDermott

ldquoThe Right to a Fair Trial in International Criminal Lawrdquo (PhD thesis National University of

Ireland Galway July 2013) at 17 and in a related context see ldquoCustomary International

Humanitarian Law Databaserdquo International Committee of the Red Cross lthttpsihl-

databasesicrcorgcustomary-ihlengdocsv1_rul_rule100gt at Rule 100

14

52

- Case Study

( H R g ( HRrdquo))

rdquo

rdquo

53

HR ၆

rdquo

rdquo 54

rdquo

rdquo

၆ 55

၁၉ HR

52 International Commission of Jurists ldquoTrial Observation Manual for Criminal Proceedingsrdquo

(22 July 2009) lthttpswwwicjorgcriminal-trials-and-human-rights-a-manual-on-trial-

observationgt at 84 53 UK Human Rights Act 1998 Schedule I Article 6(1) (emphasis added) 54 Philis v Greece Application No 1275087 1378088 1400388 (27 August 1991) at sect59 55 Ashingdane v the United Kingdom No 822578) (28 May 1985) at sect57

15

HR

( )

-၁

( )

-

၁ -

( )

56

57

56 57

16

( )

(

) (

)

58

( )

58

17

59

Justice Base

Justice

Base

၆ ( ၁

) ၆

၁၁၉ 60

-

59

( )

60

18

61

62

rdquo

61 62

19

( )

rdquo

rdquo

rdquo rdquo

rdquo

rdquo rdquo

rdquo

rdquo

-

rdquo rdquo

( )

20

- -

63 (

)

-

-

63 ၁

Antoni Slodkowski and Soe Zeya Tun ldquoMyanmar

opposition candidate attacked with machetesrdquo (29 October 2015) Reuters

httpwwwreuterscomarticleus-myanmar-election-violence-idUSKCN0SN2GU2015102

21

( )

Diagram 2 A typical courtroom

(

)

Judge

Table

Clerk

Witness

Clerk

Lawyer

Lawyer Complainant

Defendant

Lawyer

22

-

-

64

( )

64 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at [28]

23

( )

65

-

rdquo

rdquo

rdquo 65

24

rdquo

rdquo

( )

(

( ) )

(

)

( )

25

66

(

) 67

68

66 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at para 29 (ldquo rdquo)

67 68 Christina Fink Living Silence in Burma (2nd ed Zed Books London 2009) at 134 as cited in

Fortify Rights ldquoMidnight Intrusion Ending Guest Registration and Household Inspections in

Myanmarrdquo (March 2015) Fortify Rights ltwwwfortifyrightsorggt at 12

26

၁၁

N k 69

-

-

( )

rdquo70

71

(

)

69 Cheesman above n 2 at 101 70 Cheesman n 2 at 117 71 See Part II subpart B above

27

Justice Base

customer

service trainings

Justice Base

( -၁)

၁၉( ) ၁

( )

28

( (၁) )

( - ) (၁)

( )

( - )

( - )

(

)

29

( - )

( )

( -၁)

( - )

( - )

30

31

( )

-

-

-

32

-

-

---------------------------- _________________________

33

( )

- 72 ၁

( )

( )

___________________________________________________________

( )

__________________________________________________ ( )

Yes No ( ______________________________________)

Yes No ___________________________________________________________

Yes No ( ________________________________________)

72

34

၁၁

____________________________________________________ Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No _________________ - Yes No - Yes No - ________________ Yes No ________________ - Yes No

( ______________________________________) ______ _______________________________ Yes No ___________________________________________________ Yes No __________________________________________________

( )

35

Yes No Yes No Yes No

Yes No - - Yes No - Yes No ___________________________ - Yes No -- Yes No - Yes No ( _____________)

၁၆ ( )

Yes No

Yes No

36

၁၉

( )

( )

Yes No Yes No

Yes No ____________

( )

Yes No Yes No

( )

37

- 73 ၁ gt gt၁ gt gt၁ gt +

[____ ____ ] ၆

[ ________________________________)

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

73

38

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

၉ cause list

Yes No

39

Yes No Yes No [ ____________________________________________)

၁၁

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

40

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No ___________________________________________

41

__________________________________________

Yes No [ ____________________________________________]

Yes No Yes No _____________________________________________________]

၁၆

Yes No [ ________________________________________________] Yes No [ ___________________________________________] Yes No

42

[ _________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________]

Yes No [ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________]

Yes No ____________________________________ ________________________________________________________

၁၉

Yes No ( ) _______________________________________________ [ ] Yes No [ ___________________________________________]

Yes No -

43

] - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------___________________________]

Yes No ______________________________________________ _________________________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________ ____________________________________________________----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Yes No _________________________________

44

( ) ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ Yes No

________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________

( )

Yes No __________________________________________________ Yes No -

Yes No _________________________________________________ ___________________

45

_________________________________________

Yes No ___________________________ ______________________

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No

46

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

47

Framing of the charges

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Final Argument

Yes No Yes No

ဍ Yes No

48

Yes No

Yes No Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Comments

49

- 1 2

3

4 5 a b c 6

7

8

[_______________________________]

9

10

Yes No

11

[ ________________________________)

12

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___]

50

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

13

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

14

[ _______________________________________]

1 cause list Yes

51

5

No

16

Yes No Yes No __________________________________________]

17

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

19

Yes No

20

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11

၁ - ၁

rdquo

rdquo 39

-

( UDHRrdquo)

40

(International Covenant on Civil and

P R g ( PR))

41

39 Eleven ldquoJudicial process must be independent and transparent says Chief justicerdquo ( ၉ ၁ ) httpwwwelevenmyanmarcomlocaljudicial-process-must-be-independent-and-

transparent-says-chief-justice 40 Universal Declaration of Human Rights GA Res 217A (III) (10 December 1948) art 10 41 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 999 UNTS 171 (opened for signature 16

December 1966 entered into force 23 March 1976) art 14

12

42

(H R g ) PR

rdquo

( )

43

44

PR

42 UN Commission on Human Rights rdquoThe Siracusa Principles on the Limitation and

Derogation Provisions in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rightsrdquo above n

35 para 38(a) 43 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at paras 3 16 and 28 44 At para 29

13

45

UDHR PR UDHR

46 UDHR 47

PR 48

49 UDHR

(UDHR

) UDHR

50

UDHR

ICCPR

51

45 At para 28 46 See ldquoYearbook of the United Nations 1948ndash1949rdquo The Yearbook of the United Nations

ltunyearbookunorggt at 535 47 Malcolm N Shaw International Law (7th ed Cambridge University Press Cambridge 2014)

at 279 48 Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review Myanmar AHRC3113 (23

December 015) at [1434] reaffirming the commitment expressed during the previous

Universal Periodic Review Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review

Myanmar AHRC179 (24 March 2011) at [1046] ( ) see AHRC3113 (23 December 2015) at [14348]

49 See United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner ldquoStatus of Ratificationrdquo

lthttpindicatorsohchrorggt 50 ldquo rdquo Restat 3d of the Foreign Relations Law of the US (1987) at sect

102(2) and (3) 51 Patrick Robinson ldquoThe Right to a Fair Trial in International Law with Specific Reference to

the Work of the ICTYrdquo (2009) 3 Berk J Intl L Publicist 1 at 5 See also Yvonne McDermott

ldquoThe Right to a Fair Trial in International Criminal Lawrdquo (PhD thesis National University of

Ireland Galway July 2013) at 17 and in a related context see ldquoCustomary International

Humanitarian Law Databaserdquo International Committee of the Red Cross lthttpsihl-

databasesicrcorgcustomary-ihlengdocsv1_rul_rule100gt at Rule 100

14

52

- Case Study

( H R g ( HRrdquo))

rdquo

rdquo

53

HR ၆

rdquo

rdquo 54

rdquo

rdquo

၆ 55

၁၉ HR

52 International Commission of Jurists ldquoTrial Observation Manual for Criminal Proceedingsrdquo

(22 July 2009) lthttpswwwicjorgcriminal-trials-and-human-rights-a-manual-on-trial-

observationgt at 84 53 UK Human Rights Act 1998 Schedule I Article 6(1) (emphasis added) 54 Philis v Greece Application No 1275087 1378088 1400388 (27 August 1991) at sect59 55 Ashingdane v the United Kingdom No 822578) (28 May 1985) at sect57

15

HR

( )

-၁

( )

-

၁ -

( )

56

57

56 57

16

( )

(

) (

)

58

( )

58

17

59

Justice Base

Justice

Base

၆ ( ၁

) ၆

၁၁၉ 60

-

59

( )

60

18

61

62

rdquo

61 62

19

( )

rdquo

rdquo

rdquo rdquo

rdquo

rdquo rdquo

rdquo

rdquo

-

rdquo rdquo

( )

20

- -

63 (

)

-

-

63 ၁

Antoni Slodkowski and Soe Zeya Tun ldquoMyanmar

opposition candidate attacked with machetesrdquo (29 October 2015) Reuters

httpwwwreuterscomarticleus-myanmar-election-violence-idUSKCN0SN2GU2015102

21

( )

Diagram 2 A typical courtroom

(

)

Judge

Table

Clerk

Witness

Clerk

Lawyer

Lawyer Complainant

Defendant

Lawyer

22

-

-

64

( )

64 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at [28]

23

( )

65

-

rdquo

rdquo

rdquo 65

24

rdquo

rdquo

( )

(

( ) )

(

)

( )

25

66

(

) 67

68

66 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at para 29 (ldquo rdquo)

67 68 Christina Fink Living Silence in Burma (2nd ed Zed Books London 2009) at 134 as cited in

Fortify Rights ldquoMidnight Intrusion Ending Guest Registration and Household Inspections in

Myanmarrdquo (March 2015) Fortify Rights ltwwwfortifyrightsorggt at 12

26

၁၁

N k 69

-

-

( )

rdquo70

71

(

)

69 Cheesman above n 2 at 101 70 Cheesman n 2 at 117 71 See Part II subpart B above

27

Justice Base

customer

service trainings

Justice Base

( -၁)

၁၉( ) ၁

( )

28

( (၁) )

( - ) (၁)

( )

( - )

( - )

(

)

29

( - )

( )

( -၁)

( - )

( - )

30

31

( )

-

-

-

32

-

-

---------------------------- _________________________

33

( )

- 72 ၁

( )

( )

___________________________________________________________

( )

__________________________________________________ ( )

Yes No ( ______________________________________)

Yes No ___________________________________________________________

Yes No ( ________________________________________)

72

34

၁၁

____________________________________________________ Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No _________________ - Yes No - Yes No - ________________ Yes No ________________ - Yes No

( ______________________________________) ______ _______________________________ Yes No ___________________________________________________ Yes No __________________________________________________

( )

35

Yes No Yes No Yes No

Yes No - - Yes No - Yes No ___________________________ - Yes No -- Yes No - Yes No ( _____________)

၁၆ ( )

Yes No

Yes No

36

၁၉

( )

( )

Yes No Yes No

Yes No ____________

( )

Yes No Yes No

( )

37

- 73 ၁ gt gt၁ gt gt၁ gt +

[____ ____ ] ၆

[ ________________________________)

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

73

38

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

၉ cause list

Yes No

39

Yes No Yes No [ ____________________________________________)

၁၁

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

40

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No ___________________________________________

41

__________________________________________

Yes No [ ____________________________________________]

Yes No Yes No _____________________________________________________]

၁၆

Yes No [ ________________________________________________] Yes No [ ___________________________________________] Yes No

42

[ _________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________]

Yes No [ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________]

Yes No ____________________________________ ________________________________________________________

၁၉

Yes No ( ) _______________________________________________ [ ] Yes No [ ___________________________________________]

Yes No -

43

] - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------___________________________]

Yes No ______________________________________________ _________________________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________ ____________________________________________________----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Yes No _________________________________

44

( ) ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ Yes No

________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________

( )

Yes No __________________________________________________ Yes No -

Yes No _________________________________________________ ___________________

45

_________________________________________

Yes No ___________________________ ______________________

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No

46

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

47

Framing of the charges

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Final Argument

Yes No Yes No

ဍ Yes No

48

Yes No

Yes No Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Comments

49

- 1 2

3

4 5 a b c 6

7

8

[_______________________________]

9

10

Yes No

11

[ ________________________________)

12

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___]

50

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

13

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

14

[ _______________________________________]

1 cause list Yes

51

5

No

16

Yes No Yes No __________________________________________]

17

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

19

Yes No

20

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12

42

(H R g ) PR

rdquo

( )

43

44

PR

42 UN Commission on Human Rights rdquoThe Siracusa Principles on the Limitation and

Derogation Provisions in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rightsrdquo above n

35 para 38(a) 43 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at paras 3 16 and 28 44 At para 29

13

45

UDHR PR UDHR

46 UDHR 47

PR 48

49 UDHR

(UDHR

) UDHR

50

UDHR

ICCPR

51

45 At para 28 46 See ldquoYearbook of the United Nations 1948ndash1949rdquo The Yearbook of the United Nations

ltunyearbookunorggt at 535 47 Malcolm N Shaw International Law (7th ed Cambridge University Press Cambridge 2014)

at 279 48 Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review Myanmar AHRC3113 (23

December 015) at [1434] reaffirming the commitment expressed during the previous

Universal Periodic Review Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review

Myanmar AHRC179 (24 March 2011) at [1046] ( ) see AHRC3113 (23 December 2015) at [14348]

49 See United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner ldquoStatus of Ratificationrdquo

lthttpindicatorsohchrorggt 50 ldquo rdquo Restat 3d of the Foreign Relations Law of the US (1987) at sect

102(2) and (3) 51 Patrick Robinson ldquoThe Right to a Fair Trial in International Law with Specific Reference to

the Work of the ICTYrdquo (2009) 3 Berk J Intl L Publicist 1 at 5 See also Yvonne McDermott

ldquoThe Right to a Fair Trial in International Criminal Lawrdquo (PhD thesis National University of

Ireland Galway July 2013) at 17 and in a related context see ldquoCustomary International

Humanitarian Law Databaserdquo International Committee of the Red Cross lthttpsihl-

databasesicrcorgcustomary-ihlengdocsv1_rul_rule100gt at Rule 100

14

52

- Case Study

( H R g ( HRrdquo))

rdquo

rdquo

53

HR ၆

rdquo

rdquo 54

rdquo

rdquo

၆ 55

၁၉ HR

52 International Commission of Jurists ldquoTrial Observation Manual for Criminal Proceedingsrdquo

(22 July 2009) lthttpswwwicjorgcriminal-trials-and-human-rights-a-manual-on-trial-

observationgt at 84 53 UK Human Rights Act 1998 Schedule I Article 6(1) (emphasis added) 54 Philis v Greece Application No 1275087 1378088 1400388 (27 August 1991) at sect59 55 Ashingdane v the United Kingdom No 822578) (28 May 1985) at sect57

15

HR

( )

-၁

( )

-

၁ -

( )

56

57

56 57

16

( )

(

) (

)

58

( )

58

17

59

Justice Base

Justice

Base

၆ ( ၁

) ၆

၁၁၉ 60

-

59

( )

60

18

61

62

rdquo

61 62

19

( )

rdquo

rdquo

rdquo rdquo

rdquo

rdquo rdquo

rdquo

rdquo

-

rdquo rdquo

( )

20

- -

63 (

)

-

-

63 ၁

Antoni Slodkowski and Soe Zeya Tun ldquoMyanmar

opposition candidate attacked with machetesrdquo (29 October 2015) Reuters

httpwwwreuterscomarticleus-myanmar-election-violence-idUSKCN0SN2GU2015102

21

( )

Diagram 2 A typical courtroom

(

)

Judge

Table

Clerk

Witness

Clerk

Lawyer

Lawyer Complainant

Defendant

Lawyer

22

-

-

64

( )

64 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at [28]

23

( )

65

-

rdquo

rdquo

rdquo 65

24

rdquo

rdquo

( )

(

( ) )

(

)

( )

25

66

(

) 67

68

66 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at para 29 (ldquo rdquo)

67 68 Christina Fink Living Silence in Burma (2nd ed Zed Books London 2009) at 134 as cited in

Fortify Rights ldquoMidnight Intrusion Ending Guest Registration and Household Inspections in

Myanmarrdquo (March 2015) Fortify Rights ltwwwfortifyrightsorggt at 12

26

၁၁

N k 69

-

-

( )

rdquo70

71

(

)

69 Cheesman above n 2 at 101 70 Cheesman n 2 at 117 71 See Part II subpart B above

27

Justice Base

customer

service trainings

Justice Base

( -၁)

၁၉( ) ၁

( )

28

( (၁) )

( - ) (၁)

( )

( - )

( - )

(

)

29

( - )

( )

( -၁)

( - )

( - )

30

31

( )

-

-

-

32

-

-

---------------------------- _________________________

33

( )

- 72 ၁

( )

( )

___________________________________________________________

( )

__________________________________________________ ( )

Yes No ( ______________________________________)

Yes No ___________________________________________________________

Yes No ( ________________________________________)

72

34

၁၁

____________________________________________________ Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No _________________ - Yes No - Yes No - ________________ Yes No ________________ - Yes No

( ______________________________________) ______ _______________________________ Yes No ___________________________________________________ Yes No __________________________________________________

( )

35

Yes No Yes No Yes No

Yes No - - Yes No - Yes No ___________________________ - Yes No -- Yes No - Yes No ( _____________)

၁၆ ( )

Yes No

Yes No

36

၁၉

( )

( )

Yes No Yes No

Yes No ____________

( )

Yes No Yes No

( )

37

- 73 ၁ gt gt၁ gt gt၁ gt +

[____ ____ ] ၆

[ ________________________________)

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

73

38

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

၉ cause list

Yes No

39

Yes No Yes No [ ____________________________________________)

၁၁

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

40

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No ___________________________________________

41

__________________________________________

Yes No [ ____________________________________________]

Yes No Yes No _____________________________________________________]

၁၆

Yes No [ ________________________________________________] Yes No [ ___________________________________________] Yes No

42

[ _________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________]

Yes No [ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________]

Yes No ____________________________________ ________________________________________________________

၁၉

Yes No ( ) _______________________________________________ [ ] Yes No [ ___________________________________________]

Yes No -

43

] - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------___________________________]

Yes No ______________________________________________ _________________________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________ ____________________________________________________----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Yes No _________________________________

44

( ) ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ Yes No

________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________

( )

Yes No __________________________________________________ Yes No -

Yes No _________________________________________________ ___________________

45

_________________________________________

Yes No ___________________________ ______________________

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No

46

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

47

Framing of the charges

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Final Argument

Yes No Yes No

ဍ Yes No

48

Yes No

Yes No Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Comments

49

- 1 2

3

4 5 a b c 6

7

8

[_______________________________]

9

10

Yes No

11

[ ________________________________)

12

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___]

50

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

13

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

14

[ _______________________________________]

1 cause list Yes

51

5

No

16

Yes No Yes No __________________________________________]

17

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

19

Yes No

20

Page 23: JUSTICE BASE - Progressive Voice...Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal 5 (2000), at pg. 25. 14 Nick Cheesman “Thin Rule of Law or Un-Rule of Law in Myanmar?”(2010) 82(4) Pacific

13

45

UDHR PR UDHR

46 UDHR 47

PR 48

49 UDHR

(UDHR

) UDHR

50

UDHR

ICCPR

51

45 At para 28 46 See ldquoYearbook of the United Nations 1948ndash1949rdquo The Yearbook of the United Nations

ltunyearbookunorggt at 535 47 Malcolm N Shaw International Law (7th ed Cambridge University Press Cambridge 2014)

at 279 48 Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review Myanmar AHRC3113 (23

December 015) at [1434] reaffirming the commitment expressed during the previous

Universal Periodic Review Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review

Myanmar AHRC179 (24 March 2011) at [1046] ( ) see AHRC3113 (23 December 2015) at [14348]

49 See United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner ldquoStatus of Ratificationrdquo

lthttpindicatorsohchrorggt 50 ldquo rdquo Restat 3d of the Foreign Relations Law of the US (1987) at sect

102(2) and (3) 51 Patrick Robinson ldquoThe Right to a Fair Trial in International Law with Specific Reference to

the Work of the ICTYrdquo (2009) 3 Berk J Intl L Publicist 1 at 5 See also Yvonne McDermott

ldquoThe Right to a Fair Trial in International Criminal Lawrdquo (PhD thesis National University of

Ireland Galway July 2013) at 17 and in a related context see ldquoCustomary International

Humanitarian Law Databaserdquo International Committee of the Red Cross lthttpsihl-

databasesicrcorgcustomary-ihlengdocsv1_rul_rule100gt at Rule 100

14

52

- Case Study

( H R g ( HRrdquo))

rdquo

rdquo

53

HR ၆

rdquo

rdquo 54

rdquo

rdquo

၆ 55

၁၉ HR

52 International Commission of Jurists ldquoTrial Observation Manual for Criminal Proceedingsrdquo

(22 July 2009) lthttpswwwicjorgcriminal-trials-and-human-rights-a-manual-on-trial-

observationgt at 84 53 UK Human Rights Act 1998 Schedule I Article 6(1) (emphasis added) 54 Philis v Greece Application No 1275087 1378088 1400388 (27 August 1991) at sect59 55 Ashingdane v the United Kingdom No 822578) (28 May 1985) at sect57

15

HR

( )

-၁

( )

-

၁ -

( )

56

57

56 57

16

( )

(

) (

)

58

( )

58

17

59

Justice Base

Justice

Base

၆ ( ၁

) ၆

၁၁၉ 60

-

59

( )

60

18

61

62

rdquo

61 62

19

( )

rdquo

rdquo

rdquo rdquo

rdquo

rdquo rdquo

rdquo

rdquo

-

rdquo rdquo

( )

20

- -

63 (

)

-

-

63 ၁

Antoni Slodkowski and Soe Zeya Tun ldquoMyanmar

opposition candidate attacked with machetesrdquo (29 October 2015) Reuters

httpwwwreuterscomarticleus-myanmar-election-violence-idUSKCN0SN2GU2015102

21

( )

Diagram 2 A typical courtroom

(

)

Judge

Table

Clerk

Witness

Clerk

Lawyer

Lawyer Complainant

Defendant

Lawyer

22

-

-

64

( )

64 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at [28]

23

( )

65

-

rdquo

rdquo

rdquo 65

24

rdquo

rdquo

( )

(

( ) )

(

)

( )

25

66

(

) 67

68

66 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at para 29 (ldquo rdquo)

67 68 Christina Fink Living Silence in Burma (2nd ed Zed Books London 2009) at 134 as cited in

Fortify Rights ldquoMidnight Intrusion Ending Guest Registration and Household Inspections in

Myanmarrdquo (March 2015) Fortify Rights ltwwwfortifyrightsorggt at 12

26

၁၁

N k 69

-

-

( )

rdquo70

71

(

)

69 Cheesman above n 2 at 101 70 Cheesman n 2 at 117 71 See Part II subpart B above

27

Justice Base

customer

service trainings

Justice Base

( -၁)

၁၉( ) ၁

( )

28

( (၁) )

( - ) (၁)

( )

( - )

( - )

(

)

29

( - )

( )

( -၁)

( - )

( - )

30

31

( )

-

-

-

32

-

-

---------------------------- _________________________

33

( )

- 72 ၁

( )

( )

___________________________________________________________

( )

__________________________________________________ ( )

Yes No ( ______________________________________)

Yes No ___________________________________________________________

Yes No ( ________________________________________)

72

34

၁၁

____________________________________________________ Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No _________________ - Yes No - Yes No - ________________ Yes No ________________ - Yes No

( ______________________________________) ______ _______________________________ Yes No ___________________________________________________ Yes No __________________________________________________

( )

35

Yes No Yes No Yes No

Yes No - - Yes No - Yes No ___________________________ - Yes No -- Yes No - Yes No ( _____________)

၁၆ ( )

Yes No

Yes No

36

၁၉

( )

( )

Yes No Yes No

Yes No ____________

( )

Yes No Yes No

( )

37

- 73 ၁ gt gt၁ gt gt၁ gt +

[____ ____ ] ၆

[ ________________________________)

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

73

38

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

၉ cause list

Yes No

39

Yes No Yes No [ ____________________________________________)

၁၁

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

40

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No ___________________________________________

41

__________________________________________

Yes No [ ____________________________________________]

Yes No Yes No _____________________________________________________]

၁၆

Yes No [ ________________________________________________] Yes No [ ___________________________________________] Yes No

42

[ _________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________]

Yes No [ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________]

Yes No ____________________________________ ________________________________________________________

၁၉

Yes No ( ) _______________________________________________ [ ] Yes No [ ___________________________________________]

Yes No -

43

] - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------___________________________]

Yes No ______________________________________________ _________________________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________ ____________________________________________________----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Yes No _________________________________

44

( ) ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ Yes No

________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________

( )

Yes No __________________________________________________ Yes No -

Yes No _________________________________________________ ___________________

45

_________________________________________

Yes No ___________________________ ______________________

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No

46

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

47

Framing of the charges

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Final Argument

Yes No Yes No

ဍ Yes No

48

Yes No

Yes No Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Comments

49

- 1 2

3

4 5 a b c 6

7

8

[_______________________________]

9

10

Yes No

11

[ ________________________________)

12

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___]

50

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

13

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

14

[ _______________________________________]

1 cause list Yes

51

5

No

16

Yes No Yes No __________________________________________]

17

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

19

Yes No

20

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14

52

- Case Study

( H R g ( HRrdquo))

rdquo

rdquo

53

HR ၆

rdquo

rdquo 54

rdquo

rdquo

၆ 55

၁၉ HR

52 International Commission of Jurists ldquoTrial Observation Manual for Criminal Proceedingsrdquo

(22 July 2009) lthttpswwwicjorgcriminal-trials-and-human-rights-a-manual-on-trial-

observationgt at 84 53 UK Human Rights Act 1998 Schedule I Article 6(1) (emphasis added) 54 Philis v Greece Application No 1275087 1378088 1400388 (27 August 1991) at sect59 55 Ashingdane v the United Kingdom No 822578) (28 May 1985) at sect57

15

HR

( )

-၁

( )

-

၁ -

( )

56

57

56 57

16

( )

(

) (

)

58

( )

58

17

59

Justice Base

Justice

Base

၆ ( ၁

) ၆

၁၁၉ 60

-

59

( )

60

18

61

62

rdquo

61 62

19

( )

rdquo

rdquo

rdquo rdquo

rdquo

rdquo rdquo

rdquo

rdquo

-

rdquo rdquo

( )

20

- -

63 (

)

-

-

63 ၁

Antoni Slodkowski and Soe Zeya Tun ldquoMyanmar

opposition candidate attacked with machetesrdquo (29 October 2015) Reuters

httpwwwreuterscomarticleus-myanmar-election-violence-idUSKCN0SN2GU2015102

21

( )

Diagram 2 A typical courtroom

(

)

Judge

Table

Clerk

Witness

Clerk

Lawyer

Lawyer Complainant

Defendant

Lawyer

22

-

-

64

( )

64 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at [28]

23

( )

65

-

rdquo

rdquo

rdquo 65

24

rdquo

rdquo

( )

(

( ) )

(

)

( )

25

66

(

) 67

68

66 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at para 29 (ldquo rdquo)

67 68 Christina Fink Living Silence in Burma (2nd ed Zed Books London 2009) at 134 as cited in

Fortify Rights ldquoMidnight Intrusion Ending Guest Registration and Household Inspections in

Myanmarrdquo (March 2015) Fortify Rights ltwwwfortifyrightsorggt at 12

26

၁၁

N k 69

-

-

( )

rdquo70

71

(

)

69 Cheesman above n 2 at 101 70 Cheesman n 2 at 117 71 See Part II subpart B above

27

Justice Base

customer

service trainings

Justice Base

( -၁)

၁၉( ) ၁

( )

28

( (၁) )

( - ) (၁)

( )

( - )

( - )

(

)

29

( - )

( )

( -၁)

( - )

( - )

30

31

( )

-

-

-

32

-

-

---------------------------- _________________________

33

( )

- 72 ၁

( )

( )

___________________________________________________________

( )

__________________________________________________ ( )

Yes No ( ______________________________________)

Yes No ___________________________________________________________

Yes No ( ________________________________________)

72

34

၁၁

____________________________________________________ Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No _________________ - Yes No - Yes No - ________________ Yes No ________________ - Yes No

( ______________________________________) ______ _______________________________ Yes No ___________________________________________________ Yes No __________________________________________________

( )

35

Yes No Yes No Yes No

Yes No - - Yes No - Yes No ___________________________ - Yes No -- Yes No - Yes No ( _____________)

၁၆ ( )

Yes No

Yes No

36

၁၉

( )

( )

Yes No Yes No

Yes No ____________

( )

Yes No Yes No

( )

37

- 73 ၁ gt gt၁ gt gt၁ gt +

[____ ____ ] ၆

[ ________________________________)

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

73

38

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

၉ cause list

Yes No

39

Yes No Yes No [ ____________________________________________)

၁၁

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

40

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No ___________________________________________

41

__________________________________________

Yes No [ ____________________________________________]

Yes No Yes No _____________________________________________________]

၁၆

Yes No [ ________________________________________________] Yes No [ ___________________________________________] Yes No

42

[ _________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________]

Yes No [ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________]

Yes No ____________________________________ ________________________________________________________

၁၉

Yes No ( ) _______________________________________________ [ ] Yes No [ ___________________________________________]

Yes No -

43

] - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------___________________________]

Yes No ______________________________________________ _________________________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________ ____________________________________________________----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Yes No _________________________________

44

( ) ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ Yes No

________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________

( )

Yes No __________________________________________________ Yes No -

Yes No _________________________________________________ ___________________

45

_________________________________________

Yes No ___________________________ ______________________

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No

46

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

47

Framing of the charges

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Final Argument

Yes No Yes No

ဍ Yes No

48

Yes No

Yes No Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Comments

49

- 1 2

3

4 5 a b c 6

7

8

[_______________________________]

9

10

Yes No

11

[ ________________________________)

12

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___]

50

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

13

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

14

[ _______________________________________]

1 cause list Yes

51

5

No

16

Yes No Yes No __________________________________________]

17

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

19

Yes No

20

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15

HR

( )

-၁

( )

-

၁ -

( )

56

57

56 57

16

( )

(

) (

)

58

( )

58

17

59

Justice Base

Justice

Base

၆ ( ၁

) ၆

၁၁၉ 60

-

59

( )

60

18

61

62

rdquo

61 62

19

( )

rdquo

rdquo

rdquo rdquo

rdquo

rdquo rdquo

rdquo

rdquo

-

rdquo rdquo

( )

20

- -

63 (

)

-

-

63 ၁

Antoni Slodkowski and Soe Zeya Tun ldquoMyanmar

opposition candidate attacked with machetesrdquo (29 October 2015) Reuters

httpwwwreuterscomarticleus-myanmar-election-violence-idUSKCN0SN2GU2015102

21

( )

Diagram 2 A typical courtroom

(

)

Judge

Table

Clerk

Witness

Clerk

Lawyer

Lawyer Complainant

Defendant

Lawyer

22

-

-

64

( )

64 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at [28]

23

( )

65

-

rdquo

rdquo

rdquo 65

24

rdquo

rdquo

( )

(

( ) )

(

)

( )

25

66

(

) 67

68

66 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at para 29 (ldquo rdquo)

67 68 Christina Fink Living Silence in Burma (2nd ed Zed Books London 2009) at 134 as cited in

Fortify Rights ldquoMidnight Intrusion Ending Guest Registration and Household Inspections in

Myanmarrdquo (March 2015) Fortify Rights ltwwwfortifyrightsorggt at 12

26

၁၁

N k 69

-

-

( )

rdquo70

71

(

)

69 Cheesman above n 2 at 101 70 Cheesman n 2 at 117 71 See Part II subpart B above

27

Justice Base

customer

service trainings

Justice Base

( -၁)

၁၉( ) ၁

( )

28

( (၁) )

( - ) (၁)

( )

( - )

( - )

(

)

29

( - )

( )

( -၁)

( - )

( - )

30

31

( )

-

-

-

32

-

-

---------------------------- _________________________

33

( )

- 72 ၁

( )

( )

___________________________________________________________

( )

__________________________________________________ ( )

Yes No ( ______________________________________)

Yes No ___________________________________________________________

Yes No ( ________________________________________)

72

34

၁၁

____________________________________________________ Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No _________________ - Yes No - Yes No - ________________ Yes No ________________ - Yes No

( ______________________________________) ______ _______________________________ Yes No ___________________________________________________ Yes No __________________________________________________

( )

35

Yes No Yes No Yes No

Yes No - - Yes No - Yes No ___________________________ - Yes No -- Yes No - Yes No ( _____________)

၁၆ ( )

Yes No

Yes No

36

၁၉

( )

( )

Yes No Yes No

Yes No ____________

( )

Yes No Yes No

( )

37

- 73 ၁ gt gt၁ gt gt၁ gt +

[____ ____ ] ၆

[ ________________________________)

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

73

38

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

၉ cause list

Yes No

39

Yes No Yes No [ ____________________________________________)

၁၁

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

40

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No ___________________________________________

41

__________________________________________

Yes No [ ____________________________________________]

Yes No Yes No _____________________________________________________]

၁၆

Yes No [ ________________________________________________] Yes No [ ___________________________________________] Yes No

42

[ _________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________]

Yes No [ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________]

Yes No ____________________________________ ________________________________________________________

၁၉

Yes No ( ) _______________________________________________ [ ] Yes No [ ___________________________________________]

Yes No -

43

] - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------___________________________]

Yes No ______________________________________________ _________________________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________ ____________________________________________________----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Yes No _________________________________

44

( ) ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ Yes No

________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________

( )

Yes No __________________________________________________ Yes No -

Yes No _________________________________________________ ___________________

45

_________________________________________

Yes No ___________________________ ______________________

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No

46

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

47

Framing of the charges

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Final Argument

Yes No Yes No

ဍ Yes No

48

Yes No

Yes No Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Comments

49

- 1 2

3

4 5 a b c 6

7

8

[_______________________________]

9

10

Yes No

11

[ ________________________________)

12

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___]

50

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

13

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

14

[ _______________________________________]

1 cause list Yes

51

5

No

16

Yes No Yes No __________________________________________]

17

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

19

Yes No

20

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16

( )

(

) (

)

58

( )

58

17

59

Justice Base

Justice

Base

၆ ( ၁

) ၆

၁၁၉ 60

-

59

( )

60

18

61

62

rdquo

61 62

19

( )

rdquo

rdquo

rdquo rdquo

rdquo

rdquo rdquo

rdquo

rdquo

-

rdquo rdquo

( )

20

- -

63 (

)

-

-

63 ၁

Antoni Slodkowski and Soe Zeya Tun ldquoMyanmar

opposition candidate attacked with machetesrdquo (29 October 2015) Reuters

httpwwwreuterscomarticleus-myanmar-election-violence-idUSKCN0SN2GU2015102

21

( )

Diagram 2 A typical courtroom

(

)

Judge

Table

Clerk

Witness

Clerk

Lawyer

Lawyer Complainant

Defendant

Lawyer

22

-

-

64

( )

64 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at [28]

23

( )

65

-

rdquo

rdquo

rdquo 65

24

rdquo

rdquo

( )

(

( ) )

(

)

( )

25

66

(

) 67

68

66 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at para 29 (ldquo rdquo)

67 68 Christina Fink Living Silence in Burma (2nd ed Zed Books London 2009) at 134 as cited in

Fortify Rights ldquoMidnight Intrusion Ending Guest Registration and Household Inspections in

Myanmarrdquo (March 2015) Fortify Rights ltwwwfortifyrightsorggt at 12

26

၁၁

N k 69

-

-

( )

rdquo70

71

(

)

69 Cheesman above n 2 at 101 70 Cheesman n 2 at 117 71 See Part II subpart B above

27

Justice Base

customer

service trainings

Justice Base

( -၁)

၁၉( ) ၁

( )

28

( (၁) )

( - ) (၁)

( )

( - )

( - )

(

)

29

( - )

( )

( -၁)

( - )

( - )

30

31

( )

-

-

-

32

-

-

---------------------------- _________________________

33

( )

- 72 ၁

( )

( )

___________________________________________________________

( )

__________________________________________________ ( )

Yes No ( ______________________________________)

Yes No ___________________________________________________________

Yes No ( ________________________________________)

72

34

၁၁

____________________________________________________ Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No _________________ - Yes No - Yes No - ________________ Yes No ________________ - Yes No

( ______________________________________) ______ _______________________________ Yes No ___________________________________________________ Yes No __________________________________________________

( )

35

Yes No Yes No Yes No

Yes No - - Yes No - Yes No ___________________________ - Yes No -- Yes No - Yes No ( _____________)

၁၆ ( )

Yes No

Yes No

36

၁၉

( )

( )

Yes No Yes No

Yes No ____________

( )

Yes No Yes No

( )

37

- 73 ၁ gt gt၁ gt gt၁ gt +

[____ ____ ] ၆

[ ________________________________)

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

73

38

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

၉ cause list

Yes No

39

Yes No Yes No [ ____________________________________________)

၁၁

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

40

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No ___________________________________________

41

__________________________________________

Yes No [ ____________________________________________]

Yes No Yes No _____________________________________________________]

၁၆

Yes No [ ________________________________________________] Yes No [ ___________________________________________] Yes No

42

[ _________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________]

Yes No [ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________]

Yes No ____________________________________ ________________________________________________________

၁၉

Yes No ( ) _______________________________________________ [ ] Yes No [ ___________________________________________]

Yes No -

43

] - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------___________________________]

Yes No ______________________________________________ _________________________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________ ____________________________________________________----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Yes No _________________________________

44

( ) ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ Yes No

________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________

( )

Yes No __________________________________________________ Yes No -

Yes No _________________________________________________ ___________________

45

_________________________________________

Yes No ___________________________ ______________________

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No

46

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

47

Framing of the charges

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Final Argument

Yes No Yes No

ဍ Yes No

48

Yes No

Yes No Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Comments

49

- 1 2

3

4 5 a b c 6

7

8

[_______________________________]

9

10

Yes No

11

[ ________________________________)

12

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___]

50

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

13

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

14

[ _______________________________________]

1 cause list Yes

51

5

No

16

Yes No Yes No __________________________________________]

17

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

19

Yes No

20

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17

59

Justice Base

Justice

Base

၆ ( ၁

) ၆

၁၁၉ 60

-

59

( )

60

18

61

62

rdquo

61 62

19

( )

rdquo

rdquo

rdquo rdquo

rdquo

rdquo rdquo

rdquo

rdquo

-

rdquo rdquo

( )

20

- -

63 (

)

-

-

63 ၁

Antoni Slodkowski and Soe Zeya Tun ldquoMyanmar

opposition candidate attacked with machetesrdquo (29 October 2015) Reuters

httpwwwreuterscomarticleus-myanmar-election-violence-idUSKCN0SN2GU2015102

21

( )

Diagram 2 A typical courtroom

(

)

Judge

Table

Clerk

Witness

Clerk

Lawyer

Lawyer Complainant

Defendant

Lawyer

22

-

-

64

( )

64 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at [28]

23

( )

65

-

rdquo

rdquo

rdquo 65

24

rdquo

rdquo

( )

(

( ) )

(

)

( )

25

66

(

) 67

68

66 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at para 29 (ldquo rdquo)

67 68 Christina Fink Living Silence in Burma (2nd ed Zed Books London 2009) at 134 as cited in

Fortify Rights ldquoMidnight Intrusion Ending Guest Registration and Household Inspections in

Myanmarrdquo (March 2015) Fortify Rights ltwwwfortifyrightsorggt at 12

26

၁၁

N k 69

-

-

( )

rdquo70

71

(

)

69 Cheesman above n 2 at 101 70 Cheesman n 2 at 117 71 See Part II subpart B above

27

Justice Base

customer

service trainings

Justice Base

( -၁)

၁၉( ) ၁

( )

28

( (၁) )

( - ) (၁)

( )

( - )

( - )

(

)

29

( - )

( )

( -၁)

( - )

( - )

30

31

( )

-

-

-

32

-

-

---------------------------- _________________________

33

( )

- 72 ၁

( )

( )

___________________________________________________________

( )

__________________________________________________ ( )

Yes No ( ______________________________________)

Yes No ___________________________________________________________

Yes No ( ________________________________________)

72

34

၁၁

____________________________________________________ Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No _________________ - Yes No - Yes No - ________________ Yes No ________________ - Yes No

( ______________________________________) ______ _______________________________ Yes No ___________________________________________________ Yes No __________________________________________________

( )

35

Yes No Yes No Yes No

Yes No - - Yes No - Yes No ___________________________ - Yes No -- Yes No - Yes No ( _____________)

၁၆ ( )

Yes No

Yes No

36

၁၉

( )

( )

Yes No Yes No

Yes No ____________

( )

Yes No Yes No

( )

37

- 73 ၁ gt gt၁ gt gt၁ gt +

[____ ____ ] ၆

[ ________________________________)

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

73

38

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

၉ cause list

Yes No

39

Yes No Yes No [ ____________________________________________)

၁၁

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

40

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No ___________________________________________

41

__________________________________________

Yes No [ ____________________________________________]

Yes No Yes No _____________________________________________________]

၁၆

Yes No [ ________________________________________________] Yes No [ ___________________________________________] Yes No

42

[ _________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________]

Yes No [ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________]

Yes No ____________________________________ ________________________________________________________

၁၉

Yes No ( ) _______________________________________________ [ ] Yes No [ ___________________________________________]

Yes No -

43

] - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------___________________________]

Yes No ______________________________________________ _________________________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________ ____________________________________________________----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Yes No _________________________________

44

( ) ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ Yes No

________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________

( )

Yes No __________________________________________________ Yes No -

Yes No _________________________________________________ ___________________

45

_________________________________________

Yes No ___________________________ ______________________

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No

46

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

47

Framing of the charges

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Final Argument

Yes No Yes No

ဍ Yes No

48

Yes No

Yes No Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Comments

49

- 1 2

3

4 5 a b c 6

7

8

[_______________________________]

9

10

Yes No

11

[ ________________________________)

12

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___]

50

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

13

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

14

[ _______________________________________]

1 cause list Yes

51

5

No

16

Yes No Yes No __________________________________________]

17

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

19

Yes No

20

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18

61

62

rdquo

61 62

19

( )

rdquo

rdquo

rdquo rdquo

rdquo

rdquo rdquo

rdquo

rdquo

-

rdquo rdquo

( )

20

- -

63 (

)

-

-

63 ၁

Antoni Slodkowski and Soe Zeya Tun ldquoMyanmar

opposition candidate attacked with machetesrdquo (29 October 2015) Reuters

httpwwwreuterscomarticleus-myanmar-election-violence-idUSKCN0SN2GU2015102

21

( )

Diagram 2 A typical courtroom

(

)

Judge

Table

Clerk

Witness

Clerk

Lawyer

Lawyer Complainant

Defendant

Lawyer

22

-

-

64

( )

64 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at [28]

23

( )

65

-

rdquo

rdquo

rdquo 65

24

rdquo

rdquo

( )

(

( ) )

(

)

( )

25

66

(

) 67

68

66 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at para 29 (ldquo rdquo)

67 68 Christina Fink Living Silence in Burma (2nd ed Zed Books London 2009) at 134 as cited in

Fortify Rights ldquoMidnight Intrusion Ending Guest Registration and Household Inspections in

Myanmarrdquo (March 2015) Fortify Rights ltwwwfortifyrightsorggt at 12

26

၁၁

N k 69

-

-

( )

rdquo70

71

(

)

69 Cheesman above n 2 at 101 70 Cheesman n 2 at 117 71 See Part II subpart B above

27

Justice Base

customer

service trainings

Justice Base

( -၁)

၁၉( ) ၁

( )

28

( (၁) )

( - ) (၁)

( )

( - )

( - )

(

)

29

( - )

( )

( -၁)

( - )

( - )

30

31

( )

-

-

-

32

-

-

---------------------------- _________________________

33

( )

- 72 ၁

( )

( )

___________________________________________________________

( )

__________________________________________________ ( )

Yes No ( ______________________________________)

Yes No ___________________________________________________________

Yes No ( ________________________________________)

72

34

၁၁

____________________________________________________ Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No _________________ - Yes No - Yes No - ________________ Yes No ________________ - Yes No

( ______________________________________) ______ _______________________________ Yes No ___________________________________________________ Yes No __________________________________________________

( )

35

Yes No Yes No Yes No

Yes No - - Yes No - Yes No ___________________________ - Yes No -- Yes No - Yes No ( _____________)

၁၆ ( )

Yes No

Yes No

36

၁၉

( )

( )

Yes No Yes No

Yes No ____________

( )

Yes No Yes No

( )

37

- 73 ၁ gt gt၁ gt gt၁ gt +

[____ ____ ] ၆

[ ________________________________)

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

73

38

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

၉ cause list

Yes No

39

Yes No Yes No [ ____________________________________________)

၁၁

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

40

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No ___________________________________________

41

__________________________________________

Yes No [ ____________________________________________]

Yes No Yes No _____________________________________________________]

၁၆

Yes No [ ________________________________________________] Yes No [ ___________________________________________] Yes No

42

[ _________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________]

Yes No [ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________]

Yes No ____________________________________ ________________________________________________________

၁၉

Yes No ( ) _______________________________________________ [ ] Yes No [ ___________________________________________]

Yes No -

43

] - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------___________________________]

Yes No ______________________________________________ _________________________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________ ____________________________________________________----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Yes No _________________________________

44

( ) ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ Yes No

________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________

( )

Yes No __________________________________________________ Yes No -

Yes No _________________________________________________ ___________________

45

_________________________________________

Yes No ___________________________ ______________________

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No

46

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

47

Framing of the charges

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Final Argument

Yes No Yes No

ဍ Yes No

48

Yes No

Yes No Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Comments

49

- 1 2

3

4 5 a b c 6

7

8

[_______________________________]

9

10

Yes No

11

[ ________________________________)

12

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___]

50

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

13

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

14

[ _______________________________________]

1 cause list Yes

51

5

No

16

Yes No Yes No __________________________________________]

17

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

19

Yes No

20

Page 29: JUSTICE BASE - Progressive Voice...Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal 5 (2000), at pg. 25. 14 Nick Cheesman “Thin Rule of Law or Un-Rule of Law in Myanmar?”(2010) 82(4) Pacific

19

( )

rdquo

rdquo

rdquo rdquo

rdquo

rdquo rdquo

rdquo

rdquo

-

rdquo rdquo

( )

20

- -

63 (

)

-

-

63 ၁

Antoni Slodkowski and Soe Zeya Tun ldquoMyanmar

opposition candidate attacked with machetesrdquo (29 October 2015) Reuters

httpwwwreuterscomarticleus-myanmar-election-violence-idUSKCN0SN2GU2015102

21

( )

Diagram 2 A typical courtroom

(

)

Judge

Table

Clerk

Witness

Clerk

Lawyer

Lawyer Complainant

Defendant

Lawyer

22

-

-

64

( )

64 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at [28]

23

( )

65

-

rdquo

rdquo

rdquo 65

24

rdquo

rdquo

( )

(

( ) )

(

)

( )

25

66

(

) 67

68

66 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at para 29 (ldquo rdquo)

67 68 Christina Fink Living Silence in Burma (2nd ed Zed Books London 2009) at 134 as cited in

Fortify Rights ldquoMidnight Intrusion Ending Guest Registration and Household Inspections in

Myanmarrdquo (March 2015) Fortify Rights ltwwwfortifyrightsorggt at 12

26

၁၁

N k 69

-

-

( )

rdquo70

71

(

)

69 Cheesman above n 2 at 101 70 Cheesman n 2 at 117 71 See Part II subpart B above

27

Justice Base

customer

service trainings

Justice Base

( -၁)

၁၉( ) ၁

( )

28

( (၁) )

( - ) (၁)

( )

( - )

( - )

(

)

29

( - )

( )

( -၁)

( - )

( - )

30

31

( )

-

-

-

32

-

-

---------------------------- _________________________

33

( )

- 72 ၁

( )

( )

___________________________________________________________

( )

__________________________________________________ ( )

Yes No ( ______________________________________)

Yes No ___________________________________________________________

Yes No ( ________________________________________)

72

34

၁၁

____________________________________________________ Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No _________________ - Yes No - Yes No - ________________ Yes No ________________ - Yes No

( ______________________________________) ______ _______________________________ Yes No ___________________________________________________ Yes No __________________________________________________

( )

35

Yes No Yes No Yes No

Yes No - - Yes No - Yes No ___________________________ - Yes No -- Yes No - Yes No ( _____________)

၁၆ ( )

Yes No

Yes No

36

၁၉

( )

( )

Yes No Yes No

Yes No ____________

( )

Yes No Yes No

( )

37

- 73 ၁ gt gt၁ gt gt၁ gt +

[____ ____ ] ၆

[ ________________________________)

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

73

38

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

၉ cause list

Yes No

39

Yes No Yes No [ ____________________________________________)

၁၁

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

40

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No ___________________________________________

41

__________________________________________

Yes No [ ____________________________________________]

Yes No Yes No _____________________________________________________]

၁၆

Yes No [ ________________________________________________] Yes No [ ___________________________________________] Yes No

42

[ _________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________]

Yes No [ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________]

Yes No ____________________________________ ________________________________________________________

၁၉

Yes No ( ) _______________________________________________ [ ] Yes No [ ___________________________________________]

Yes No -

43

] - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------___________________________]

Yes No ______________________________________________ _________________________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________ ____________________________________________________----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Yes No _________________________________

44

( ) ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ Yes No

________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________

( )

Yes No __________________________________________________ Yes No -

Yes No _________________________________________________ ___________________

45

_________________________________________

Yes No ___________________________ ______________________

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No

46

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

47

Framing of the charges

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Final Argument

Yes No Yes No

ဍ Yes No

48

Yes No

Yes No Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Comments

49

- 1 2

3

4 5 a b c 6

7

8

[_______________________________]

9

10

Yes No

11

[ ________________________________)

12

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___]

50

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

13

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

14

[ _______________________________________]

1 cause list Yes

51

5

No

16

Yes No Yes No __________________________________________]

17

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

19

Yes No

20

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20

- -

63 (

)

-

-

63 ၁

Antoni Slodkowski and Soe Zeya Tun ldquoMyanmar

opposition candidate attacked with machetesrdquo (29 October 2015) Reuters

httpwwwreuterscomarticleus-myanmar-election-violence-idUSKCN0SN2GU2015102

21

( )

Diagram 2 A typical courtroom

(

)

Judge

Table

Clerk

Witness

Clerk

Lawyer

Lawyer Complainant

Defendant

Lawyer

22

-

-

64

( )

64 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at [28]

23

( )

65

-

rdquo

rdquo

rdquo 65

24

rdquo

rdquo

( )

(

( ) )

(

)

( )

25

66

(

) 67

68

66 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at para 29 (ldquo rdquo)

67 68 Christina Fink Living Silence in Burma (2nd ed Zed Books London 2009) at 134 as cited in

Fortify Rights ldquoMidnight Intrusion Ending Guest Registration and Household Inspections in

Myanmarrdquo (March 2015) Fortify Rights ltwwwfortifyrightsorggt at 12

26

၁၁

N k 69

-

-

( )

rdquo70

71

(

)

69 Cheesman above n 2 at 101 70 Cheesman n 2 at 117 71 See Part II subpart B above

27

Justice Base

customer

service trainings

Justice Base

( -၁)

၁၉( ) ၁

( )

28

( (၁) )

( - ) (၁)

( )

( - )

( - )

(

)

29

( - )

( )

( -၁)

( - )

( - )

30

31

( )

-

-

-

32

-

-

---------------------------- _________________________

33

( )

- 72 ၁

( )

( )

___________________________________________________________

( )

__________________________________________________ ( )

Yes No ( ______________________________________)

Yes No ___________________________________________________________

Yes No ( ________________________________________)

72

34

၁၁

____________________________________________________ Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No _________________ - Yes No - Yes No - ________________ Yes No ________________ - Yes No

( ______________________________________) ______ _______________________________ Yes No ___________________________________________________ Yes No __________________________________________________

( )

35

Yes No Yes No Yes No

Yes No - - Yes No - Yes No ___________________________ - Yes No -- Yes No - Yes No ( _____________)

၁၆ ( )

Yes No

Yes No

36

၁၉

( )

( )

Yes No Yes No

Yes No ____________

( )

Yes No Yes No

( )

37

- 73 ၁ gt gt၁ gt gt၁ gt +

[____ ____ ] ၆

[ ________________________________)

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

73

38

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

၉ cause list

Yes No

39

Yes No Yes No [ ____________________________________________)

၁၁

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

40

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No ___________________________________________

41

__________________________________________

Yes No [ ____________________________________________]

Yes No Yes No _____________________________________________________]

၁၆

Yes No [ ________________________________________________] Yes No [ ___________________________________________] Yes No

42

[ _________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________]

Yes No [ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________]

Yes No ____________________________________ ________________________________________________________

၁၉

Yes No ( ) _______________________________________________ [ ] Yes No [ ___________________________________________]

Yes No -

43

] - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------___________________________]

Yes No ______________________________________________ _________________________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________ ____________________________________________________----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Yes No _________________________________

44

( ) ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ Yes No

________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________

( )

Yes No __________________________________________________ Yes No -

Yes No _________________________________________________ ___________________

45

_________________________________________

Yes No ___________________________ ______________________

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No

46

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

47

Framing of the charges

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Final Argument

Yes No Yes No

ဍ Yes No

48

Yes No

Yes No Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Comments

49

- 1 2

3

4 5 a b c 6

7

8

[_______________________________]

9

10

Yes No

11

[ ________________________________)

12

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___]

50

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

13

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

14

[ _______________________________________]

1 cause list Yes

51

5

No

16

Yes No Yes No __________________________________________]

17

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

19

Yes No

20

Page 31: JUSTICE BASE - Progressive Voice...Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal 5 (2000), at pg. 25. 14 Nick Cheesman “Thin Rule of Law or Un-Rule of Law in Myanmar?”(2010) 82(4) Pacific

21

( )

Diagram 2 A typical courtroom

(

)

Judge

Table

Clerk

Witness

Clerk

Lawyer

Lawyer Complainant

Defendant

Lawyer

22

-

-

64

( )

64 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at [28]

23

( )

65

-

rdquo

rdquo

rdquo 65

24

rdquo

rdquo

( )

(

( ) )

(

)

( )

25

66

(

) 67

68

66 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at para 29 (ldquo rdquo)

67 68 Christina Fink Living Silence in Burma (2nd ed Zed Books London 2009) at 134 as cited in

Fortify Rights ldquoMidnight Intrusion Ending Guest Registration and Household Inspections in

Myanmarrdquo (March 2015) Fortify Rights ltwwwfortifyrightsorggt at 12

26

၁၁

N k 69

-

-

( )

rdquo70

71

(

)

69 Cheesman above n 2 at 101 70 Cheesman n 2 at 117 71 See Part II subpart B above

27

Justice Base

customer

service trainings

Justice Base

( -၁)

၁၉( ) ၁

( )

28

( (၁) )

( - ) (၁)

( )

( - )

( - )

(

)

29

( - )

( )

( -၁)

( - )

( - )

30

31

( )

-

-

-

32

-

-

---------------------------- _________________________

33

( )

- 72 ၁

( )

( )

___________________________________________________________

( )

__________________________________________________ ( )

Yes No ( ______________________________________)

Yes No ___________________________________________________________

Yes No ( ________________________________________)

72

34

၁၁

____________________________________________________ Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No _________________ - Yes No - Yes No - ________________ Yes No ________________ - Yes No

( ______________________________________) ______ _______________________________ Yes No ___________________________________________________ Yes No __________________________________________________

( )

35

Yes No Yes No Yes No

Yes No - - Yes No - Yes No ___________________________ - Yes No -- Yes No - Yes No ( _____________)

၁၆ ( )

Yes No

Yes No

36

၁၉

( )

( )

Yes No Yes No

Yes No ____________

( )

Yes No Yes No

( )

37

- 73 ၁ gt gt၁ gt gt၁ gt +

[____ ____ ] ၆

[ ________________________________)

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

73

38

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

၉ cause list

Yes No

39

Yes No Yes No [ ____________________________________________)

၁၁

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

40

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No ___________________________________________

41

__________________________________________

Yes No [ ____________________________________________]

Yes No Yes No _____________________________________________________]

၁၆

Yes No [ ________________________________________________] Yes No [ ___________________________________________] Yes No

42

[ _________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________]

Yes No [ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________]

Yes No ____________________________________ ________________________________________________________

၁၉

Yes No ( ) _______________________________________________ [ ] Yes No [ ___________________________________________]

Yes No -

43

] - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------___________________________]

Yes No ______________________________________________ _________________________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________ ____________________________________________________----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Yes No _________________________________

44

( ) ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ Yes No

________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________

( )

Yes No __________________________________________________ Yes No -

Yes No _________________________________________________ ___________________

45

_________________________________________

Yes No ___________________________ ______________________

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No

46

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

47

Framing of the charges

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Final Argument

Yes No Yes No

ဍ Yes No

48

Yes No

Yes No Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Comments

49

- 1 2

3

4 5 a b c 6

7

8

[_______________________________]

9

10

Yes No

11

[ ________________________________)

12

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___]

50

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

13

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

14

[ _______________________________________]

1 cause list Yes

51

5

No

16

Yes No Yes No __________________________________________]

17

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

19

Yes No

20

Page 32: JUSTICE BASE - Progressive Voice...Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal 5 (2000), at pg. 25. 14 Nick Cheesman “Thin Rule of Law or Un-Rule of Law in Myanmar?”(2010) 82(4) Pacific

22

-

-

64

( )

64 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at [28]

23

( )

65

-

rdquo

rdquo

rdquo 65

24

rdquo

rdquo

( )

(

( ) )

(

)

( )

25

66

(

) 67

68

66 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at para 29 (ldquo rdquo)

67 68 Christina Fink Living Silence in Burma (2nd ed Zed Books London 2009) at 134 as cited in

Fortify Rights ldquoMidnight Intrusion Ending Guest Registration and Household Inspections in

Myanmarrdquo (March 2015) Fortify Rights ltwwwfortifyrightsorggt at 12

26

၁၁

N k 69

-

-

( )

rdquo70

71

(

)

69 Cheesman above n 2 at 101 70 Cheesman n 2 at 117 71 See Part II subpart B above

27

Justice Base

customer

service trainings

Justice Base

( -၁)

၁၉( ) ၁

( )

28

( (၁) )

( - ) (၁)

( )

( - )

( - )

(

)

29

( - )

( )

( -၁)

( - )

( - )

30

31

( )

-

-

-

32

-

-

---------------------------- _________________________

33

( )

- 72 ၁

( )

( )

___________________________________________________________

( )

__________________________________________________ ( )

Yes No ( ______________________________________)

Yes No ___________________________________________________________

Yes No ( ________________________________________)

72

34

၁၁

____________________________________________________ Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No _________________ - Yes No - Yes No - ________________ Yes No ________________ - Yes No

( ______________________________________) ______ _______________________________ Yes No ___________________________________________________ Yes No __________________________________________________

( )

35

Yes No Yes No Yes No

Yes No - - Yes No - Yes No ___________________________ - Yes No -- Yes No - Yes No ( _____________)

၁၆ ( )

Yes No

Yes No

36

၁၉

( )

( )

Yes No Yes No

Yes No ____________

( )

Yes No Yes No

( )

37

- 73 ၁ gt gt၁ gt gt၁ gt +

[____ ____ ] ၆

[ ________________________________)

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

73

38

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

၉ cause list

Yes No

39

Yes No Yes No [ ____________________________________________)

၁၁

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

40

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No ___________________________________________

41

__________________________________________

Yes No [ ____________________________________________]

Yes No Yes No _____________________________________________________]

၁၆

Yes No [ ________________________________________________] Yes No [ ___________________________________________] Yes No

42

[ _________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________]

Yes No [ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________]

Yes No ____________________________________ ________________________________________________________

၁၉

Yes No ( ) _______________________________________________ [ ] Yes No [ ___________________________________________]

Yes No -

43

] - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------___________________________]

Yes No ______________________________________________ _________________________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________ ____________________________________________________----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Yes No _________________________________

44

( ) ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ Yes No

________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________

( )

Yes No __________________________________________________ Yes No -

Yes No _________________________________________________ ___________________

45

_________________________________________

Yes No ___________________________ ______________________

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No

46

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

47

Framing of the charges

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Final Argument

Yes No Yes No

ဍ Yes No

48

Yes No

Yes No Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Comments

49

- 1 2

3

4 5 a b c 6

7

8

[_______________________________]

9

10

Yes No

11

[ ________________________________)

12

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___]

50

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

13

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

14

[ _______________________________________]

1 cause list Yes

51

5

No

16

Yes No Yes No __________________________________________]

17

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

19

Yes No

20

Page 33: JUSTICE BASE - Progressive Voice...Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal 5 (2000), at pg. 25. 14 Nick Cheesman “Thin Rule of Law or Un-Rule of Law in Myanmar?”(2010) 82(4) Pacific

23

( )

65

-

rdquo

rdquo

rdquo 65

24

rdquo

rdquo

( )

(

( ) )

(

)

( )

25

66

(

) 67

68

66 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at para 29 (ldquo rdquo)

67 68 Christina Fink Living Silence in Burma (2nd ed Zed Books London 2009) at 134 as cited in

Fortify Rights ldquoMidnight Intrusion Ending Guest Registration and Household Inspections in

Myanmarrdquo (March 2015) Fortify Rights ltwwwfortifyrightsorggt at 12

26

၁၁

N k 69

-

-

( )

rdquo70

71

(

)

69 Cheesman above n 2 at 101 70 Cheesman n 2 at 117 71 See Part II subpart B above

27

Justice Base

customer

service trainings

Justice Base

( -၁)

၁၉( ) ၁

( )

28

( (၁) )

( - ) (၁)

( )

( - )

( - )

(

)

29

( - )

( )

( -၁)

( - )

( - )

30

31

( )

-

-

-

32

-

-

---------------------------- _________________________

33

( )

- 72 ၁

( )

( )

___________________________________________________________

( )

__________________________________________________ ( )

Yes No ( ______________________________________)

Yes No ___________________________________________________________

Yes No ( ________________________________________)

72

34

၁၁

____________________________________________________ Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No _________________ - Yes No - Yes No - ________________ Yes No ________________ - Yes No

( ______________________________________) ______ _______________________________ Yes No ___________________________________________________ Yes No __________________________________________________

( )

35

Yes No Yes No Yes No

Yes No - - Yes No - Yes No ___________________________ - Yes No -- Yes No - Yes No ( _____________)

၁၆ ( )

Yes No

Yes No

36

၁၉

( )

( )

Yes No Yes No

Yes No ____________

( )

Yes No Yes No

( )

37

- 73 ၁ gt gt၁ gt gt၁ gt +

[____ ____ ] ၆

[ ________________________________)

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

73

38

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

၉ cause list

Yes No

39

Yes No Yes No [ ____________________________________________)

၁၁

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

40

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No ___________________________________________

41

__________________________________________

Yes No [ ____________________________________________]

Yes No Yes No _____________________________________________________]

၁၆

Yes No [ ________________________________________________] Yes No [ ___________________________________________] Yes No

42

[ _________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________]

Yes No [ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________]

Yes No ____________________________________ ________________________________________________________

၁၉

Yes No ( ) _______________________________________________ [ ] Yes No [ ___________________________________________]

Yes No -

43

] - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------___________________________]

Yes No ______________________________________________ _________________________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________ ____________________________________________________----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Yes No _________________________________

44

( ) ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ Yes No

________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________

( )

Yes No __________________________________________________ Yes No -

Yes No _________________________________________________ ___________________

45

_________________________________________

Yes No ___________________________ ______________________

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No

46

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

47

Framing of the charges

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Final Argument

Yes No Yes No

ဍ Yes No

48

Yes No

Yes No Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Comments

49

- 1 2

3

4 5 a b c 6

7

8

[_______________________________]

9

10

Yes No

11

[ ________________________________)

12

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___]

50

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

13

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

14

[ _______________________________________]

1 cause list Yes

51

5

No

16

Yes No Yes No __________________________________________]

17

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

19

Yes No

20

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24

rdquo

rdquo

( )

(

( ) )

(

)

( )

25

66

(

) 67

68

66 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at para 29 (ldquo rdquo)

67 68 Christina Fink Living Silence in Burma (2nd ed Zed Books London 2009) at 134 as cited in

Fortify Rights ldquoMidnight Intrusion Ending Guest Registration and Household Inspections in

Myanmarrdquo (March 2015) Fortify Rights ltwwwfortifyrightsorggt at 12

26

၁၁

N k 69

-

-

( )

rdquo70

71

(

)

69 Cheesman above n 2 at 101 70 Cheesman n 2 at 117 71 See Part II subpart B above

27

Justice Base

customer

service trainings

Justice Base

( -၁)

၁၉( ) ၁

( )

28

( (၁) )

( - ) (၁)

( )

( - )

( - )

(

)

29

( - )

( )

( -၁)

( - )

( - )

30

31

( )

-

-

-

32

-

-

---------------------------- _________________________

33

( )

- 72 ၁

( )

( )

___________________________________________________________

( )

__________________________________________________ ( )

Yes No ( ______________________________________)

Yes No ___________________________________________________________

Yes No ( ________________________________________)

72

34

၁၁

____________________________________________________ Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No _________________ - Yes No - Yes No - ________________ Yes No ________________ - Yes No

( ______________________________________) ______ _______________________________ Yes No ___________________________________________________ Yes No __________________________________________________

( )

35

Yes No Yes No Yes No

Yes No - - Yes No - Yes No ___________________________ - Yes No -- Yes No - Yes No ( _____________)

၁၆ ( )

Yes No

Yes No

36

၁၉

( )

( )

Yes No Yes No

Yes No ____________

( )

Yes No Yes No

( )

37

- 73 ၁ gt gt၁ gt gt၁ gt +

[____ ____ ] ၆

[ ________________________________)

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

73

38

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

၉ cause list

Yes No

39

Yes No Yes No [ ____________________________________________)

၁၁

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

40

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No ___________________________________________

41

__________________________________________

Yes No [ ____________________________________________]

Yes No Yes No _____________________________________________________]

၁၆

Yes No [ ________________________________________________] Yes No [ ___________________________________________] Yes No

42

[ _________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________]

Yes No [ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________]

Yes No ____________________________________ ________________________________________________________

၁၉

Yes No ( ) _______________________________________________ [ ] Yes No [ ___________________________________________]

Yes No -

43

] - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------___________________________]

Yes No ______________________________________________ _________________________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________ ____________________________________________________----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Yes No _________________________________

44

( ) ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ Yes No

________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________

( )

Yes No __________________________________________________ Yes No -

Yes No _________________________________________________ ___________________

45

_________________________________________

Yes No ___________________________ ______________________

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No

46

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

47

Framing of the charges

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Final Argument

Yes No Yes No

ဍ Yes No

48

Yes No

Yes No Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Comments

49

- 1 2

3

4 5 a b c 6

7

8

[_______________________________]

9

10

Yes No

11

[ ________________________________)

12

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___]

50

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

13

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

14

[ _______________________________________]

1 cause list Yes

51

5

No

16

Yes No Yes No __________________________________________]

17

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

19

Yes No

20

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25

66

(

) 67

68

66 Human Rights Committee above n 27 at para 29 (ldquo rdquo)

67 68 Christina Fink Living Silence in Burma (2nd ed Zed Books London 2009) at 134 as cited in

Fortify Rights ldquoMidnight Intrusion Ending Guest Registration and Household Inspections in

Myanmarrdquo (March 2015) Fortify Rights ltwwwfortifyrightsorggt at 12

26

၁၁

N k 69

-

-

( )

rdquo70

71

(

)

69 Cheesman above n 2 at 101 70 Cheesman n 2 at 117 71 See Part II subpart B above

27

Justice Base

customer

service trainings

Justice Base

( -၁)

၁၉( ) ၁

( )

28

( (၁) )

( - ) (၁)

( )

( - )

( - )

(

)

29

( - )

( )

( -၁)

( - )

( - )

30

31

( )

-

-

-

32

-

-

---------------------------- _________________________

33

( )

- 72 ၁

( )

( )

___________________________________________________________

( )

__________________________________________________ ( )

Yes No ( ______________________________________)

Yes No ___________________________________________________________

Yes No ( ________________________________________)

72

34

၁၁

____________________________________________________ Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No _________________ - Yes No - Yes No - ________________ Yes No ________________ - Yes No

( ______________________________________) ______ _______________________________ Yes No ___________________________________________________ Yes No __________________________________________________

( )

35

Yes No Yes No Yes No

Yes No - - Yes No - Yes No ___________________________ - Yes No -- Yes No - Yes No ( _____________)

၁၆ ( )

Yes No

Yes No

36

၁၉

( )

( )

Yes No Yes No

Yes No ____________

( )

Yes No Yes No

( )

37

- 73 ၁ gt gt၁ gt gt၁ gt +

[____ ____ ] ၆

[ ________________________________)

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

73

38

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

၉ cause list

Yes No

39

Yes No Yes No [ ____________________________________________)

၁၁

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

40

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No ___________________________________________

41

__________________________________________

Yes No [ ____________________________________________]

Yes No Yes No _____________________________________________________]

၁၆

Yes No [ ________________________________________________] Yes No [ ___________________________________________] Yes No

42

[ _________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________]

Yes No [ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________]

Yes No ____________________________________ ________________________________________________________

၁၉

Yes No ( ) _______________________________________________ [ ] Yes No [ ___________________________________________]

Yes No -

43

] - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------___________________________]

Yes No ______________________________________________ _________________________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________ ____________________________________________________----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Yes No _________________________________

44

( ) ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ Yes No

________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________

( )

Yes No __________________________________________________ Yes No -

Yes No _________________________________________________ ___________________

45

_________________________________________

Yes No ___________________________ ______________________

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No

46

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

47

Framing of the charges

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Final Argument

Yes No Yes No

ဍ Yes No

48

Yes No

Yes No Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Comments

49

- 1 2

3

4 5 a b c 6

7

8

[_______________________________]

9

10

Yes No

11

[ ________________________________)

12

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___]

50

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

13

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

14

[ _______________________________________]

1 cause list Yes

51

5

No

16

Yes No Yes No __________________________________________]

17

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

19

Yes No

20

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26

၁၁

N k 69

-

-

( )

rdquo70

71

(

)

69 Cheesman above n 2 at 101 70 Cheesman n 2 at 117 71 See Part II subpart B above

27

Justice Base

customer

service trainings

Justice Base

( -၁)

၁၉( ) ၁

( )

28

( (၁) )

( - ) (၁)

( )

( - )

( - )

(

)

29

( - )

( )

( -၁)

( - )

( - )

30

31

( )

-

-

-

32

-

-

---------------------------- _________________________

33

( )

- 72 ၁

( )

( )

___________________________________________________________

( )

__________________________________________________ ( )

Yes No ( ______________________________________)

Yes No ___________________________________________________________

Yes No ( ________________________________________)

72

34

၁၁

____________________________________________________ Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No _________________ - Yes No - Yes No - ________________ Yes No ________________ - Yes No

( ______________________________________) ______ _______________________________ Yes No ___________________________________________________ Yes No __________________________________________________

( )

35

Yes No Yes No Yes No

Yes No - - Yes No - Yes No ___________________________ - Yes No -- Yes No - Yes No ( _____________)

၁၆ ( )

Yes No

Yes No

36

၁၉

( )

( )

Yes No Yes No

Yes No ____________

( )

Yes No Yes No

( )

37

- 73 ၁ gt gt၁ gt gt၁ gt +

[____ ____ ] ၆

[ ________________________________)

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

73

38

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

၉ cause list

Yes No

39

Yes No Yes No [ ____________________________________________)

၁၁

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

40

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No ___________________________________________

41

__________________________________________

Yes No [ ____________________________________________]

Yes No Yes No _____________________________________________________]

၁၆

Yes No [ ________________________________________________] Yes No [ ___________________________________________] Yes No

42

[ _________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________]

Yes No [ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________]

Yes No ____________________________________ ________________________________________________________

၁၉

Yes No ( ) _______________________________________________ [ ] Yes No [ ___________________________________________]

Yes No -

43

] - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------___________________________]

Yes No ______________________________________________ _________________________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________ ____________________________________________________----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Yes No _________________________________

44

( ) ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ Yes No

________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________

( )

Yes No __________________________________________________ Yes No -

Yes No _________________________________________________ ___________________

45

_________________________________________

Yes No ___________________________ ______________________

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No

46

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

47

Framing of the charges

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Final Argument

Yes No Yes No

ဍ Yes No

48

Yes No

Yes No Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Comments

49

- 1 2

3

4 5 a b c 6

7

8

[_______________________________]

9

10

Yes No

11

[ ________________________________)

12

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___]

50

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

13

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

14

[ _______________________________________]

1 cause list Yes

51

5

No

16

Yes No Yes No __________________________________________]

17

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

19

Yes No

20

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27

Justice Base

customer

service trainings

Justice Base

( -၁)

၁၉( ) ၁

( )

28

( (၁) )

( - ) (၁)

( )

( - )

( - )

(

)

29

( - )

( )

( -၁)

( - )

( - )

30

31

( )

-

-

-

32

-

-

---------------------------- _________________________

33

( )

- 72 ၁

( )

( )

___________________________________________________________

( )

__________________________________________________ ( )

Yes No ( ______________________________________)

Yes No ___________________________________________________________

Yes No ( ________________________________________)

72

34

၁၁

____________________________________________________ Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No _________________ - Yes No - Yes No - ________________ Yes No ________________ - Yes No

( ______________________________________) ______ _______________________________ Yes No ___________________________________________________ Yes No __________________________________________________

( )

35

Yes No Yes No Yes No

Yes No - - Yes No - Yes No ___________________________ - Yes No -- Yes No - Yes No ( _____________)

၁၆ ( )

Yes No

Yes No

36

၁၉

( )

( )

Yes No Yes No

Yes No ____________

( )

Yes No Yes No

( )

37

- 73 ၁ gt gt၁ gt gt၁ gt +

[____ ____ ] ၆

[ ________________________________)

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

73

38

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

၉ cause list

Yes No

39

Yes No Yes No [ ____________________________________________)

၁၁

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

40

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No ___________________________________________

41

__________________________________________

Yes No [ ____________________________________________]

Yes No Yes No _____________________________________________________]

၁၆

Yes No [ ________________________________________________] Yes No [ ___________________________________________] Yes No

42

[ _________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________]

Yes No [ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________]

Yes No ____________________________________ ________________________________________________________

၁၉

Yes No ( ) _______________________________________________ [ ] Yes No [ ___________________________________________]

Yes No -

43

] - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------___________________________]

Yes No ______________________________________________ _________________________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________ ____________________________________________________----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Yes No _________________________________

44

( ) ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ Yes No

________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________

( )

Yes No __________________________________________________ Yes No -

Yes No _________________________________________________ ___________________

45

_________________________________________

Yes No ___________________________ ______________________

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No

46

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

47

Framing of the charges

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Final Argument

Yes No Yes No

ဍ Yes No

48

Yes No

Yes No Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Comments

49

- 1 2

3

4 5 a b c 6

7

8

[_______________________________]

9

10

Yes No

11

[ ________________________________)

12

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___]

50

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

13

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

14

[ _______________________________________]

1 cause list Yes

51

5

No

16

Yes No Yes No __________________________________________]

17

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

19

Yes No

20

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28

( (၁) )

( - ) (၁)

( )

( - )

( - )

(

)

29

( - )

( )

( -၁)

( - )

( - )

30

31

( )

-

-

-

32

-

-

---------------------------- _________________________

33

( )

- 72 ၁

( )

( )

___________________________________________________________

( )

__________________________________________________ ( )

Yes No ( ______________________________________)

Yes No ___________________________________________________________

Yes No ( ________________________________________)

72

34

၁၁

____________________________________________________ Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No _________________ - Yes No - Yes No - ________________ Yes No ________________ - Yes No

( ______________________________________) ______ _______________________________ Yes No ___________________________________________________ Yes No __________________________________________________

( )

35

Yes No Yes No Yes No

Yes No - - Yes No - Yes No ___________________________ - Yes No -- Yes No - Yes No ( _____________)

၁၆ ( )

Yes No

Yes No

36

၁၉

( )

( )

Yes No Yes No

Yes No ____________

( )

Yes No Yes No

( )

37

- 73 ၁ gt gt၁ gt gt၁ gt +

[____ ____ ] ၆

[ ________________________________)

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

73

38

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

၉ cause list

Yes No

39

Yes No Yes No [ ____________________________________________)

၁၁

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

40

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No ___________________________________________

41

__________________________________________

Yes No [ ____________________________________________]

Yes No Yes No _____________________________________________________]

၁၆

Yes No [ ________________________________________________] Yes No [ ___________________________________________] Yes No

42

[ _________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________]

Yes No [ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________]

Yes No ____________________________________ ________________________________________________________

၁၉

Yes No ( ) _______________________________________________ [ ] Yes No [ ___________________________________________]

Yes No -

43

] - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------___________________________]

Yes No ______________________________________________ _________________________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________ ____________________________________________________----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Yes No _________________________________

44

( ) ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ Yes No

________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________

( )

Yes No __________________________________________________ Yes No -

Yes No _________________________________________________ ___________________

45

_________________________________________

Yes No ___________________________ ______________________

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No

46

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

47

Framing of the charges

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Final Argument

Yes No Yes No

ဍ Yes No

48

Yes No

Yes No Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Comments

49

- 1 2

3

4 5 a b c 6

7

8

[_______________________________]

9

10

Yes No

11

[ ________________________________)

12

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___]

50

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

13

_______________________]_ [ ______________________________________]

14

[ _______________________________________]

1 cause list Yes

51

5

No

16

Yes No Yes No __________________________________________]

17

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

19

Yes No

20

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29

( - )

( )

( -၁)

( - )

( - )

30

31

( )

-

-

-

32

-

-

---------------------------- _________________________

33

( )

- 72 ၁

( )

( )

___________________________________________________________

( )

__________________________________________________ ( )

Yes No ( ______________________________________)

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Yes No

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Yes No ____________

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Yes No Yes No

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[____ ____ ] ၆

[ ________________________________)

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

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၉ cause list

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--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

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Yes No Yes No _____________________________________________________]

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Yes No [ ________________________________________________] Yes No [ ___________________________________________] Yes No

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Yes No ______________________________________________ ____________________________________________________----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Yes No _________________________________

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Yes No _________________________________________________ ___________________

45

_________________________________________

Yes No ___________________________ ______________________

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No

46

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

47

Framing of the charges

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Final Argument

Yes No Yes No

ဍ Yes No

48

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Yes No Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Comments

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Yes No

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Yes No

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Yes No ____________

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Yes No Yes No

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[____ ____ ] ၆

[ ________________________________)

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

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၉ cause list

Yes No

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( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

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Yes No Yes No _____________________________________________________]

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Yes No [ ________________________________________________] Yes No [ ___________________________________________] Yes No

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Yes No __________________________________________________ Yes No -

Yes No _________________________________________________ ___________________

45

_________________________________________

Yes No ___________________________ ______________________

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No

46

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

47

Framing of the charges

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Final Argument

Yes No Yes No

ဍ Yes No

48

Yes No

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Yes No

Yes No

Comments

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Yes No

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Yes No - - Yes No - Yes No ___________________________ - Yes No -- Yes No - Yes No ( _____________)

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Yes No

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( )

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Yes No ____________

( )

Yes No Yes No

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[____ ____ ] ၆

[ ________________________________)

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

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၉ cause list

Yes No

39

Yes No Yes No [ ____________________________________________)

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( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

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Yes No [ ____________________________________________]

Yes No Yes No _____________________________________________________]

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Yes No [ ________________________________________________] Yes No [ ___________________________________________] Yes No

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[ _________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________]

Yes No [ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________]

Yes No ____________________________________ ________________________________________________________

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Yes No _________________________________

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________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________

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Yes No _________________________________________________ ___________________

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_________________________________________

Yes No ___________________________ ______________________

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No

46

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

47

Framing of the charges

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Final Argument

Yes No Yes No

ဍ Yes No

48

Yes No

Yes No Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Comments

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4 5 a b c 6

7

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11

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12

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[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

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1 cause list Yes

51

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No

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17

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

19

Yes No

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Yes No _________________ - Yes No - Yes No - ________________ Yes No ________________ - Yes No

( ______________________________________) ______ _______________________________ Yes No ___________________________________________________ Yes No __________________________________________________

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Yes No Yes No Yes No

Yes No - - Yes No - Yes No ___________________________ - Yes No -- Yes No - Yes No ( _____________)

၁၆ ( )

Yes No

Yes No

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( )

( )

Yes No Yes No

Yes No ____________

( )

Yes No Yes No

( )

37

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[____ ____ ] ၆

[ ________________________________)

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

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38

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၉ cause list

Yes No

39

Yes No Yes No [ ____________________________________________)

၁၁

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

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Yes No [ ____________________________________________]

Yes No Yes No _____________________________________________________]

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Yes No [ ________________________________________________] Yes No [ ___________________________________________] Yes No

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[ _________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________]

Yes No [ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________]

Yes No ____________________________________ ________________________________________________________

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Yes No ( ) _______________________________________________ [ ] Yes No [ ___________________________________________]

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Yes No _________________________________

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________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________

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Yes No __________________________________________________ Yes No -

Yes No _________________________________________________ ___________________

45

_________________________________________

Yes No ___________________________ ______________________

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No

46

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

47

Framing of the charges

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Final Argument

Yes No Yes No

ဍ Yes No

48

Yes No

Yes No Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Comments

49

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3

4 5 a b c 6

7

8

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9

10

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11

[ ________________________________)

12

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___]

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[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

13

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1 cause list Yes

51

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No

16

Yes No Yes No __________________________________________]

17

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

19

Yes No

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Yes No ___________________________________________________________

Yes No ( ________________________________________)

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Yes No _________________ - Yes No - Yes No - ________________ Yes No ________________ - Yes No

( ______________________________________) ______ _______________________________ Yes No ___________________________________________________ Yes No __________________________________________________

( )

35

Yes No Yes No Yes No

Yes No - - Yes No - Yes No ___________________________ - Yes No -- Yes No - Yes No ( _____________)

၁၆ ( )

Yes No

Yes No

36

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( )

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Yes No Yes No

Yes No ____________

( )

Yes No Yes No

( )

37

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[____ ____ ] ၆

[ ________________________________)

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

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38

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၉ cause list

Yes No

39

Yes No Yes No [ ____________________________________________)

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--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

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Yes No ___________________________________________

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Yes No [ ____________________________________________]

Yes No Yes No _____________________________________________________]

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Yes No [ ________________________________________________] Yes No [ ___________________________________________] Yes No

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[ _________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________]

Yes No [ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________]

Yes No ____________________________________ ________________________________________________________

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Yes No ( ) _______________________________________________ [ ] Yes No [ ___________________________________________]

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Yes No _________________________________

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________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________

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Yes No __________________________________________________ Yes No -

Yes No _________________________________________________ ___________________

45

_________________________________________

Yes No ___________________________ ______________________

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No

46

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

47

Framing of the charges

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Final Argument

Yes No Yes No

ဍ Yes No

48

Yes No

Yes No Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Comments

49

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3

4 5 a b c 6

7

8

[_______________________________]

9

10

Yes No

11

[ ________________________________)

12

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___]

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13

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1 cause list Yes

51

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No

16

Yes No Yes No __________________________________________]

17

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

19

Yes No

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( ______________________________________) ______ _______________________________ Yes No ___________________________________________________ Yes No __________________________________________________

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Yes No - - Yes No - Yes No ___________________________ - Yes No -- Yes No - Yes No ( _____________)

၁၆ ( )

Yes No

Yes No

36

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( )

( )

Yes No Yes No

Yes No ____________

( )

Yes No Yes No

( )

37

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[____ ____ ] ၆

[ ________________________________)

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

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၉ cause list

Yes No

39

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၁၁

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--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

40

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Yes No ___________________________________________

41

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Yes No [ ____________________________________________]

Yes No Yes No _____________________________________________________]

၁၆

Yes No [ ________________________________________________] Yes No [ ___________________________________________] Yes No

42

[ _________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________]

Yes No [ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________]

Yes No ____________________________________ ________________________________________________________

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Yes No _________________________________

44

( ) ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ Yes No

________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________

( )

Yes No __________________________________________________ Yes No -

Yes No _________________________________________________ ___________________

45

_________________________________________

Yes No ___________________________ ______________________

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No

46

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

47

Framing of the charges

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Final Argument

Yes No Yes No

ဍ Yes No

48

Yes No

Yes No Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Comments

49

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3

4 5 a b c 6

7

8

[_______________________________]

9

10

Yes No

11

[ ________________________________)

12

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___]

50

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13

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1 cause list Yes

51

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16

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19

Yes No

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Yes No - - Yes No - Yes No ___________________________ - Yes No -- Yes No - Yes No ( _____________)

၁၆ ( )

Yes No

Yes No

36

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( )

( )

Yes No Yes No

Yes No ____________

( )

Yes No Yes No

( )

37

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[____ ____ ] ၆

[ ________________________________)

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

73

38

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၉ cause list

Yes No

39

Yes No Yes No [ ____________________________________________)

၁၁

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

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Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No ___________________________________________

41

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Yes No [ ____________________________________________]

Yes No Yes No _____________________________________________________]

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Yes No [ ________________________________________________] Yes No [ ___________________________________________] Yes No

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[ _________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________]

Yes No [ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________]

Yes No ____________________________________ ________________________________________________________

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Yes No ( ) _______________________________________________ [ ] Yes No [ ___________________________________________]

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Yes No ______________________________________________ ____________________________________________________----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Yes No _________________________________

44

( ) ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ Yes No

________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________

( )

Yes No __________________________________________________ Yes No -

Yes No _________________________________________________ ___________________

45

_________________________________________

Yes No ___________________________ ______________________

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No

46

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

47

Framing of the charges

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Final Argument

Yes No Yes No

ဍ Yes No

48

Yes No

Yes No Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Comments

49

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3

4 5 a b c 6

7

8

[_______________________________]

9

10

Yes No

11

[ ________________________________)

12

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___]

50

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13

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1 cause list Yes

51

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16

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19

Yes No

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Yes No Yes No

Yes No ____________

( )

Yes No Yes No

( )

37

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[____ ____ ] ၆

[ ________________________________)

[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

73

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၉ cause list

Yes No

39

Yes No Yes No [ ____________________________________________)

၁၁

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

--- Yes No [ ______________ __________________________] Yes No [ ______________ __________________________]

40

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No _________________________ __________________________]

Yes No ___________________________________________

41

__________________________________________

Yes No [ ____________________________________________]

Yes No Yes No _____________________________________________________]

၁၆

Yes No [ ________________________________________________] Yes No [ ___________________________________________] Yes No

42

[ _________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________]

Yes No [ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________]

Yes No ____________________________________ ________________________________________________________

၁၉

Yes No ( ) _______________________________________________ [ ] Yes No [ ___________________________________________]

Yes No -

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Yes No ______________________________________________ ____________________________________________________----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Yes No _________________________________

44

( ) ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ Yes No

________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________

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Yes No __________________________________________________ Yes No -

Yes No _________________________________________________ ___________________

45

_________________________________________

Yes No ___________________________ ______________________

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No

46

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

47

Framing of the charges

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Final Argument

Yes No Yes No

ဍ Yes No

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Yes No

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Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

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Yes No

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Yes No ______________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

47

Framing of the charges

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Final Argument

Yes No Yes No

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Yes No

Yes No

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Yes No Yes No [ ____________________________________________)

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Yes No ___________________________ ______________________

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No

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Yes No ______________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

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Framing of the charges

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Final Argument

Yes No Yes No

ဍ Yes No

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Yes No

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Yes No

Yes No

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Yes No ___________________________ ______________________

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No

46

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Yes No ______________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

47

Framing of the charges

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Final Argument

Yes No Yes No

ဍ Yes No

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Yes No

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Yes No

Yes No

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_________________________________________

Yes No ___________________________ ______________________

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No

46

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

47

Framing of the charges

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Final Argument

Yes No Yes No

ဍ Yes No

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Yes No

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Yes No

Yes No

Comments

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Yes No _________________________________________________ ___________________

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_________________________________________

Yes No ___________________________ ______________________

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No

46

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

47

Framing of the charges

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Final Argument

Yes No Yes No

ဍ Yes No

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Yes No

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Yes No

Yes No

Comments

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51

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Yes No _________________________________________________ ___________________

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_________________________________________

Yes No ___________________________ ______________________

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No

46

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

47

Framing of the charges

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Final Argument

Yes No Yes No

ဍ Yes No

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Yes No

Yes No Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Comments

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1 cause list Yes

51

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( ) ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ Yes No

________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________

( )

Yes No __________________________________________________ Yes No -

Yes No _________________________________________________ ___________________

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_________________________________________

Yes No ___________________________ ______________________

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No

46

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

47

Framing of the charges

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Final Argument

Yes No Yes No

ဍ Yes No

48

Yes No

Yes No Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Comments

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4 5 a b c 6

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9

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1 cause list Yes

51

5

No

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19

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_________________________________________

Yes No ___________________________ ______________________

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No

46

Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

47

Framing of the charges

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Final Argument

Yes No Yes No

ဍ Yes No

48

Yes No

Yes No Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Comments

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No

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19

Yes No

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Yes No _______________________________________________

Yes No ______________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

47

Framing of the charges

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Final Argument

Yes No Yes No

ဍ Yes No

48

Yes No

Yes No Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Comments

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19

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Framing of the charges

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Final Argument

Yes No Yes No

ဍ Yes No

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Yes No

Yes No Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

Comments

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4 5 a b c 6

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No

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Yes No

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Yes No

Yes No Yes No ________________________________________________________

Yes No

Yes No

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17

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19

Yes No

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17

( ) [ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________]

19

Yes No

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[___] [___] [___] [___] [___] ( Yes No ) [___] [___] [___] [___________________________________________________]

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1 cause list Yes

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No

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19

Yes No

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19

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