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Special Report
Transcripts for Section 5 of Episode 37

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13:31An Amnesty Committee hearing is a legal process, but it is not a court of law. The hoards of attorneys and advocates who have now descended upon this process to represent any kind of applicant or implied person or vaguely mentioned police general seemed to disregard this fact. Most of the time at this week’s hearing was spent on endless arguing and bickering among lawyers and advocates, most of them paid by the taxpayer.Full Transcript
13:58For record purposes my name is LGL Visser… // I only act for Gen Smit so I can only speak on his behalf… // So presently we act for 81 applicants… // Want to place this simply on record…want to place on record now …. I want to place that on record now… but what I want to do is I want to place this on record… // That is correct and I would certainly do so, my learned friend, have a look to mention that he’d given a similar undertaking. // Right now I’m not interested in that debate; I want to know whether that can be done as soon as possible. // I think that the distinction is more apparent than real. // My submission is that that also entails the right of the applicants, representatives to cross examine. // If there was a substantial dispute of fact he would not be entitled to put up an affidavit from his client. // Those persons aren’t here, we cannot cross examine them, but he has the right to cross examine the applicant. // You will have the right also to cross ...moreFull Transcript
 
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