Following the completion of the testimony of the Defence witness Safet Gashi, the trial in the case of P. Shala adjourned for today and for the week, so the hearings scheduled for tomorrow and the day after (11 and 12 January) are cancelled. The next scheduled hearings are on 19 and 22 January but the Panel will confirm in due course whether they will be held or not.
During today’s hearing, the Panel issued a number of oral orders, one of which was in relation to the Defence’s request to add an expert witness (psychologist) and her expert report to its list of witnesses and exhibits as well as to call her to testify in person on 19 January. The Panel today granted the request in part and ordered that the witness and the report (which the Panel found relevant for the purposes of sentencing) be added to the Defence lists of witnesses and evidence. The Panel however rejected the part of the Defence’s request for this testimony in court.