Scope and Limits of Psychiatric Evidence in International Criminal Law

Dragana Spencer
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This contribution examines the role of the mental health sector evidence in international crimes prosecutions. Specifically, recent trials are examined with a view to assess the scope and limits of psychiatric evidence in relation to war crimes defences. Scrutinizing fully the origins and triggers of individual criminal responsibility, serves the interests of justice and enhances trial rights. This study also tries to illustrate the undesirable but extensive use of hearsay evidence in international criminal courts and the ways in which psychiatric evidence is used frequently to validate inconsistent testimonies and hearsay accounts of presumed victims and witnesses but not to enable defendants to form defences. The chapter concludes that defence trial rights would be better protected if relevant legal lacunae and ambiguities regarding the admissibility of psychiatric evidence are clarified and if the amount of such evidence required to satisfy certain defences, such as duress, is quantified with greater specificity.
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国际刑法中精神病学证据的范围与限制
本报告探讨了精神卫生部门证据在国际犯罪起诉中的作用。具体而言,审查最近的审判是为了评估与战争罪辩护有关的精神病学证据的范围和限度。充分审查个人刑事责任的渊源和诱因,有利于维护司法公正,增进审判权。本研究还试图说明在国际刑事法院中不受欢迎但广泛使用传闻证据的情况,以及经常使用精神病学证据来验证不一致的证词和对假定受害者和证人的传闻陈述,而不是使被告能够形成辩护的方式。本章的结论是,如果澄清关于精神病学证据可接受性的相关法律空白和含糊之处,并且如果更具体地量化满足某些辩护(如胁迫)所需的这种证据的数量,则辩护审判权将得到更好的保护。
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