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The
Court
of
Appeal
has
given
reasons
for
delegating
the
hearing
of
the
witnesses
to
the
investigating
judge
.
The
weight
which
the
minority
of
the
Commission
laid
on
the
fact
that
the
Court
of
Appeal
,
being
the
trial
court
,
did
not
avail
itself
of
the
possibility
to
assess
for
itself
the
reliability
of
the
witnesses
,
is
in
my
opinion
not
conclusive
;
there
is
no
good
reason
why
the
court
could
not
rely
for
this
on
the
assessment
of
the
equally
independent
and
impartial
investigating
judge
.
In
that
respect
,
it
is
also
of
relevance
that
the
interrogations
before
the
investigating
judge
did
not
take
place
in
a
pre
-
trial
phase
but
during
a
suspension
of
the
trial
before
the
Court
of
Appeal
and
pursuant
to
an
order
of
the
Court
of
Appeal
;
they
formed
part
of
the
trial
.
In
the
Kostovski
case
,
where
the
Court
emphasised
the
importance
of
the
possibility
for
the
trial
judge
to
observe
the
witness
,
only
one
of
the
witnesses
was
heard
by
a
judge
,
who
was
,
however
,
unaware
of
the
identity
of
the
person
concerned
(
loc
.
cit
.
,
p.
21
,
para
.
43
)
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