The course of the trial shall follow the order specified in the Code, but due to specificcircumstances, in particular the number of defendants, number of criminal offences andvolume of evidence, the chamber may order deviations from the regular course of thetrial.Article 298(1) The court is required to protect its reputation, the reputations of the parties and otherparticipants in the proceedings from insults, threats and any other form of attack.(2) The president of the chamber is responsible for maintaining law and order in thecourtroom. The president may order persons attending the trial to be searched, and shallimmediately after the opening of the hearing caution those present to behave in anorderly manner and to refrain from obstructing the work of the court.(3) The chamber may order that all persons attending the trial as viewers be removedfrom the hearing if the measures for maintaining law and ordered provided in this Codecould not ensure the unobstructed conduct of the trial.Article 299(1) Where the defendant, defence counsel, the aggrieved, legal representative, proxy,witness, expert witness, interpreter or other person attending the trial disturbs the workand dignity of the court, or disobeys orders of the president of the chamber to keep theorder, the president of the chamber may caution that person, order that person removedfrom the courtroom, or impose a fine of up to 500.000 RSD on that person.(2) Where a person referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article, except the defendant anddefence counsel, continues to disturb order or disobey orders of the president of thechamber for maintenance of law and order by exhibiting gross disrespect for the courtand seriously disrupting the trial, after being pronounced the sanctions referred to inparagraph 1 of this Article, the president of the chamber shall make a special record inwhich he shall enter the statements made by that person and a description of hisbehaviour, which he shall together with a copy of the record of the trial, if needed alsowith a copy of the other documentation, communicate to the president of the court. Thepresident of the court may within 15 days issue a ruling imposing on the person referredto in paragraph 1 of this Article a fine of up to 500.000 RSD, or a term of imprisonment ofup to 15 days, or both penalties.(3) Appeals against the ruling on punishment referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 of thisArticle may be filed with the chamber referred to in Article 24 paragraph 6 of this Code.Appeals do not stay execution of rulings, nor shall represent a reason for adjourning orpostponing the trial. The president of the chamber, or the president of the court, shallsubmit the copy of the trial record, and if needed also copies of other documentation, tothe chamber ruling on the appeal.(4) By exception, the chamber may repeal the ruling on punishment referred to inparagraph 1 of this Article if the person punished apologises to the court and promises toabstain from violating law and order in the courtroom in the future.
(5) Other decisions in connection with the maintenance of order and conduct of the trialare not appealable.(6) The punishment referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article does not excludecriminal prosecution of the person punished, if his action also represented a criminaloffence, in which case Article 301 of this Code shall be applied.(7) If the defendant has been removed from the courtroom, the president of the chambershall order him returned immediately after the conclusion of the action during which hewas removed. If the defendant continues to disturb the order in the courtroom, thechamber shall issue a ruling on his removal for a certain period of time, and where thedefendant has already been questioned at the trial, removal for the entire duration of theevidentiary proceedings. Before the conclusion of the evidentiary proceedings, thepresident of the chamber shall secure the presence of the defendant, notify thedefendant about the course of the trial, inform him about the testimonies of criminaloffence-defendants previously questioned, or make it possible for the defendant to readthe records of such testimony, if so desired by the defendant, and ask to defendant todeclare himself on the charges, if he has not done so earlier. Defendants who continueto disturb the order and violate the dignity of the court may again be removed from thehearing by the chamber, in which case the trial shall be concluded without theirpresence, and their judgements shall be communicated to them by the president of thechamber or a judge-member of the chamber, in the presence of the recorder.(8) Defence counsel or proxies who continue to disturb the order after being punishedmay be denied the right to defend or represent their clients at the trial, in which case theparty shall be invited to retain another defence counsel or proxy. Where a defendantwho has not yet been questioned is not able to do so, or in the case of mandatorydefence, the court cannot appoint a new defence counsel without harming the defence,and the trial shall be recessed or adjourned, and defence counsel shall be obliged tobear the costs of such recess or adjournment. Where a private prosecutor or asubsidiary prosecutor do not obtain a new proxy, the chamber may decide that he thetrial shall be continued without proxies, if it finds that their presence would not damagethe interests of the parties they represented, and if a hearing is recessed or adjournedwhere it cannot be continued without proxies being present, the proxies shall be obligedto bear the costs of such recess or adjournment. Rulings thereon, with substantiation,shall be attached to the trial record. These rulings are not appealable.(9) Where the court removes from the courtroom a subsidiary prosecutor or privateprosecutor or their legal representatives, the trial shall continue in their absence.(10) Where a public prosecutor or person deputising for the public prosecutor disturbsthe order, violates the dignity of the court or disobeys order issued by the president ofthe chamber on the maintenance of law and order, the president of the chamber shallcaution him, enter the caution in the trial record and notify thereof the competent publicprosecutor and immediately higher public prosecutor. The president of the chamber mayalso adjourn the trial and ask the competent public prosecutor to designate anotherperson to represent the prosecution.(11) When the president of the chamber or the chamber punishes a lawyer or traineelawyer disturbing the order, violating the dignity of the court or disobeying orders issued
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