S.L. 220.4 ст. 89Record of proceedings.

(1) The proceedings of general and district courts-martial shall be recorded in accordance with the following provisions:

(a) the proceedings of a court-martial shall be recorded in accordance with the appropriate form set out in the Fourth Schedule and in sufficient detail to enable the confirming officer to follow the course of proceedings and to judge of the merits of the case;

(b) when there is a shorthand writer present the evidence should be taken down in narrative form as nearly as possible in the words used: Provided that if the court, judge advocate, prosecutor or accused consider it necessary, any particular question and answer shall be taken down verbatim;

(c) when an objection, submission or application is made during a trial at which there is no shorthand writer, a record shall be made of the proceedings relating to such objection, submission or application if and in such detail as the court or judge advocate thinks fit: Provided that if the prosecutor or accused so requests a note shall be made of the objection, submission or application, the grounds therefore, the advice of the judge advocate (if any) thereon and the decision of the court;

(d) when any address by the prosecutor or the accused or summing up of the judge advocate is not in writing and there is no shorthand writer present, it shall only be necessary to record so much of such address or summing up as the court or advocate thinks proper: Provided that if the prosecutor or accused so requests a note shall be made of any particular point in such address or summing up;

(e) there shall not be recorded in the record of proceedings any matter not forming part of the trial; but if any comment or report seems to the court to be necessary, the president may forward it to the proper military authority in a separate document.

(2) The proceedings of a field general court-martial shall so far as practicable be recorded in accordance with the provisions of sub-rule (1) and the record must in any event contain the names of the president and members constituting the court and the judge advocate (if any), the name and description of the accused, the charge-sheet, all pleas, a brief summary of the evidence and the finding and sentence.