1.   In each case, judges ruled that letting the other side get access to the databases would speed the trial, saving time and money for all concerned.

2.   It is aimed at speeding up trials that in Italy can drag on for years.

3.   Lockhart said the White House was willing to forego witnesses to speed the trial to a conclusion.

4.   Other proposals to speed up trials, she said, include cutting back the number of witnesses and the counts of crime.

5.   A third courtroom will be added to the Tanzania-based tribunal to speed trials.

6.   In hopes of speeding up trials and promoting reconciliation, Rwandan genocide law allows for leniency and reduced prison sentences for those suspects who confess to killings.

7.   In related events Friday, two Tupac Amaru members jailed in Bolivia declared a hunger strike to demand that their trial be speeded up, the Bolivian government said.

8.   In other news Friday, two Tupac Amaru members jailed in Bolivia declared a hunger strike to demand that their trial be speeded up, the Bolivian government said.

9.   Nopadol urged the courts to speed up trials which involve drugs and proposed defendants not be granted bail.

10.   On Thursday, the Security Council approved a third courtroom in an effort to speed up trials.