THE PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL

Before: President Gabrielle Kirk McDonald

Registrar: Mrs. Dorothee de Sampayo Garrido-Nijgh

Order of: 1 July 1999

 

THE PROSECUTOR

v.

ZLATKO ALEKSOVSKI

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ORDER OF THE PRESIDENT
FOR THE ASSIGNMENT OF A JUDGE
TO THE APPEALS CHAMBER

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The Office of the Prosecutor

Mr. Upawansa Yapa
Mr. Norman Farrell
Mr. Anura Meddegoda
Mr. Dan Saxon
Ms. Adele Erasmus

Defence Counsel

Mr. Srdjan Joka

 

I, Gabrielle Kirk McDonald, President of the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991 ("International Tribunal");

NOTING the Judgement in Case IT-95-14/1-T, The Prosecutor v. Zlatko Aleksovski, rendered by Trial Chamber I on 7 May 1999;

NOTING the "Defendant’s Notice of Appeal Pursuant to Rule 108", filed by Zlatko Aleksovski on 17 May 1999, and the "Prosecution’s Notice of Appeal", filed by the Office of the Prosecutor on 19 May 1999 (together "Appeal");

NOTING my previous order for the assignment of Judges to the Appeals Chamber for the purpose of deciding the Appeal, issued on 11 June 1999;

CONSIDERING that Judge Mohamed Shahabuddeen has withdrawn from hearing the Appeal pursuant to Rule 15 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Tribunal ("Rules");

CONSIDERING Article 14(3) of the Statute of the International Tribunal and Rule 27(C) of the Rules;

HAVING CONSULTED the Judges of the International Tribunal;

HEREBY DECIDE to assign Judge Patrick Robinson to the Appeals Chamber for the purpose of deciding the Appeal;

The Appeals Chamber in case IT-95-14/1-A, The Prosecutor v. Zlatko Aleksovski, will then be composed as follows:

Judge Richard George May

Judge Wang Tieya

Judge Florence Ndepele Mwachande Mumba

Judge David Hunt

Judge Patrick Robinson

 

Done in both English and French, the English text being authoritative.

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Gabrielle Kirk McDonald
President

Dated this first day of July 1999
At The Hague,
The Netherlands.

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