Order Reassigning a Pre-appeal Judge

Case No.: IT-98-29-A

THE PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL

Before:
Judge Fausto Pocar, President

Registrar:
Mr. Hans Holthuis

Order of:
22 November 2005

PROSECUTOR

STANISLAV GALIC

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ORDER REASSIGNING A PRE-APPEAL JUDGE

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Counsel for the Appellant:

Ms. Mara Pilipovic
Mr. Stéphane Piletta-Zanin

The Office of the Prosecutor:

Ms. Carla Del Ponte
Ms. Helen Brady

I, FAUSTO POCAR, Presiding Judge of the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Genocide and Other Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of Rwanda and Rwandan Citizens Responsible for Genocide and Other Such Violations Committed in the Territory of Neighbouring States Between 1 January and 31 December 1994 ("International Tribunal"),

NOTING the appeals lodged by Stanislav Galic on 4 May 2004 and The Office of the Prosecutor on 18 December 2003 against the Judgement rendered by the Trial Chamber on 5 December 2003;

CONSIDERING that Rule 65ter of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence ("Rules") read together with Rule 107 of the Rules, authorizes the Presiding Judge of the Appeals Chamber to designate a member of the Appeals Chamber to be responsible for pre-appeal proceedings ("Pre-Appeal Judge");

CONSIDERING Article 14(2) of the Statute of the International Tribunal, which provides that the President of the International Tribunal is ex officio the Presiding Judge of the Appeals Chamber;

NOTING the "Order Assigning Judges to a Case Before the Appeals Chamber and Designating a Pre-Appeal Judge" issued on 18 December 2003, which designated Judge Florence Mumba as Pre-Appeal Judge of the Appeals Chamber in the present case;

NOTING the "Order Replacing a Judge in a Case Before the Appeals Chamber" issued on 18 November 2005, which assigned Judge Mehmet Güney to replace Judge Florence Mumba as Pre-Appeal Judge of the Bench of the Appeals Chamber in the present case;

CONSIDERING the composition of the Appeals Chamber of the International Tribunal as set out in document IT/242, issued on 17 November 2005;

HEREBY REASSIGN, with immediate effect, Judge Theodor Meron as Pre-Appeal Judge in replacement of Judge Mehmet Güney AND ORDER that the Bench in Prosecutor v. Stanislav Galic, Case No. IT-98-29-A, shall be composed as follows:

Judge Fausto Pocar, Presiding

Judge Mohamed Shahabuddeen

Judge Mehmet Güney

Judge Theodor Meron, Pre-Appeal Judge

Judge Wolfgang Schomburg

Done in English and French, the English version being authoritative.

Done this 22^ndday of November 2005,
At The Hague,
The Netherlands.

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Judge Fausto Pocar
President

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