ACTING PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL

Before: Judge Lal Chand Vohrah

Registrar: Mrs. Dorothee de Sampayo Garrido-Nijgh

Order of: 6 August 1999

PROSECUTOR

v.

Dario KORDIC
Mario CERKEZ

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ORDER FOR THE ASSIGNMENT
OF JUDGES TO THE APPEALS CHAMBER

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Office of the Prosecutor:

Mr. Geoffrey Nice
Mr. Kenneth Scott
Ms. Susan Somers
Mr. Patrick Lopez-Terres

Counsel for the Accused Dario Kordic:

Mr. Mitko Naumovski
Mr. David F. Geneson
Ms. Ksenija Turkovic
Mr Robert A. Stein
Mr. Leo Andreis
Mr. Turner T. Smith, Jr.
Mr. Stephen M. Sayers,

Counsel for the Accused Mario Cerkez:

Mr Bozidar Kovacic
Mr. Goran Mikulicic

  

I, Lal Chand Vohrah, Judge 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 ("the International Tribunal"), exercising the functions of the President pursuant to Rule 22 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Tribunal ("the Rules"),

NOTING the "Application for Leave to Pursue an Interlocutory Appeal of the Trial Chamber’s 25 June 1999 Decision Stating Reasons for Trial Chamber’s Ruling of 1 June 1999 Rejecting Defense Motion to Suppress Evidence" filed on 2 July 1999 by Defence Counsel for Dario Kordic ("the Application for Leave to Appeal");

NOTING the "Order of the President for the Assignment of Judges to a Bench of the Appeals Chamber", issued on 26 July 1999;

CONSIDERING that President Gabrielle Kirk McDonald has withdrawn herself from hearing the Application for Leave to Appeal;

HAVING CONSULTED the Judges of the International Tribunal;

CONSIDERING Article 14(3) of the Statute of the International Tribunal and Rules 27 and 73 of the Rules;

PURSUANT to Rule 22 of the Rules;

HEREBY DECIDE to assign Judge Rafael Nieto-Navia to the bench of the Appeals Chamber provided for under Rule 73 of the Rules for the purpose of deciding upon the Application for Leave to Appeal;

AND THEREFORE, subject to sub-Rule 22(B) of the Rules, the Bench of the Appeals Chamber in case IT-95-14/2-AR73.4, the Prosecutor v. Dario Kordic and Mario Cerkez, shall be composed as follows:

Judge Lal Chand Vohrah

Judge Wang Tieya

Judge Rafael Nieto-Navia

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

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Lal Chand Vohrah
Judge

Dated this sixth day of August 1999
At The Hague,
The Netherlands.

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